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Random Chicago iPhone Pix
Architecturally, Chicago is a classic Doric order with a touch of Graham Anderson and a splash of Daniel Burnham; i.e. the Shedd Aquarium, the Chicago skyline to Navy Pier looking north from the Field Museum, and the main lobby of Union Station on Ad...
Chicago Fun Days
I took a break from Chicago Real Estate for a few days and hooked up with the Familia downtown; Segways on the Lakefront, traffic dodging in Chinatown, and finally---the Wiener's Circle in Lincoln Park for a few Chicago Style Red Hots and of course, ...
iLife
This is my iLife in a screenshot---From Left to Right & Top to Bottom:No Service=I'm so screwed.6:33 PM=Haven't eaten and the day is still not over.Battery Low=I'm so screwed.Touch to return to call=Sure, (if only that function actually worked).1...
YO CHICAGO, VOTE MARIA PINTO!
Subject: VOTE! Maria Pinto OscarsCHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE:I would appreciate your help on an exciting development. And, in these challenging times, it is nice to have the opportunity to focus on more positive matters.I am forwarding to y...
Rabbit R.I.P.
He was truly a man of letters. He won two Pulitzers. From essays on baseball to short stories in The New Yorker, he continued to publish long past the point where he ever needed the money---or the recognition. He had been my favorite writer since und...
Chicago B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted
I stopped in for an icy shot of Blues this past weekend at, where else?... B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted Street. It's been my favorite live musical joint ever since parking my own U-Haul sideways in a Chicago alley one snowy December night some 13 years ago ...
It's beginning to look a lot like...
To: AllBelieve me, I'm feeling you. Who (besides most grandparents and myself) really cares about receiving other people's family pictures on Holiday Greeting cards? It seems instead of Hallmark illustrated Santas in Santaland or Winters in Wonderlan...
Swann Song
Folks, you must read the following essay from the veritable Greg Swann of BloodhoundBlog.com.(click below) Hope and despair at the onset of economic recession: Who cares about the tunnel? All I can see is the light… Geno Petro...
Hangin' w/my BFF
So I was chatting with my BFF and new Facebook bud, Danielle, yesterday at our monthly lunch meeting covering the usual 'catch-up topics'--spheres of influence, scoop, dirty laundry, relationships, love lives, the Chicago real estate business, the pu...
You Can Leave Your Hat On
Yes, yes, yes...it's a red letter November day indeed and I think we all know what I'm referring to. (It begins with Cha and ends with nge, I have heard) Cruising south on LSD (that's Lake Shore Drive in Chicago-speak to all you squares) I suddenly f...
Hey Chicago
Come to Bloodhound Blog OR Geno From Chicago to check out my latest posts across the internet.Thanks for reading and for your comments. I generally can't respond but I do read every one...more than once!G...
Is it safe to come out yet?
We are hunkered down. We've brought in supplies for the long November haul. Our new minds are set. Storm windows are affixed and our shutters pulled tight and locked. Our safes are stuffed with inflated tender; confederate currency for a later day pe...
No Crying in Baseball
It's one of my favorite Tom Hanks lines..."There's no crying in baseball." How could there be? In Chicago, with both teams currently at the top of their respective divisions in early August, only tears of joy are permitted. Those, and perhaps the kin...
Don't pee in the alley
When you staggger out of one those few remaining Chicago beer gardens in Ukrainian Village after a night of too much 'zimne piwo' (go ahead, Google it) and start the slow crawl home to your graystone garden hovel, be careful where you relieve yourse...
Anachronic Chicago Storefronts
It ain't Mayberry...R.F.D. or otherwise Check out the above random photos I snapped on my way into the office yesterday. The architecture is purely turn of the century (1890s to 1910 Chicago) but the actual establishments housed in each are anything ...
Chicago Street Surfing
Zoom in on the silhouette of the dude with outstretched arms on the horizon. He's wearing inline skates and is about to ride the handrail from the Forest Glen Metra platform at Forest Glen and Balmoral Avenues (across from my house), 45 degrees stra...
Chicago's Home Outsource
Click on either of the hyperlinks below to visit the latest news sources that have posted my Chicago's Home Weblog articles on their websites. The referenced real estate piece is from a few weeks back but the news wires just picked it up yesterday. I...
O'er the ramparts we watched the Chicago Fourth
Mark Rodriguez of WCBS-TV.com in New York posted this story yesterday:Have you ever wondered why our national anthem ends with a question -- "Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"...(c...
Chicago Summer Sidewalks
chicago photos by geno petro...
Oh, THAT Sears...
I don't believe I'm all that different from most people who live in Chicago proper (i.e. not the 'burbs) in that I rarely take in the downtown sights except in accidental passing or escorting the occasional out of town visitor. My relocation referral...
A Realtor's Story (part one)
The seller thinks she's being robbed. She hasn't actually come out and said it but I can tell. I can always tell. The Chicago real estate market has not responded well to her little corner of Uptown these last 365 days and the MLS listed 2 bedroom, 1...
On the 7th Day a house got sold
Our Managing Broker is a big proponent of the Sunday Open House, as am I. Yes, even still. Tens of thousands of people visit our real estate company website on a monthly basis and there's never a day that goes by when a potential client doesn't regi...
Correct Pricing in Chicago (thoughts of a third realtor)
I'd like to be able to rewrite Chicago history, specifically Chicago real estate history. As I've mentioned many times in the past, I'm intrigued by all things counterfactual--i.e. What if Harold Washington never died? What if there was never a Great...
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Click on the video above ^ for a little 'Search' music, then...Click on the link below V for The Chicago Public School Locator MATCH ANY CHICAGO ADDRESS WITH ITS RESPECTIVE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL Geno Petro...
Chicago Real Estate Market Charts
Remember dear readers and real estate enthusiasts across Chicago: What went down will come back up. Hopefully, this can help you figure out when...CHIICAGO SINGLE FAMILY HOUSESCHICAGO CONDOMINIUMSEach week I receive detailed market research reports f...
Hot Diggity Doug's (an iconic Chicago field trip)
For months now I've been following with growing interest...no, make that great intrigue, the shaggy chic (if not downright haute) North Side neighbor-hood 'foodie' chatter surrounding a certain hot dog stand at the no-mans-land corner of Roscoe and C...
Block by Block Chicago
While surfing the net (isn't there a better term for that pastime yet?) for neighborhood news near my homestead in the bucolic Forest Glen community, I came across the following website: EveryBlock Chicago. I just added the landing page to my sidebar...
"Cut!...That's a wrap, Johnny."
Tonight is the final night of in-town shooting for Michael Mann's Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and a famous (infamous?) Chicago alley off of Lincoln Avenue as his final resting spot. The above picture, taken from a car windo...
MEME'd myself, and you (no tag backs!)
MEME: A unit of cultural information ( in this case, a blogger to blogger to blogger questionaire... ) that represents a basic idea that can be transferred from one individual to another, and subjected to mutation, crossover and adaptation ( in this ...
Memorial Day, 2008
No Chicago Real Estate talk today. Just some reflection on memories of those who have passed... and dreams for the rest of us in the queue. Geno Petro 5/26/08.photo by my iPhone...
