Granny flats plan moves forward — but aldermanic control is the real sticking point
by Justin Lawrence - Crains Chicago Business July 15, 2025 12:54 PM A final City Council vote on legalizing granny flats and coach houses ci...
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Why Your Air Conditioner Will Not Cool Well When the Temperature is 100°
The reason why your air conditioner can’t keep up with the 100-degree heat wave will not make you happy. It simply is NOT designed to. We have rece...
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Two aldermen want their wards out of Northwest Side anti-gentrification zone
By Dennis Rodkin Crains Chicago Business June 18, 2025 10:01 AM Two members of the Chicago City Council want to remove their wards from being sub...
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Airbnb crackdown stalls in City Council after business pushback
By Justin Laurence Crains Chicago Business June 18, 2025 04:49 PM Chicago’s business community helped stall legislation that would give t...
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Illinois home insurance rates jump 60% in six years, study finds
By Mark Weinraub Crains Chicago Business June 17, 2025 01:47 PM Illinois home insurance rates jumped by nearly 60% between 2019 and 2024, ...
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Downtown rents jump as supply pipeline dries up
By Rachel Herzog Crains Chicago Business June 09, 2025 11:20 AM Renters looking for a downtown apartment this summer can expect fewer opt...
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Homeowners will shoulder bigger share of Chicago property taxes this year
By Danny Ecker May 23, 2025 02:40 PM Chicago homeowners will pick up more of the local property tax tab than commercial landlords in the cit...
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Chicago-area new home sales see one of the strongest first quarters in a decade
By Dennis Rodkin Chicago-area homebuilders had strong sales in the first quarter, one of the two strongest openers to a year in the past decade. Bu...
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Chicago home price growth again doubled the nation's last month
Credit: @properties Christie's International Real Estate This house on Keystone Avenue in River Forest sold in March for $820,000. By Dennis Rodki...
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How the tariff war will impact Chicago's housing market
By Dennis Rodkin, ChicagoBusiness.com Around the same time last week that President Donald Trump was unveiling his worldwide tariff plan, Chicago...
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Chicago home prices are spiking. Here's how they've changed in 25 years.
By Dennis Rodkin Home values in Chicago have doubled over the last 25 years, but nationwide they’ve more than tripled and in some coastal cities th...
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Feds pull grant funding from Illinois fair housing orgs that investigate discrimination
By Lily Carey, Medill Illinois News Bureau March 17, 2025 01:36 PMJohn Petruszak opened his email Feb. 27 to find a message he called “shocking”: t...
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