Long known as a city of neighborhoods, Chicago is rapidly becoming a city of neighborhood farms. On top of the countless backyard and community gardens that dot the city, several larger-scale agricultural ventures are underway... Read more
A 16-room house on two and a half acres in Naperville sold in late May for $3.089 million. That’s the highest price paid for a home in that city since September 2008, when an estate on the same street sold for $4.95 million. At that time, this house was also for sale, with an asking price of $5.2 million. It remained on the market until it was finally sold this spring—at 59 percent of its original price... Read more