Feeling down about Chicagoland’s housing costs? Well, there’s a community with more snow, wind, AND higher prices. Finding a place to call home on our planet is quite the decision, fraught with lists and lists of considerations to make before settling in. Mortgages are a pain. Should you go for 15-year fixed or 30-year? Not […]
Death is natural. We all must face it and experience it (in some form or another) during our lives, yet many Americans are terrified of the process; they choose ignorance and denial instead because the finality of death and all the unknowns attached to it are simply too overwhelming to think about. The emerging popularity
Housing developments are popping up all over the country, and it’s no mystery why they’re so appealing to buyers. About 34% of recent buyers who purchased new homes were looking to avoid renovations and problems with plumbing or electricity, but new housing developments can come with a number of conveniences in addition to ease of
As part of Flossmoor District 161’s initiative to increase school safety, they have hired two new security officers from a professional company who will be unarmed and stationed at Parker Junior High School. Parker is the largest school in District 161, with 927 students, and is currently the only one in the district to have security
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was slow to get staffed since the 2016 presidential election. Things are finally picking up the past few months and crucial jobs are getting filled at national and state levels. This is according to Bill Northey, the USDA’s secretary for farm production and conservation. He visited Illinois recently and met
The current retail value of the U.S. coffee market is estimated to be worth approximately $48 million dollars. Coca-Cola has historically done quite well without dipping into the coffee market, but the soda manufacturer and beverage titan just placed a large bet on coffee — a $5.1 billion bet. According to The New York Times,