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
The homicide rate, the privatization of city services, and the coming political and legal fight over pension reform: a roundup of the stories that will be big in the coming year. Read more
List Price: $749,000 The Property: At the Century of Progress World’s Fair held on Chicago’s lakefront from 1933 to 1934, the Federal Housing Administration exhibited a model for a house it hoped to see spring up all over the country. It’s believed that this River Forest residence is that house, rebuilt on a corner lot after the fair... Read more
