Home prices have dropped 9.3 percent in Chicago over the past year, according to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index. For home-owning Chicagoans, the news could have been worse: the index, which tracks home prices in 20 major U.S. cities, revealed a 17.8 percent year-over-year decline in home prices nationwide.
Another couple of years like this past one, and those [...]
Archive for June 24th, 2008
Chicago Renters Inch Closer to Affording Homes
Posted in Making Ends Meet, tagged Case-Shiller, Chicago, Homes, Rent on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That Shiny Silvery Thing
Posted in Lunch Matters, tagged Chicago, Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, The Bean on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we intended to grab a Signature Salad from Cosi and bring it back to our desk to eat while updating a spreadsheet. But the mild temps, mostly sunny skies and festive atmosphere on the city’s crowded sidewalks put us under a spell, and the next thing we knew we were sitting on the edge [...]
