Archive for March, 2006

With low-rise buildings dating back to the 1800’s, the city has the potential to be a New Urbanist paradise. But as in many other cities that began sprawling outward in the 1970’s, the downtown was long neglected until high hopes for condo development along the riverfront spurred city planners to undertake a major redevelopment effort.
Now, […]

For Sale listings from Craigslist are now in the sidebar. If you want to post your own item for sale do it on Craigslist. It will show up here automatically (if your location is Elgin).

Several years ago, the Chicago Park District expressed an interest in using eminent domain to take over the building to expand nearby Haas Park.
In fact, the park expansion plan kept owner Jim Lapinski from going back to bowling earlier. He wasn’t going to invest money in fixing the place up if it was going […]