Housing Bulletin—Zero-Energy Homes on Chicago’s Far South Side
On what was once a weedy parcel of land in Veterans Park—situated on Chicago’s South Side near where the Skyway crosses above 95th Street—Bernie Schmidt has built the first of what he hopes will be 20 midsize homes that use no electricity from the utility grid. If completed on the linear plot of land adjacent to rows of tidy bungalows, the subdivision, called Solar Verde Estates, will be the city’s first zero-energy block…