If you rent your home instead of owning it, then you might assume that you can’t make the place your own. Even if you can guess which walls are load-bearing and holding up the roof of your house or apartment, you can’t start knocking out the rest for an...
Countless different tasks go into maintaining a home. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the idea and even easier to overlook critical elements year after year. Homeowners tend not to think of the roof of their house. It’s an out of sight, out of mind thing....
Keeping up your home is a point of pride. It’s also necessary, as regular maintenance is crucial to keeping a residence up to par over time. Home repairs and improvements are not a choice, although the specific projects you have done might be. One other decision...
Chicago is home to the world’s first steel skyscraper structures: the Oliver Building and the Delaware Building. In October of 1871, Chicago experienced a great conflagration, burning the entire city for two days. The fire destroyed more than 3 square miles...
