Gene D. Petro ~ RE Broker | Owner ~ Chicago IL: Ukrainian Village

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Monday, December 01, 2014

Chicago Top Ten Real Estate Deals -- December 2014

Click HERE to view my December 2014 Top Ten Chicago Real Estate Deals!

(Houses as well as 2 bedroom condo listings in Chicago)

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Chicago Neighborhood Property Search

Wrigleyville neighborhood page screenshot

Click ahead >>> to check out the latest Chicago Neighborhood page ^^^ on my GenoPetro.House web site and MLS search engine. Featured Neighborhoods and 'Jump Search' listings include: Andersonville, Bucktown, DePaul, Lincoln Square, Portage Park, Printers Row, River North, Roscoe Village, Ukrainian Village, Uptown, Wrigleyville; as well as many Chicago suburbs including: Evanston, Glencoe, and Des Plaines.

There is also a free Foreclosure List link, Pet Friendly Rental List link, a 'What's Mine Worth?' link (in case what you're curious about the market value of your own house or condo), several other buyer and seller related pages, and links to my other blogs and Web 2.0 commentaries. And for you first time North Side buyers, there are many 2 bedroom condo listings for sale.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Don't pee in the alley, Sally

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 yourself, water the flowers, see a man about a horse...Or more specifically, don't pee in the alley behind the 1007-1015 block of N. Wolcott Ave. It is a designated urban art district of sorts. 'Tres cool,' as they used to say at the forever hip but now disinterred, Lava Lounge on Damen (most recently morphed into a place called Piccolo that serves gelato and bruschette---HUH?). Sorry, gelato is a lot of things but 'hip' isn't one of them. (Same with the 1200 block of Milwaukee Ave as compared to the 800 block of Damen back in the day. Go ahead, Google it too.)

An excerpt from the most recent issue of TimeOut Chicago's Art & Design section explains the West Town neighborhood phenom to which I refer, in further detail:

The buildings belong to sculptor Jerzy Kenar, who began commissioning alley art in 2003. And by commissioning, we mean he gave neighborhood teens $100, a can of paint and some Coca-Cola and had them go to town on his garage doors. Since then, the alley has been filled with cartoons or graffitiesque letters. Teenage boys work on the garage with their girlfriends in tow, “smoking and passing cans of paint...”

In other words, it's art. Try not to piss on it. Zimne Piwo!

(Also... Greg Whelan just sent me this link. Like I said earlier, tres cool. He lives in the UK Village.)

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SELLSIUS: Geno - one of my favorite posts of the entire swap. well written. rudy.sellsius Posted by: rudolph d. bachraty III | December 20, 2006
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PAUL CHANEY: Geno, I have to say that's the best writing of any of the posts in the blog swap so far, and there have been some good ones, Christine's included. Do you always write with that kind of flair, or was it simply New York inspired? If the former, I'm adding your feed to my RSS reader! Great stuff. Very entertaining. Posted by: Paul Chaney | December 21, 2006
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