by Vanessa Carlson | Feb 1, 2023 | Places
Considered to be the oldest community in Will County, Plainfield started out as Walker’s Grove, a small settlement established by James Walker and his family in 1828. Walker built a cabin, a sawmill, and a gristmill at the site of an old Potawatomi village on the Du...
by Vanessa Carlson | Feb 1, 2023 | Places
Oak Park, originally part of Cicero became its own municipality in 1902. The first settlers in what became the village of Oak Park were Joseph and Berry Kettlestrings of Yorkshire, England, who moved here in 1837. The Kettlestrings, whose property bordered the Frink...
by Vanessa Carlson | Feb 1, 2023 | Places
Sometime in the 1830’s brothers Jesse and Warren Wheaton arrived in Illinois from Connecticut and purchased about 1,000 acres of the land that now encompasses downtown Wheaton. In 1849 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad build a station on land donated by...
by Vanessa Carlson | Jan 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Early French traders knew this area as Gross Point, so called for the large top of land that jutted out into Lake Michigan here. Among the first settlers at Grosse pointe was New Jersey native Maj. Edward H. Mulford, who purchased 160 acres in 1836 and build a cabin,...
by Vanessa Carlson | Jan 30, 2023 | Places
In 1834 new jersey born brothers Joseph and Sammuel Mccarty spotted a bend in the swift running Fox River and feeling it was an ideal location for a sawmill, they purchased land on both sides of the river. After building a mill on the east side, they sold their land...
by Vanessa Carlson | Jan 30, 2023 | Places
In 1831 Ohio natives Joseph Naper and his brother, John along with their families arrived at the DuPage River. Each built a home and a sawmill. Joseph Naper’s cabin, near present day Mill and Jefferson Streets, became the nucleus of Naperville, originally known as...
by Vanessa Carlson | Jan 30, 2023 | Places
In its nearly tow hundred year history, Chicago has acquired many nicknames: the Windy City, the Second City, Chi-Town, the City of the Big Shoulders, and others. Few know that the name Chicago itself came from the foul-smelling vegetation the Miami Indians called...
by Vanessa Carlson | Jan 30, 2023 | Places, Uncategorized
Joliet, originally named Juliet, was founded in 1833 with its first post office. The source of the name Juliet is uncertain: the settlement may have been named for a settler’s female relative, or perhaps it was a version of Jolliet, after explorer Louis Jolliet, for...
by Vanessa Carlson | Oct 27, 2022 | flat fee mls listing
Sometimes you feel like you just don’t have the right resources when it comes to selling a piece of property. A real estate transaction is a particular process. We all know this, but sometimes you don’t think about it until it’s really time to sell....
by Vanessa Carlson | Aug 25, 2022 | flat fee mls listing
On this blog, we’ve talked about the value of flat fee MLS listings for home sellers, going over some of the ways in which these systems can work positively for people who want to divest themselves of real estate without paying massive commissions to agents and...
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