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PANDEMIC PREFERENCES

Original Post: August 7, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the usual Spring market in Chicago and its North Shore suburban communities but not for long. By the end of May, 2020, when the Spring market typically comes to a close, the exponential rise of COVID-19 contagion was checked in the City and North Shore. […]
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COVID-19

Original Post: April 15, 2020 Real estate in Illinois, during the COVID-19 crisis, is an essential service. In March 2020, Governor Pritzker initiated and, then, extended a stay-at-home order through April 30th in an effort to interrupt the exponential curve of COVID-19 contagion in the State. One cannot “stay at home” if one does […]
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THE NEW OLD CHICAGO POST OFFICE

Original Post: November 13, 2019 The first structure of the Old Main Chicago Post Office was built in 1921 and the addition, straddling an existing railway system and a planned expressway, was completed in 1932. The architects were Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. At the time, Chicago was the Nation’s mail order capital, and […]
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Net Neutrality

Original Post: October 12, 2018 [Above diagram is an unidentified communications network drawn from the Internet.] According to Google Dictionary, “net neutrality” is a principle guiding the practices of Internet service providers: “enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.” The concept implies […]