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2 months ago | 
forestparkreview.com | Lacey Sikora
rates have kept some homeowners in their homes longer than expected and made it harder for new buyers to get into the market. Fewer people selling means more competition for buyers who are offering higher prices to get into a home. In 2024, Chicago-area single-family home prices rose 8% areawide, but that increase was a lot larger in Oak Park, River Forest and Forest Park.
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2 months ago | 
austinweeklynews.com | Lacey Sikora
Preservation Chicago last week announced its annual Chicago 7 list, identifying the city’s most endangered historic buildings. Prominent on the list is the only home designed on the West Side by Frank Lloyd Wright. The future of the dilapidated home is precarious. Since 2003 the non-profit group, which advocates for historic preservation, has sounded the alarm on local historic buildings that are in danger of being lost.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
oakpark.com | Lacey Sikora
The Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission denied a proposal last week that would add a 10-story, art deco-style addition behind the landmark Boulevard Arcade Building.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
forestparkreview.com | Lacey Sikora
In just a few weeks, the L’Arche community will be welcoming residents to its first newly built house in the Chicago area. The south Oak Park house benefits from sustainable measures, and when the residents move in this December, in keeping with L’Arche principles, the house will embody what it means to be a home.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
rblandmark.com | Lacey Sikora
In the early 1900’s the near-west suburbs of Chicago were a hotbed of architectural innovation. Young Frank Lloyd Wright was designing homes in and around his Home and Studio in Oak Park and his studio nurtured the talents of many prominent architects and designers. One of Wright’s grandest designs, the Avery Coonley House in Riverside, sparked more Prairie Style buildings in the suburbs. Built between 1908 and 1912, the estate is just one of three multi-building complexes built by Wright.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
austinweeklynews.com | Lacey Sikora
The J.J. Walser House at 42 N. Central Ave. in Austin is in need of a savior. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903, the home is an early example of Wright’s Prairie Style. The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is working with members of the Austin community to save the house and ensure its survival. Designed for printing company executive Jospeh Jacob Walser, the home is one of only five existing Wright-designed Prairie structures in Chicago.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
rblandmark.com | Lacey Sikora
Riverside resident Michelangelo Sabatino has a deep interest in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the famed architect who shaped Chicago’s skyline. His new book, The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture, examines the work of the German-born architect through the lens of the modern home he designed in Plano, Illinois (1945-1951) for Edith Farnsworth, a physician.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
forestparkreview.com | Lacey Sikora
As co-founders of interior design firm North & Madison, Robin Flaherty and Jess Milburn have been teaming up to bring their signature brand of colorful interiors to the western suburbs and Chicago area for seven years. Two recent projects – one in River Forest and one in Forest Park – showcase the duo’s skills in transforming a variety of homes. In River Forest, a working mom of four sought their services to update her historic house.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Lacey Sikora
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
forestparkreview.com | Lacey Sikora
A recent analysis of the 2024 housing market by Forbes predicts that the spring market might not be free of the problems that hampered the 2023 market. Marked by high mortgage rates, rising home prices and record-low housing stock, the 2023 market made it hard for new home buyers to get their feet in the door.
