List Price: $375,000 The Property: While working for two top Chicago architectural firms in the 1950s and ’60s, Gertrude Lempp Kerbis made contributions to design elements at O’Hare International Airport and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. Today’s tour is at a building that was a benchmark project for her, one that she has said was among the first places where she worked on her own... Read more
One reason frequently given for the substantial drop in America's violent crime rate is lead abatement—a couple decades after it was removed from paint and gas, crime started downwards. But it's still out there, in houses and the soil of big cities, and the more we know about it, the lower the acceptable limits of lead get. Read more
List Price: $3.45 million The Property: Today’s property is a handsome brick home, once the coach house of a large estate, built in Lake View in 1913. And today’s property is a slick contemporary clad in metal shingles and horizontal-laid wood siding built in the past six years in Lake View... Read more
The total comes to 506, an increase of 71 over 2011 and 2010. The conventional wisdom is looking towards weather and the disbanding of specialized gang units as the causes. Can Garry McCarthy keep up his long game on crime through 2013? Read more
