#West Chicago Home Remodeling

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This is lovely- it’s a condo, built in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois. It has 1bd. 1ba. and is $275K - $290K  mo. HOA fee.

It’s like a mini historic home . The living room has a beautiful original fireplace and look at the millwork. 

Everything is original. There’s even a built-in china cabinet in the dining room.

The kitchen is new. It’s not very large, but it’s got a cozy counter seating area.

The bd. is very nice.

The bath was completely remodeled.

And, the units have nice little decks on the back, but it also looks like there’s a park or a common area outside.

https://www.compass.com/listing/2139-west-cortez-street-unit-2-chicago-il-60622/1271860471762010761/

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Top Things to Do in San Jose, CA

Introduction

San Jose, CA is a city of many wonders. While known as the Capital of Silicon Valley and home to some of the world's biggest tech companies, it's also an exciting place to visit. Here are 5 things to do in San Jose that you won't want to miss:

Chinatown

Chinatown is one of the oldest Chinatowns in the United States. It's a great place to visit for its architecture and culture, as well as its food. There are many restaurants and shops worth exploring.

Chinatown has been around since 1848, when Chinese immigrants first came here looking for work on California's railroads and farms. Many stayed after completing their contracts because they didn't want to return home or they were barred from re-entering China by officials there (it was illegal for foreigners).

Winchester Mystery House

Winchester Mystery House is a well-known tourist attraction in San Jose, California. It was commissioned by Sarah Winchester and is widely believed to be haunted by ghosts.

The house has 160 rooms and staircases leading nowhere, doors that open onto walls or ceilings, windows that look out onto other rooms than those they're in and even a secret passageway connecting it to another building on the property (which was never completed).

Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Located in the San Francisco Bay, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a great place to see wildlife. The refuge is open year-round and offers hiking trails, biking trails and boardwalks for visitors to enjoy.

San Jose Museum of Art

The San Jose Museum of Art is located at 110 S. Market St., and it's open to the public Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The cost of admission is $17 for adults, $15 for seniors (65+) and students, $11 for children ages 6-17 years old and free to kids under 6 years old.

The museum features an impressive collection of more than 28,000 works including paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso as well as sculptures from Rodin and Degas pieces in its permanent collection on display year-round in three galleries: European Painting & Sculpture; American Art; Modern & Contemporary Art; Photography & Video; Asian Art; Latin American Art; African Art; Oceania/Pacific Islands/American Indian Cultures & Native American Arts; Textiles & Fashion Designers Collections

Fairmont Heritage Place Shops & Restaurants, San Jose, California

Fairmont Heritage Place Shops & Restaurants is a shopping center in San Jose, California. It's located at 700 E. Santa Clara Street and is a mixed-use development with shops and restaurants. The Fairmont Hotel was built on this site in 1911 and became the first high-rise hotel west of Chicago when it opened its doors in 1912. After being remodeled several times, the building was given historic landmark status by the city of San Jose in 1987; today it houses both residential apartments above retail spaces below ground level (and even more apartments above those).

The Tech Museum of Innovation

The Tech Museum of Innovation is a popular museum in San Jose. It's located in the heart of downtown, and it has many exhibits that are interactive and educational. If you're looking for a place to take the kids to learn about technology, this is a great choice!

If you want something more exciting than just a museum (although there are plenty of those here too), check out these other things:

There are many things to do in San Jose!

There are many things to do in San Jose!

Some of the things you can do are: Chinatown, Winchester Mystery House, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, San Jose Museum of Art and Fairmont Heritage Place Shops & Restaurants.

Conclusion

San Jose is a great place to visit! There are so many things to do, from visiting historic sites and learning about local culture to experiencing nature and enjoying fine dining. We hope this list will inspire you to explore all that San Jose has to offer.

Moving Company

San Jose is a beautiful city with tons of great restaurants. We hope this guide has helped you narrow down your options and decide where to go next time you visit our beautiful city. If you're moving to or from San Jose, CA, and need a reliable moving company that can get the job done right, look no further than A-1 Movers. We have over 50 years of experience in the industry and we work hard to provide our customers with exceptional service. Our staff is highly trained and experienced in all aspects of residential and commercial moving; we'll help you pack up your belongings before they even arrive at your new home or office! You can find us online using these keywords movers, movers San Jose, moving company, moving company San Jose, and Bay Area Movers.

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Plumbers Services Companies Kane County

PBG Plumbing is one of the most trustworthy plumbers services companies Kane County with an excellent track record in top-quality plumbing services and installation works.www.pbgplumbing.com

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Lighting designer.

“Turn up the lights in here baby. Extra bright, I want y'all to see this” - Kanye West “All of the Lights”

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Take Tour of  McCormick Place

McCormick Area is the biggest convention center in The United States and Canada. [2] It includes 4 interconnected structures as well as one indoor arena sited on as well as near the shore of Lake Michigan, regarding 2 mi (3.2 kilometres) south of midtown Chicago, Illinois, USA. McCormick Location hosts many trade shows and conferences. The biggest routine occasions are the Chicago Automobile Show each February, the International House and Housewares Show each March as well as the National Restaurant Organization Yearly Show each May and the International Production Innovation Show in the autumn every other year.

McCormick Area is the largest convention center in the Western Hemisphere, with 2.6 million square feet of conference and exhibit area. It's comprised of 4 structures: the West, South, and also North Buildings, as well as Lakeside Center. Together, these buildings offer: 173 conference room using 600,000 square feet of space 4 ballrooms ranging from 21,000 to 100,000 square feet Assembly seats for 18,000 people 10,000 seat sector (Wintrust Field). 4,192 seat movie theater (Arie Crown). 3 movie theaters seating 300 each. Simply opened in 2019, the ABC Structure is a historic building that has been remodelled to give meeting rooms and also event space.

The whole McCormick Location campus is linked by dramatic pedestrian boardwalks and sky bridges as well as has greater than 100 items of public art, producing a special experience. What's more, McCormick Area is the biggest green-certified convention facility in North America. The center offsets 100 percent of its electricity use with clean, budget friendly wind power, while the LEED Licensed West Structure features the Midwest's largest farm-to-fork rooftop yard, planted in collaboration with the Chicago Botanic Garden to provide McCormick Location dining establishments.

WINTRUST ARENA

Wintrust Arena is a spectacular 10,000-seat room with a floor area of 18,000 square feet. Given that opening up in 2017, the Wintrust Sector has actually come to be a premier multi-purpose occasion facility created to be an adaptable room that can host personal performances to basic sessions, as well as various other unique events.

The sector consists of 479 club seats and also 22 suites. Eight are 16-person collections, while the staying 14 suit 12 individuals each. Suites function providing solutions as well as private bars as well as washrooms. The arena is linked by pedestrian boardwalks as well as sky bridges to the rest of McCormick Location as well as the resorts.

Along with holding a year-round schedule of showing off events, performances, family programs, and conventions, Wintrust Sector is the home court for both the DePaul College Blue Demons as well as the Chicago Sky WNBA group. The building is particularly fit for uses that include general sessions as well as convention closing events, such as performances.

MCCORMICK AREA NORTH

The McCormick Area North enhancement features 705,000 square feet of exhibition area that can be made use of individually or in conjunction with McCormick Location South and/or McCormick Location Shore Facility. Sky bridges connect to the Lakeside Center and also the McCormick Location South.

Additional event room specifics consist of:. Display room: Hall B-- 496,000 square feet, divisible by two; Hall C-- 209,000 square feet, divisible by two. Grand rout entrance hall: 35,836 square feet, which can be made use of for registration. Satisfying areas: 84,603 square feet, totaling 29 areas, with the adhering to abilities:. 70 to 666-seat theater. 36 to 333-seat class. 32 to the 400-seat reception. Dining: Two full-size dining establishments.

MCCORMICK LOCATION SOUTH

McCormick Location South includes 840,000 square feet of display space with moveable partitions (Hall A1 as well as Hall A2) and is linked to McCormick Area North and McCormick Area West by a glass-enclosed Grand Rout. When made use of along with McCormick Place North, the display space can cover 1.2 million square feet on one degree.

McCormick Area South includes 100-foot ceilings, a 900-foot sidewalk that includes a business center, site visitor info booth, as well as various other amenities, and also skies bridges that attach to McCormick Location Shore Center, McCormick Location North, and McCormick Location West.

Additional event room specifics consist of:. Grand Ballroom: 33,740 square feet (Level 1), with the adhering to capacities:. 2,998-seat theatre. 1,499-seat classroom. 1,800-seat banquet.

View Ballroom: 21,365 square feet with sights of Lake Michigan (Degree 4), and also the following capabilities:. 1,898-seat theater. 948-seat classroom. 1,129-seat reception.

Satisfying areas: 156,000 square feet, completing 43 spaces, with the following capacities:. 141 to 596-seat theatre. 70 to 297-seat class. 84 to the 357-seat banquet. Eating: 16,000-square-foot food court, including a fine eating restaurant and bar.

MCCORMICK AREA WEST

Whether you're hosting 200 people or 20,000, McCormick Location West is simply the best size, including 406,000 square feet of display room. The whole structure was especially created to adapt to different needs, never ever really feeling as well huge or as well little, while always promoting social communication as well as comfort. Further occasion space specifics consist of:. Fulfilling spaces: 61 Wi-Fi geared up meeting rooms, completing 250,000 square feet of meeting room. Horizon Ballroom: 100,000 square feet. The Sky line Ballroom can be split right into five areas that can be set up in 15 different means. At maximum theatre-style seats, capability is 11,500 visitors.

Rooftop garden: As the Midwest's biggest farm-to-fork rooftop garden, grown in partnership with the Chicago Botanic Garden to supply McCormick Place dining establishments, this area has a capacity of 800 visitors for a reception and also 300 visitors for a sit-down occasion. Stacey Kimmons and also Audra Lewicki harvest lettuce at the Chicago Botanic Garden's 20,000-square-foot vegetable garden atop McCormick Place West in Chicago. Eating: Top-notch food solution varying from on-floor catering to great dining as well as a contemporary bar.

Transportation: The Transportation Center located in the heart of the building is connected to a specialized busway for traveling to and from downtown hotels. This busway includes digital arrival/departure details as well as adequate area for 16 buses to arrive/depart all at once.

Various other services: 36 vehicle berths developed for simple move-in and also move-out.

MCCORMICK AREA LAKESIDE CENTER

Lakeside Facility (previously the East Structure) opened up in the initial McCormick Location framework. It includes 583,000 square feet of exhibit area, as well as has been retrofitted to fulfill the requirements of a selection of different groups in the mid-sized as well as growing occasion market. A sky bridge on Level 3 attaches Lakeside Center to McCormick Place South and McCormick Location North.

Additional occasion room specifics consist of:. Hall D: 300,000 square feet, divisible by two (Level 3). Lakeside Ballroom: 44,754 square feet, divisible right into two just as sized rooms (Level 2). Arie Crown Movie theater: America's largest, top-notch theatre, with a capacity of 4,249. Satisfying spaces: 141,000 square feet, totaling 40 spaces, with the following capabilities:. 34 to a 1,500-seat theatre. 18 to 726-seat classroom. 24 to the 968-seat banquet.

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Belmont and Clark

I clicked the link Meg sent me, and saw the headline I’d dreaded for years: Demolition Underway at Corner of Belmont and Clark. I read the article, and read another, earlier article on the same topic. I’ll spare you the dull details, but the gist is this—all the buildings on the corner of Belmont and Clark are being bulldozed to make space for some hulking monstrosity of glass and steel, yet another ugly, shiny building where rich people can live, park, eat, and shop. (Just think! One day rich people might be able to live in a completely encapsulated world and not have to breathe the same air as us riffraff!)

I cried a little, and then I got angry. Later that night, I drank whiskey and tried to explain to my partner why I was so upset. My partner attempted to placate me by telling me that it didn’t matter if they tore those buildings down or covered up that parking lot (don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone—they’re building over my favorite parking lot), because the memories will live on in my heart. “No!” I shouted. “You don’t fucking get it!” “I don’t want the memories! I want my Punkin’ Donuts!”

* * *

I’m not drunk, or as emotional as I was that night, but to tell you the truth I don’t know if I can explain anything. I can’t explain why I loved that street and that corner so much. I can’t explain why I’m so fucking pissed that they’re erecting this new building. I know I shouldn’t be this upset. Like I said, I dreaded that headline for years; part of me knew it was coming. My favorite cafe—which had been across the street from Egor’s Dungeon—shut down in 2001 and by 2002 was a trendy shoe boutique (now, it’s a gyro place). Punkin’ Donuts became a combined Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins in 2003, and at the same time they started having attendants patrol the parking lot (not that that did much to dissuade either teenage loiterers or drunken brawlers)—and I was mad about that. I wrote about it in the final issue of Safety Pin Girl. I called it the “Death March of Progress.” Less than a year later, Clarke’s remodeled and tried to make themselves seem fancier by doing things like having Daily Specials (but a diner where drunks and weirdos congregate that has Daily Specials is still a diner where drunks and weirdos congregate). Condos and other signs of gentrification started appearing on Belmont a decade ago, and I wrote about that, too: I kicked at the walls of condominiums that now rise to great and ugly heights on the spots where there were once little stores, cozy walkups, and greasy spoons.

So I sorta saw it coming. Not to mention, I never lived in the Belmont/Clark neighborhood, and I haven’t really hung out there since early 2009. Why, then, does this feel like a great personal loss? Why do a few overpriced and overrated “punk rock” shops and a shitty parking lot in front of a crappy chain donut joint still feel so much like home? 

* * *

The closest I got to living in the neighborhood of Belmont and Clark was the apartment I lived in during the first half of 2004. It was just off Belmont, but about two miles farther west, much closer to Western than to Clark. That was close enough. On chill winter days, I hopped on the bus (the Belmont bus!) and rode east, disembarked across from Clarke’s. That was around the time they were trying to make the place a little more upscale, and Maggie and I bitched about it. “Clarke’s sucks now,” we said. “Why do we still go there?” One night, we went to Clarke’s for fries and coffee ‘cause we had nothing better to do, and we ran into a group of old friends and new friends and realized that was why we still went there. Because everyone in town went to Clarke’s. Because none of them had anything better to do, either.

On warm spring days, I took a travel mug full of iced coffee and wandered on foot, no hurry. Sometimes I’d stop to roll a cigarette or browse in a record or bookstore—to drool over all the things I’d’ve bought if I had money to spare. I’d stop and talk to strangers, maybe stop for a bite to eat if I’d scrounged up enough change from my coin jar. Mostly, I just wandered—I had no money to spare but all the free time in the world. I was young and broke and unemployed, and something about swaggering down Belmont in the springtime sunlight made me feel good about being young and broke and unemployed.

And on warm spring nights, Maggie and I hopped astride our bikes and headed east. We sang along to the songs that blared through the shitty handheld tape player she’d duct-taped to her handlebars, and flipped off pedestrians who told us to get off the sidewalk, or flipped off drivers who almost hit us when we rode in the street. Sometimes we stopped at Clarke’s, other times we kept going, and I swear if Lake Michigan weren’t there we could’ve ridden forever. 

* * *

See, my love runs the length of Belmont, from California Avenue east to the lake. It runs from the corner of Belmont and Clark northwest to Cabaret Metro, despite the existence of Wrigley Field and its attendant Cubs fans. And that one little area, from the Belmont Red/Brown/Purple Line stop to the corner, and around the corner to The Alley, is the nexus. It is where my love is at its highest proof.

My love for those streets and the place where they intersect is a swig of cheap vodka. It’s a gut feeling, a flutter and a punch. It is something I’ve been trying to explain for years, which is why I write about it so often. In a piece I wrote years ago, I said: Belmont Avenue is my favorite fucking street in the whole world. I read it at a zine reading, and some people teased me, told me that Belmont was cheesy and overrated. One friend said: “I used to love Belmont, but after I got a citation for smoking cigarettes on the Red Line platform, my enthusiasm waned.” I only smiled and nodded, because those people obviously didn’t get it. I knew Belmont was cheesy and overrated. I loved it anyway. And no matter what fucked-up shit happened to me in that neighborhood, I continued to love it. I continued to love it because…and here, wait, could it be? I finally have an explanation:

It was the first place where I felt comfortable in my skin, accepted and celebrated as a weird artsy kid and as a punk. You know, I could sit on the filthy sidewalk for hours, chain-smoking and writing in my journal, and no one thought I was pretentious or a nerd. I could wear my blue hoodie covered in shoddily sewn-on patches and more often than not, someone would say to me: “Hey, I love that band,” and I’d make a new friend. And it was the first place where I felt accepted not only as a weird artsy punk, but as a queer person. Because there were gay bars, there were same-gender couples kissing and holding hands, there were boys in lipstick and high heels and girls with shaved heads and hairy armpits. So the story of my love for those streets is also a queer coming-of-age story. And it is the story of the girls I knew.

When I think of my days and nights on Belmont and Clark, I remember the girls. Oh, there were boys, boys I dated and slept with and had crushes on; boys I met on Belmont Avenue or hung out with there—but the girls are the ones that stand out in my mind. Girls who were my friends, girls who were my lovers and significant others, girls I only saw once.

There was Annie, my first real-life girlfriend, the person who first took me to Belmont. We walked around holding hands. We went to thriftshops and punk clothing shops; we modeled clothing for each other, bought jars of our favorite Manic Panic hair color—hers Carnation Pink, mine Pillarbox Red. We got coffee from the Punkin’ Donuts to warm our hands against the raw-wet late-winter wind. When I was brave enough, I kissed her and felt a warmth tingle my veins, a warmth greater than any that coffee could produce.

There were the older punk rock girls I met in the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot that first time I was in Chicago all on my own. They were glorious in their spiky, neon-colored hair, their tight jeans and short skirts, their high-top Chucks. We walked together to the MTX/Queers show; they gave me sips of their booze and shouted down catcalling Cubby Bros.

There was Beagan, who sat with me on the summer sidewalks, smoking cigarettes; who walked with me in the soft snow flurries of two-days-before-Christmas. We kissed and giggled. We pointed out the passersby we thought were cute, and assured one another we’d always think the other was the cutest one of all.

There were the girls of my Kokomo Caffe days: Schuyler, who I encountered my first time there. She charmed me with her stick ’n’ poke tattoos and her messed-up hair and her brash attitude. I played “Rebel Rebel” on the jukebox, she knew all the words, and I was in a whirl. Polly, the gorgeous old-school gothpunk. She had flawless Cleopatra eyeliner, her favorite bands were The Slits and The Damned, and she always offered me one of her clove cigarettes (which she kept in a silver case, shaped like a coffin). Winnie, with her shock of red hair and a smile like a match-flare. She gave the best hugs, they were one of the things that helped pull me through that hellish time in my life. Parker—we were both white girls with Chelsea haircuts and steel-toed boots. We bonded over trying to find ways to show the world that, though we looked like skin byrds, we definitely weren’t byrds of the Nazi variety. The girl whose name I never knew—I thought for sure she was gay or bi. She always made eyes at me. She had a leather jacket and a fucking rainbow mohawk. Then I found out she was not a queer punk, she was a Christian punk; she wasn’t trying to flirt with me, she was trying to convert me.

There was Latisha. Though we were on-again/off-again as a couple, there was never any bad blood between us. The night we met, we hung out on Belmont. We went into sex shops where we annoyed the employees by tickling each other with feather dusters and trying out various floggers and whips. We went into clothing stores; I bought a purple plaid dress that I wish I’d held on to, though I’m sure it wouldn’t fit me—it was too tight and too short even then. We parted ways, that night, at the El station—she had to get on the southbound Red Line, I had to board the northbound Brown Line. As we stood on opposite platforms, waiting for our trains, we blew kisses to each other and waved at one another with imaginary perfume-scented handkerchiefs. Over the next four years, much of our time together was spent on that street. We yelled at cops who harassed the homeless who gathered on bus benches and in the Dunkin’ parking lot. Some nights, we got coffee at Clarke’s after queer punk shows. This was when I was young and brazen enough to consider a second-hand slip and torn-up fishnets appropriate show attire, and I know all eyes were on us when we spilled into the diner on those nights—scruffy punk girl me, falling out of my slip, high femme Latisha with her high high heels and her pin-up girl dresses, both of us half-drunk, with make-up smeared by pogo-sweat. Other nights, we danced at the Belmont gay bars. Our favorite nights were ‘80s nights, when we could writhe, melodramatic and strange, to new wave and New Romance. Sometimes we did shots with drag queens. Sometimes one or the other of us picked up a hot butch and left with them, or let them fuck us in the bathroom. Usually, we just danced; usually, we went home together.

Once, walking down Belmont with a friend of mine, a punk girl looked me up and down, from the top of my short black hair to the booted toes of my red and black striped tights. She gave me such a lustful look that my friend turned to me and said: “Damn. That girl looked at you the way a Gossip song sounds.”

There was Filia—every time she visited my neck of the woods, we bummed around Belmont and Clark. Usually, it was summer. We drank iced coffees until we thought we might puke. We smoked endless cigarettes, though the sodden summer air was so thick in our lungs we choked on it. We ogled skinheads and picked up bottle caps we found on the ground. We sang “Summer in the City” at the top of our lungs, convinced that a Chicago punk band should cover it because it was the anthem of Belmont in the summer, and the backs of our necks were dirty and gritty. Babe, don’t you know it’s a pity…

There was Maggie, who I mentioned above, my long-time partner-in-crime from the moment we met. Maggie and I on the bus, on our bikes, on foot. Maggie and I headed east on Belmont. Maggie and I stopping into Schuba’s to drink afternoon beers and take silly photobooth pictures. Maggie and I staying up all night at Clarke’s, or loitering in the parking lot of the Punkin’ Donuts. Maggie and I stopping into Blue Havana to buy Bali Shag; Blue Havana which we referred to as HomoSmoke, because everyone who worked there was gay as hell. There was a cute butch gal who worked there, she had a tiny ‘hawk and a face full of piercings and we both awkwardly attempted to flirt with her. Maggie and I—I’ll stop now, because I have so many Maggie/Belmont memories that I could fill up a whole fuckin’ book with those.

And there were others. Other girl friends and girlfriends, other girls I flirted with, other girls I was too nervous to even talk to. Out-of-town pals I took to Belmont when they came to visit, and in-town friends who loved that neighborhood almost as much as I did. Zine-writing girls and rock’n’roll girls. Goth girls and punk girls. Girls with mohawks and girls with dreadlocks and fuzzy-headed baby dykes. Tattoo artists and hairstylists and baristas and diner waitresses. I love(d) them all.

* * *

After I read the articles, I read the comments. The commenters fell into three different categories. 1. The balanced, rational people. They said they were ambivalent about the proposed building but thought that progress was good for the neighborhood. 2. Those who said: “Good riddance! There are muggings in that neighborhood that are probably perpetrated by the teenagers who loiter in that parking lot!” Those who said: adios crappy Dunkin' Donuts and nasty Ally [sic] building. That corner has been nothing but a hangout for hookers and troublemakers for years. 3. The nostalgia-keepers, who shared stories of hanging out there before and after punk shows or raves. They said: “Yeah, there were problems, but the place had character.” Someone responded to one of the nostalgia-keepers, and said: are you saying you are sad to see a dunkin donuts [sic] and its parking lot go? If so, that’s fucking weird.

Well, then I’m fucking weird, too. I could try and give you some arguments against gentrification, some reasoning behind why I think it’s important to leave a space for the wacky teenagers and their crime, for the troublemakers and the hookers, because that’s part of what’s making me angry. What I’m even angrier about is that they’re destroying a piece of my history, and I don’t like change. I like change when it means gaining new experiences and interests and friends, but when it means losing people and places? Fuck that. I get grumpy when places I love get remodeled, and I get downright livid when they’re torn down. I can’t remember the last time a girl looked at me the way a Gossip song sounds, and most of the girls I mentioned above are no longer part of my life. I’m fucking selfish, and if I can’t have the girls and the moments back, well—I would rather see those buildings and businesses vacant and crumbling than see them razed. That way, at least, they would stand as a monument to my past. That way, I could visit them and see the ghost of my old self peering out from the empty windows, my old self with her slip-dress and her smeared make-up, her endless cigarettes and scribbled notebooks, gazing out the windows, waiting for the girl(s) she loved to pass by.

My partner was right, in a sense. The memories do live on in my heart. All the girls, all the people I encountered near that corner, will live in the Belmont and Clark of my heart forever. All the people and a hundred moments and a thousand small things. The cracked sidewalks covered in broken glass, the secret graffiti, the heavy silver-green trees of Chicago in the summer. The stench of car fumes and donut grease and diner grease, cigarette smoke and beer and that weedy lake-smell when the wind is blowing in from the east. The abrasive honking of taxis, drunks singing their favorite songs, “Belmont is next. Doors open on the left at Belmont.” Sometimes, I think I’m okay with everything going away from me forever—girls, places, everything—but right now, I’m not. It’s all tattooed on my fucking heart, but that’s not good enough.

I want a tattoo of the CTA map, with the Belmont stop blown up bigger than the rest. I want a brick from the rubble of Blue Havana and Architectural Revolution. I want to stand on the corner and chug a 40 oz. of Old Style; I want to pour the dregs onto the cracked hot sidewalk. I want to scream: “Fuck Building a New Chicago! I want the old one back!” I want to sing, with Chain and the Gang backing me up: “Devitalize!” I want to save that brick from the rubble of my past, and when they build that hideous new building, I want to send it hurtling through the shiny windows. Attached will be a note that reads: “Fuck you. You’ll never fucking get it.”

—Jessie Lynn McMains [originally published as a mini-zine in early 2015; also appears in the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Punk]

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John Wayne Gacy:

“I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license.” -- John Wayne Gacy, “A clown can get away with murder.” -- John Wayne Gacy. Who is John Wayne Gacy?  What makes him a serial killer? How was he caught? American serial killer whose killings of 33 boys and young men in the 1970s attracted international media coverage and stunned his affluent Chicago neighborhood, where he was renowned for his sociability and success as a clown at charitable events and children's parties.

Gacy was raised into a blue-collar family and seems to have had a pretty ordinary upbringing. Yet he displayed an increasing inclination towards sadism, which resulted in a number of experiences with the law in the 1960s. In 1968, after his accusation that he had sexually assaulted a teenage boy, he was sentenced to the Iowa State Men's Reformatory (Anamosa State Penitentiary) and forced to undergo psychological evaluation. Following his release in 1970 and while still on parole, he was again arrested for sexual assault, but the charges were dropped later. In December 1978, the police found the first of 29 bodies buried in the affluent billionaire John Wayne Gacy's estate—26 in the crawl space beneath his residence in Norwood Park Township, and three more outside the building. He admitted to four further victims ' killings discovered in the waters south of Chicago. Forty years later, here's a roadmap to Gacy's trial, prosecution and execution, and ongoing attempts to identify the other six missing survivors. Gacy then became a fairly successful independent contractor and bought a house in Chicago's suburbs.

In 1975 teens in the uptown community inform the Chicago police that a man named "John" is circling the city in his car to pick up young people. It's John Wayne Gacy, a suburban man who runs a remodeling company. Officers are watching dozens of young men in and out of Gacy's house in Norwood Park Township. They're stopping many of them for questioning, but they don't say anything against Gacy. He is popular in his family to hold get-togethers and sometimes dress up as Pogo the Clown. In January of 1976 the police stake out John Wayne Gacy’s Home. Suspecting that Gacy might be responsible for the disappearance of a 9-year-old boy, the Chicago Police Youth Division is monitoring his house just east of O'Hare International Airport, although it is outside their jurisdiction. They're not in a position to make a case against Gacy.

“No, I don't think that's possible. I think it...after 14 years under truth serum had I committed the crime I would have known it. There's got to be something that would... would click in my mind. I've had photos of 21 of the victims and I've looked at them all over the years here and I've never recognized anyone of them.” -- John Wayne Gacy. Then in March of 1977 Gacy was suspected by police of a sexual assault. Twenty-seven-year-old North Sider Jeff Rignall says that Gacy lured him into his car by offering him marijuana before using chloroform to make him unconscious. Rignall claims Gacy then brought him to his home, arrested him, then sexually assaulted him before he let him leave. A $3,000 civil suit was dismissed in the incident. On December 31st, 1977 police had seized Gacy but then released him. He was charged by Chicago police when a 19-year-old North Side youth claims he was kidnapped by a gunpoint guy and compelled to participate in sexual acts. The police document reveals that when he was brought into custody, Gacy acknowledged that he was participating in activities with the youth—and their brutality—but declined to encourage the child to participate. The Deputy State Attorney chooses not to charge Gacy.

In December 11, 1978 a young boy by the name Robert Piest who was a 15-year-old sophomore at Maine West High School goes missing. Piest says to his mother to wait for a couple of minutes, because he has to see a man who pays 5 $/hour for a construction job, almost twice as much as he does in the drug store. But he has not been seen again. Then on December 12th, 1978 Lt. Kozenczak, whose son is attending the same high school as Piest, is insisting on a thorough investigation. He learns that Gacy, whose PDM Contractors had recently remodeled Nisson Pharmacy, was the man Piest went to talk about a job. Gacy was then asked to come to the station for investigation.

The next day on December 13th, 1978 Gacy leads police to a search warrant because he denied everything he was being charged with. Later investigators discover that Gacy's car was towed at 2 a.m. from a snowbank. On the Tri-State Tollway north of Ogden Avenue— about 38 miles north of where Gacy later claimed to have dumped the body of Piest. The tow truck company's reports help investigators assess the moment Gacy disposed of the youth's body within an hour. Around 3:20 a.m., Gacy marches with mud on his pants and shoes to the Des Plaines police station. He asks for a conversation with Kozenczak but is told to return later. He returns and gives a brief statement to the officers. Kozenczak asks Gacy to give him a search warrant for the keys to his house. Gacy is protesting but giving up his keys. Then December 21st, 1978 Gacy was arrested. Gacy is seen as passing a package containing cannabis to a gas station clerk while under police surveillance. According to Gacy, then arrested. Investigators were informed that Gacy has already confirmed that he has conducted "maybe 30" killings to his attorney. With Gacy in custody, police from Des Plaines and investigators from the office of Cook County sheriff get a warrant and enter Gacy's one-story. Police accuse Gacy against his will to hold Piest there and threaten to tear the floor to find the body of the teen. Gacy denies that Piest is there but says he was forced to kill a self-defense man and buried him under his garage's concrete floor. He directs police to the driveway and labels the place on the ground where the corpse is found with a can of spray paint., ranch-style house again.

On December 22nd, 1978 Gacy Finally confesses. "(Gacy's) giving all kinds of statements, saying there's a body here, a body there, a body in a lake or a lagoon, a body buried.” -- Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod. In a rambling, repetitive speech that continues for several hours, Gacy tells police that after having sex with them, he murdered 32 young men. He speaks about himself in the third person, claiming "Jack" or "John" performed the murders and sex acts. He claims he hid the corpses of 27 people on his estate (29 would be found), most of them in the crawl space. Five other corpses (four would be found by police), including Piest's, have been dumped into waterways south of Chicago, claims Gacy. He sketches a diagram showing where the bodies are buried, offering six of his victims ' addresses. Gacy was convicted of the assassination of Piest, although the corpse of the teenager was not identified.  December 26, 1978 the police find eight bodies in the crawlspace in Gacy’s home; but nine bodies were recovered. " ... one of the most horrendous (cases) I have ever had anything to do with."-- Cook County State's Attorney Bernard Carey. eight so far from the crawl space in the northeast quarter of the house, in an area under the office where Gacy conducted his remodeling business.

The Police have found thirty-two bodies but only five were not identified. The victims of John Wayne Gacy are: John Butkovich (18 years old), James Mazzara (20 years old), Frank Landingin (19 years old), Gregory Godzik ( 17 years old), John Szye (19 years old), Rick Johnston (17 years old), Timothy Jack McCoy (16 years old), Michael Bonnin (17 years old), Robert Gilroy (18 years old), Jon Prestidge (20 years old), Russell Nelson (21-22 years old), Victim No. 28 (14-18 years old), Victim No. 5 (22-32 years old), Darrel Samson (19 years old), Samuel Stapleton (14 years old), Randall Reffett (15 years old), William Carroll (16 years old), Victim No. 26 (22-30 years old), Jimmy Haakenson (16 years old), Victim No. 21 (21-27 years old), William George Bundy (19 years old). Michael Marino (14 years old), Kenneth Parker (16 years old), Victim No. 10 (17-21 years old), Matthew Bowman (18 years old), John Mowery (19 years old), Robert Winch (18 years old), Tommy Boling (20 years old), David Talsma (20 years old), William Kindred (19 years old), Timothy O’Rourke (20 years old), and Robert Piest (15 years old).

"I don't know what this trial cost. Whatever the cost, it was a small price. My voice is cracking because I really feel it's a small price we pay for our freedom. What we do for the John Gacy’s of this world, we will do for everyone." -- Judge Louis Garippo. March 13th, 1980 John Wayne Gacy has been sentenced to death. Judge Garippo imposes an execution date for John Wayne Gacy for June 2, 1980, but the penalty is indefinitely postponed while the case is brought before the Supreme Court of Illinois. On May 15th,1980 Gacy’s Lawyers; Sam Amirante and Robert Motta who have been paid each of the amount of $44,424 for defending Gacy have withdrawn from the case and then they billed the county $57,603 for expenses. Then his judge-Judge Garippo resigns from the bench after twelve years as a Cook County Judge to go into private practice. "If his lawyers believed that deluging the court with paper at the last instant would lead us to delay the execution in order to have more time to read the documents, they were mistaken."-- Judge Frank Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals. Gacy finally died after a lethal injection of drugs at 12:58 a.m., with all his civil challenges rejected. At the Corrections Facility in Stateville near Joliet and Fried chicken and butterfly shrimp was his last meal.

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 Jenkins, John Philip. “John Wayne Gacy.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 31 Oct. 2019. Web. 14 Dec. 2019.

Rumore, Kori and Kyle Bentle. "Here are John Wayne Gacy's victims - Chicago Tribune." Chicago Tribune: Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment. 17 Dec 2018. Web. 13 Dec 2019. <http://www.chicagotribune.com/history/ct-john-wayne-gacy-victims-20181215-htmlstory.html>.

"Timeline: Suburban serial killer John Wayne Gacy and the efforts to recover, name his 33 victims - Chicago Tribune." Chicago Tribune: Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment. Web. 13 Dec 2019. <http://www.chicagotribune.com/history/ct-john-wayne-gacy-timeline-htmlstory.html>.

"Top 20 quotes of JOHN WAYNE GACY famous quotes and sayings | inspringquotes.us." Inspiring Quotes | inspiringquotes.us. Web. 13 Dec 2019. <http://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/1001-john-wayne-gacy>.

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The London Guarantee Building or London Guaranty & Accident Building is a historic 1923 commercial skyscraper whose primary occupant since 2016 is the LondonHouse Chicago Hotel Formerly, for a time named the Stone Container Building, it is located near the Loop in Chicago, and is one of four 1920s skyscrapers that surround the Michigan Avenue Bridge (the others are the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and 333 North Michigan Avenue) and is a contributing property to the Michigan–Wacker Historic District. It stands on part of the former site of Fort Dearborn. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996.

The London Guarantee & Accident Building was designed by Chicago architect Alfred S. Alschuler and completed in 1923 for the London Guarantee & Accident Company, an insurance firm that was then its principal occupant. The top of the building is noted to resemble the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, but it was modeled after the Stockholm Stadshus. It is located in the Michigan–Wacker Historic District. The building stands on the property formerly occupied by the Hoyt Building from 1872 until 1921. The LondonHouse Hotel name is an homage to the first owner of the 1923 Beaux Arts tower. 

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the studios of Chicago's WLS (AM) radio were located on the fifth floor of the building. For several decades, Paul Harvey performed his daily syndicated radio show from studios on the fourth floor. The building was also famous from the 1950s through the early 1970s for The London House, a famous Chicago jazz nightclub and steakhouse that was located on the west side of the building's first floor; it had its own entrance on Wacker Drive. It was one of the foremost jazz clubs in the country, once home to such luminaries as Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Cannonball Adderley, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Nancy Wilson, Barbara Carroll, Bobby Short and many others. 

In the 1980s and 1990s TV show Perfect Strangers, the building's exterior was used as the home of the fictional newspaper Chicago Chronicle. 

In 2001, the building was acquired by Crain Communications Inc. and was referred to as the Crain Communications Building. Crain Communications and other office tenants occupied the tower until Oxford Capital paid $53 million for the property. Crain sold the building during the summer of 2013 to a Chicago hotel developer, Oxford Capital Group, which remodeled the structure into a 452-room hotel, with the addition of a modern glass addition on an adjacent plot. Goettsch Partners-designed the new 22-story addition on a parcel immediately west of the structure. On April 15, 2016, Oxford Capital Group sold the 452-room hotel, but also agreed to a 25-year contract to lease back and manage the hotel. Oxford, however, retained ownership of first and second floor retail space. 

After an extensive renovation project, the building reopened as the LondonHouse hotel on May 26, 2016.

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I’ve been watching Letters to Juliet and now I want nothing more than 16-year-old Grace, who stayed with her father after her parents’ divorce and her mom’s subsequent move to Hawai’i (Las Vegas, Chicago, Tucson, and lately San Francisco), helping her gandparents remodel their old house and finding the sweetest, saddest love letter hidden in her dad’s room. 

Her dad, when she asks about it, sighs and grumbles about privacy and then tells her about Steve McGarrett, who was at his school for one single, glorious year when they were 16. They were so young and so, so in love, and they had all these mad dreams about becoming cops and fighting crime, just like the guys on tv. But then Steve’s dad showed up and moved them god knows where, and that’s the last Danny ever saw of him. All he has to remember Steve by is that letter, Steve’s goodbye to him.

Grace, who has a long summer coming up with nothing to do but listen to her mom tell her why San Francisco would be so much better for her than New Jersey, immediately decides to reunite Danno with his long-lost love. 

The only problem? There are 124 Steve McGarretts in the US...

At first, she strikes out on her own. Seven Steve McGarretts live in the general area, after all, and she doesn’t think calling any of them and asking, “Hey, about 20 years ago when you were 16, did you fall in love with a boy?” would work all that well. 

The first Steve is a creepy butcher in Hoboken. She doesn’t even ask him where he went to school; if this is her dad’s Steve, she doesn’t want to know. The second Steve is a fireman, the third a banker, the fourth a florist, the fifth a used-car salesman. None of them were at the same school as her dad. 

The sixth has been missing since 9/11. She tries not to think about that. 

Danno catches up with her just as she’s reaching out to ring the seventh Steve’s doorbell. He yells at her, right there on the doorstep, about what the hell does she think she’s doing, has she never heard of stranger danger, didn’t he teach her better than that? She yells back that she’s doing this for him, that he’s a coward, that she knows perfectly well he’s not letting himself fall in love and telling himself it’s because of her but really he’s afraid because he tried twice and look where it got him. She’s so angry she’s overflowing with it, and she rings the damn bell without even conciously deciding to do it. 

The seventh Steve, it turns out, is not the right one. But she sees her dad’s face, sees the moment of disappointment. It’s then that Grace knows, knows, they have to find Steve. Otherwise, Danno will never get over him.

She spends the next two weeks talking Danno into a road trip. She knows they can’t check every single Steve McGarrett in person, but she goes to the very limit of her Google Fu to draw up a map, one trip, East Coast to West Coast, with fifty-nine McGarretts along the zig-zaggy way. 

None of them are it. 

And Grace feels worse the farther along they go, because the whole thing started out as this great adventure, a quest for true love, like something out of a story. But as she watches Danno force a grin at one stranger after another (and tip off the local police to arrest two of them, one for brewing meth, the other for human trafficking), she begins to realise that his life isn’t a story. That this isn’t some perfect romance; it’s messy and sad and maybe they should just... stop. 

He looks at her for a long while when she tells him, in tears, that she’s sorry, she didn’t mean to hurt him, can they just go back home? Looks at her, and says, “Monkey, sometimes you gotta see things through, even when they hurt.” 

And then he hugs her and kisses her temple and says, “Listen to me, I sound like a fortune cookie.” 

And she laughs, still crying, and hugs him back, grateful that he’s her Danno. 

Several days and several Steves later, they’re in front of San Francisco International Airport, because her summer break is almost over and Danno refuses to drive the whole way back. 

“You know, there’s a Steve McGarrett on Hawai’i,” she says, jokingly, because although this trip was a bust, deep down she still wants Danno to be happy. 

Plus, she visited Mom in Honolulu once, and it was awesome. 

“There’s a Steve McGarrett about to come through right here,” the stranger who just got out of the taxi says. “Why, what about him?”

The stranger introduces herself as Mary McGarrett. Next to Grace, Danno goes still. Grace holds her breath. 

Danno’s Steve had a sister called Mary. 

“Can we meet him?” Grace asks. “Please, Danno, can we?”

“Who’s Danno?” a new voice asks. 

They all turn around. 

The man is stupidly good-looking, tall and tanned, with colourful tattoos barely hidden by the sleeves of his t-shirt. He endures his sister’s hug with a fond grin and gives Grace a smile as he shakes her hand. He reaches out to shake Danno’s, too, but then he just... falters, hand sinking slowly to his side as he stares. 

“Danny?” he asks, every trace of a smile gone from his face. 

“Steve,” Danno says, and Grace has never heard his voice sound like that. Choked, like all his emotions are getting in the way of his talking. 

“Danny,” Steve, Steve McGarret, the Steve McGarrett, whom they just met by pure accident outside a major airport, repeats. He sounds almost reverent. 

Grace can’t tell who moves first, but suddenly the two are hugging, Steve’s face tucked into the crook of Danno’s neck, Danno’s nose mushed against Steve’s shoulder. Danno’s laughing, running his hands up and down Steve’s back as Steve rocks them back and forth. 

“Holy shit,” Mary says beside her, and Grace, hands in front of her mouth because her smile might split her face otherwise, can only nod in agreement. 

It’s still not a perfect romance. Danno yells at Steve for disappearing off the face of the Earth, and Steve shouts at Danno about the military and rules and anyway they were kids and he didn’t... he didn’t think Danno would... Jesus, he missed him so much. Mary yells about them yelling, Steve yells at Mary for butting in, and Mary yells back about how they wouldn’t even have met if it wasn’t for her so how about he come off that high horse for a change? Danno starts laughing and both McGarretts yell at him, and it’s all such a giant mess that, if love stories ended this way, Grance thinks no one would ever read them. 

Half a year later, she’s in Honolulu, to stay this time. Mom doesn’t talk to her for a week after finding out. Grace sighs, but she understands. Danno and Steve argue about the stupidest things and she doesn’t understand that at all, but they also give each other these goofy, stupid-in-love grins so that’s okay. 

She’s deliriously, joyously happy. 

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A lovely  split-level home that offers a great location and convenient lifestyle

This home has lovely curb appeal with a front yard featuring an extended asphalt driveway with new coating, and nice landscaping with large trees in flower beds.

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1. My parents are getting a 9k remodel done for 5k. Being raised by a negotiator, my father wants me to crunch the numbers and get to $3500. My eyes are still rolling.

2. I don't treat my parents any different than other customers (other than they are paying cost for materials and labor). They challenge me like any other, and I love that. My mother is going to look at new model homes just to see what's currently being installed.

3. Total non sequitur, but half gallons of milk were on sale at Dillons (Kroger in some parts, Ralph's out west) for 49 cents. Little Baby M. Yums is laying outside currently milk drunk.

4. 8 days til California. Chicago, IL and Carlsbad, California are like home to me. I'm not staying as long as I like this time, but I'll have an ocean view and all the alkaline water I can drink. I love alkaline water.

5. Before my father came to discuss money, I was able to talk honestly with my mother. Not that I can't with my father, we do, but then it's a happy hour of trading jabs like Mike & Ronnie this season on the Shore. I'm a little ripped and rambling buenas noches!

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Empty Downtown Offices: America’s Next Hot Apartment Trend?

During the pandemic, U.S. workers turned their homes into offices. Now, office buildings turned into homes could be a major real estate trend.

Remote work emptied office buildings across the country. Commercial vacancy rates are higher than they’ve been in years. Developers are ready to convert vacant office buildings into homes and mixed-use developments. This brings American downtowns back to their historical roots. And it makes these neighborhoods more accessible for residents.

The rise of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic led to the emptying of office buildings. It changed the atmosphere and character of downtowns across the U.S. overnight.

As more workers stayed home, their former office buildings stood empty. The most recent Cushman & Wakefield MarketBeat report revealed that 17.2 percent of U.S. office buildings were empty during the second quarter of 2021. This is the highest vacancy rate since it peaked at 17.3 percent in the third quarter of 2010.

Another 18 markets reported office building vacancy rates above 20 percent. That’s up from 12 markets during the first three months of 2021. Every region of the country is affected, from Brooklyn and Philadelphia in the east to Los Angeles and San Francisco in the west. Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Cincinnati, and Minneapolis also report high vacancy rates.

By the end of 2020, 137 million square feet of office space was available for sublease, according to the CBRE Group. That’s the largest number since 2003 — and an increase of 40 percent from 2019. Yet, commercial rents are still going up.

“Despite rising vacancy, national asking rents continued to increase, up 0.9 percent quarter-over-quarter as landlords have been reticent to drop top-line rents and new construction has been coming online at higher-than-average prices,” explained the Cushman & Wakefield MarketBeat report.

That’s bad news for business owners. But it’s good for renters who want a unique place to live. That’s because empty or overpriced office buildings can become new homes.

Taking an existing office building and turning it into a home is an example of adaptive reuse. Adaptive reuse means converting an existing building into a different form. It then serves a new function.

The conversion of warehouse spaces in Manhattan in the 1960s kicked off the trend. But any type of building can transform in this way. With a little imagination, a hotel, school, church, factory, or office building can be turned into a home.

The structure can also become a mixed-use building. A mixed-use building combines residential, commercial, and community spaces. That means renters can live, eat and shop under one roof.

The benefits of converting office buildings into homes

Location is a key driver towards the trend of converting office buildings into residential communities.

Adaptive reuse can be environmentally friendly and sustainable. It remodels structures that already exist instead of using resources to build a new home. Improvements often make apartments more environmentally friendly. That’s important to renters who want to reduce their environmental impact.

Office buildings are already located in established neighborhoods. They’re close to services, transportation, and other amenities. So, renters can be part of the community from the moment they move in. A walkable neighborhood with accessible public transportation means residents can drive less. Some get rid of their cars altogether. That saves renters money and time. It’s great for the environment, too.

Downtown districts across the country suffered when the pandemic shut down offices. But neighborhoods that balance commercial and residential properties are bouncing back.

Renters love the convenience and the amenities of walkable urban centers. And combining commercial and residential properties can help build more diverse, resilient neighborhoods. So, why don’t developers take more unused offices and turn them into homes?

The answer is complex, but, in general, repurposing office buildings into apartments has a few specific construction challenges including building codes and higher costs.

Adaptive reuse won’t end the affordable housing shortage that’s plagued the U.S. for decades. And not every office building can be turned into a home. But converting some unused offices into apartments gives empty buildings new life.

American downtowns were created as mixed-use zones. A mix of commercial and residential spaces sustained U.S. cities through the pandemic. Sustainable, adaptive reuse projects can help neighborhoods thrive in the future, as well.

For more on this trend, visit: https://www.rent.com/blog/empty-office-building-turned-into-homes-next-apartment-trend/

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Get Help Of Handyman Experts In Chicago To Make Your Home Look Its Best

Have you just moved into your Chicago residence and wondering how to get a professional to clean your gutters or do a power washing on your exterior walls? Are you looking for a professional to remodel your kitchen floor or install a new cabinet in the kitchen? Do you need some minor repairs for your house? All these types of jobs can be well taken care of by handyman experts in Chicago. You can also browse the internet and look for some reliable company that recruits professionals who want to find handyman jobs in Chicago.

Handyman experts in Chicago help in chores like household repair, cleaning and renovation jobs. Though in general, a handyman service is not called for any interior cleaning, still, you can also hire them to make your home look its best. Some of the services offered by handyman experts in Chicago include pressure washing of the home exterior (vinyl, brick or wood), power washing (removing layers of dust, dirt, mildew, grime, and other environmental pollutants from your driveway, patio or home). The service also includes some small construction jobs, which save you from spending a lot of money on larger contractors. These include: remodeling a single room, building a deck on the backyard, installing fixtures, drywall, flooring, and so on. Handyman experts can also do painting on the basis of your specifications. You can even install door or replace windows with the help of these professionals. You can also go for some light electrical or plumbing work with these professionals.

Benefit of hiring handyman experts in Chicago rather than larger construction companies not only lies in saving a lot of money but also some of the smaller jobs are not well taken care of by the latter ones. If you want services that include garbage disposal, or working in smaller appliances, these things are better handled by these local experts. At very reasonable rate, you can get to replace the rotting wood on your house, fix the broken staircase, and do many such other things. Some most common jobs handled by these experts are - kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, cabinet installation, countertop installation, floor or tiles installation / repair, crown molding fitting, railing / steps / stairs construction or repair, handicap ramp creation, doorway widening, skylight installation and repair, and so on. Compared to the larger contractors, these handyman professionals tackle the basic touch ups more efficiently.

You can browse the net to find a reliable company that offers handyman experts in Chicago. If you are new in the locality, you can ask the neighbors or colleagues and search the local yellow page. Or else, you can look for the online reviews on different companies and select the one that suits your requirements. A reputed company gives training to its handyman experts, which also include knowing the detailed information of various types of home improvement sectors. You can also find handyman jobs in Chicago advertised by reputed companies in the newspapers and business directories. Select a reliable one and let your home the people around you with looks of admiration.

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