Moving to Palos Heights, IL: Should You Buy a Home Here?

The three Palos villages are easy to blur together, and Palos Heights is the one that sits in the middle, in price, in feel, and on the map. It offers something its two neighbors do not: an actual walkable downtown, plus Lake Katherine and a close-in Metra station, wrapped around a settled, establis

Moving to Palos Hills, IL: Should You Buy a Home Here?

The three Palos villages get talked about as one place, but they are not, and Palos Hills is the one that surprises people. It is the affordable, denser, more practical member of the trio, home to Moraine Valley Community College and a housing mix heavy on condos, townhomes, and modest single-family

Moving to Palos Park, IL: Should You Buy a Home Here?

People tend to lump the three Palos villages together, and they are genuinely different places. Palos Park is the wooded, big-lot, slow-down end of the trio: horse trails, forest preserve on three sides, and a village center that still feels like a small town. If you want space and quiet inside a re

A Dog Lover's Guide to the Southwest Suburbs

I am a dog owner, I am still fairly new to the area, and when I went looking for the good dog-friendly spots out here, I could not find a straight answer. Every "dog-friendly patio near Chicago" list is about the city, not the southwest suburbs. So I started building my own, partly for you and partl