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ELECTRIC

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312-846-6721

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(Brian Pinsky) AND SHOWER
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blindsgallery.com 312-787-1166
773-525-1800

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ashlandglass.com
773-472-3700

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““From beginning to the end of the process,

Leslie was truly fantastic. She took my wife
and me around Chicago showing us the
various areas. She asked what we wanted

and eventually showed us exactly what we
needed. She was incredibly knowledge-
able and professional in all aspects of real

estate. In addition, she is a very personable
individual and an absolute pleasure to be
with. Her knowledge of the legal, decora-
tive, and geographical aspects of purchasing
a home is truly amazing.This is the fifth
house I have purchased and by far the best
real estate agent I’ve ever had. I cannot
say that anything needs to be improved in
dealing with @properties and Leslie. My
recommendation is without qualification!”

- Stephen Miller

REAL ESTATE BROKER
548 W.Webster Av.
Chicago, IL 60614

[email protected]
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(M) 312-208-3444

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NEIGHBORHOOD
INFO

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ANDERSONVILLE

Just north of Ravenswood lies
Andersonville, an old Scandinavian
neighborhood, whose borders are
loosely defined by Foster Avenue
on the south, Peterson on the
north, Broadway on the east and
Ravenswood on the west.
Andersonville offers residents a
vibrant, self-sustaining community
just blocks from the lakefront and
less than five miles from
downtown.

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Within the past decade, BUCKTOWN
Bucktown/Wicker Park has WICKER PARK
emerged as one of the most

exciting neighborhoods in
Chicago and one of the trendiest
in the country. Located around the
six-corner intersection of North,
Damen, and Milwaukee, Bucktown/
Wicker Park boasts a thriving artist
community that hosts the annual
Festival of the Arts. But Bucktown/

Wicker Park has also grown
popular with young urbanites who

enjoy the energy and diversity of
this North Side neighborhood.

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EDGEBROOK
SAUGANASH

Located on Chicago’s Far North
Side, Edgebrook/Sauganash was
once part of the Sauganash land
tract and was annexed to the city
of Chicago in 1889.This affluent
residential area combines the best
of both worlds for those who want
to live in the city yet also
appreciate spacious yards,
distinctive homes and quiet streets.

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EDGEWATER Located between Uptown and
Rogers Park on Chicago’s Far
North Side, Edgewater was
once a playground for
Chicago’s early 20th century
elite.Today, the stately mansions
and posh hotels have largely
been replaced by high-rises with
spectacular lake views and easy
access to beaches and parks.
The neighborhood offers
excellent access to trains and
public transportation, and
Loyola University is also nearby.

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GOLD
COAST

The incomparable Gold Coast,
one of the wealthiest

neighborhoods in America, is
where one can find many of
Chicago’s most famous residents
– and the world class real estate

they call home. From the
timeless mansions of Astor
Street to the mag-nificent
high-rises of Lake Shore Drive,
the Gold Coast is truly an
inspirational setting from which
to savor life in the Windy City.

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LAKEVIEW

Located immediately to the north
of Lincoln Park, Lakeview/

Wrigleyville offers one of the most
diverse communities in the city.
Rubbing up to the shore of Lake
Michigan, this North Side

neighborhood has something for
everyone, from shops, restaurants,
bars, and entertainment that appeal

to young singles, to top-rated
schools and kid-friendly amenities

for families.

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LINCOLN Lincoln Park, one of Chicago’s
PARK most sought after neighborhoods,
is located just two miles north of
downtown and bordered by North
Avenue, Diversey Parkway, the
Chicago River and Lake Michigan.
The community offers an appealing
blend of active retail streets, urban
college campuses, and narrow
tree-lined residential blocks.

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Centered around a bustling LINCOLN
shopping and dining district, Lincoln SQUARE

Square is located on the North
Side at the intersection of

Lawrence,Western and Lincoln
Avenue. Lincoln Square became
one of Chicago’s first commuter
suburbs when the Ravenswood
elevated train line was completed

in 1907.Today, this Chicago
neighborhood still gives residents

convenient access to public
transportation including the CTA
Brown Line and the Metra Union

Pacific North Line. Likewise, the
community effortlessly blends
trendy hot spots with its
century-old German heritage.

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LOGAN
SQUARE

Named for the public square at
its heart, Logan Square is located
north of Humboldt Park and west
of Bucktown on Chicago’s
Northwest Side.While the
community has long been home
to a diverse ethnic, working-class
population, Logan Square has been
discovered in recent years by an
influx of artists, students,
professionals and families attracted
to the area’s bohemian lifestyle,
relatively affordable housing, and
easy access to the Loop via the
CTA Blue Line.

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LOOP

Not too long ago, Chicago’s Loop was an area
where people came to work or play, but not to live.

That began to change in the 1990s as developers
started constructing new high-rises and repurposing

existing office buildings for residential use. Now,
homebuyers can find a wealth of housing options –
as well as amenities to complement their daily lives
– in the historical center of downtown Chicago.The
Loop is home to Lakeshore East, a rising community

in Chicago’s New East Side neighborhood. Con-
sidered a “Walker’s Paradise” by Walkscore.com,
Lakeshore East is just steps from great dining and

beautiful parks.

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OLD
TOWN

Principally located along North
Wells Street, between Division and
North Avenue, Old Town connects
Lincoln Park to the Gold Coast
and is known for its diverse
collection of restaurants, shops,
and entertainment venues. It
also features some of the city’s
best-preserved historic homes.

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Stretching from the Chicago River RIVER NORTH
to Chicago Avenue, west of The RIVER WEST
Magnificent Mile, River
North/River West is an old loft
district that came alive with art
galleries and restaurants quickly

followed by a number of hip, urban
homebuyers. Chicago’s biggest
office building, the Merchandise

Mart, anchors the southern edge
of the neighborhood, while just a
few blocks east, Donald Trump’s
92-story Trump International Hotel
and Tower Chicago is redefining

the city skyline.

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ROGERS Located on the northern fringe of
PARK the city, bordering suburban
Evanston, Rogers Park is one of
Chicago’s most diverse
neighborhoods – and also one
of the most affordable places for
North Side homebuyers.The
neighborhood is divided into east
and west sections and includes
smaller pocket neighborhoods such
as Peterson Park. Loyola
University and the lakefront are
focal points on the east, while West
Rogers Park includes larger
single-family homes and a number
of city parks..

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SOUTH
LOOP

Recently dubbed the fastest growing neighborhood
in America by Chicago magazine, the South Loop is a
boom town with a storied past and an incredibly bright
future. Chicago’s original “Gold Coast” in the late 19th
century, the South Loop was home to such business
icons as Marshall Field and George Pullman. However,

the area went undeveloped for most of the 20th
century.The introduction of Central Station in the
mid 1990s brought the first wave of thousands of new
homes.Virtually every corner of the South Loop is
experiencing new development today, from the lofts of
Printer’s Row and the Motor Row Historic District to
the high-rises of Central Station and a booming retail

corridor along Roosevelt Road.

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Streeterville, located south of the
Gold Coast and north of the Loop,
is one of Chicago’s oldest
neighborhoods, yet one of its
fastest growing.Within the last two
decades, dozens of new buildings,
including high-rises, hotels, stores
and institutions have sprung up
around the spot where Captain
George Wellington Streeter
famously ran aground, laying claim
to the area in 1886.

STREETERVILLE

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UKRAINIAN A residential area that reflects the
VILLAGE German, Polish and Ukrainian
immigrants who settled on the
West Side in the late 1800s and
early 1900s, Ukrainian Village is a
neighborhood of solid,
Victorian-style homes, workers
cottages and tidy red brick
two-and three-flats.

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UPTOWN

Located between Montrose and
Foster, from the lake west to Clark
Street, Uptown is the colorful
Chicago neighborhood that was
once the stomping ground of
Charlie Chaplin and Al Capone.
Today, the neighborhood is
attracting a lot of new homebuyers
with its relative affordability and
easy access to the lakefront and
public transportation. Uptown also
encompasses the areas known as
Sheridan Park and Buena Park

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Few Chicago neighborhoods have WEST
undergone as dramatic a LOOP

transformation in such a short
amount of time as the West Loop.
A downtrodden area for much of

the 20th century, the West Loop
turned a corner when the newly

built United Center hosted the
Democratic National Convention
in 1996. In the ensuing years, the

land between the stadium and
the Loop would fill in rapidly with

trendy loft conversions, new
construction condos, art galleries,
boutiques, night clubs and dozens

of new restaurants.

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““We relocated from CA to IL in 2017.

Leslie was one of the first people we met
and she went out of her way to help us
understand Chicago neighborhoods and
the dynamics of the real estate market.
She quickly understood our preferences
and helped us narrow our search to the
types of homes we would actually buy. Due
to the relocation process our availability
was limited, but Leslie worked around our
challenging schedules and made appoint-
ments whenever it worked for us.After
we selected our home Leslie helped us
through the offer process until the very
end. Recently, a friend also relocated to IL
and I recommended Leslie to him without

hesitation. She is great!”
- John Schuster

REAL ESTATE BROKER
548 W.Webster Av.
Chicago, IL 60614

[email protected]
leslieglazier.com

(M) 312-208-3444

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SCHOOL
INFO

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FOUR TYPES
OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

There are four types of schools in
the Chicago Public School system:
neighborhood schools, selective
schools, magnet schools, and char-
ter schools.

Neighborhood schools

must enroll any student who lives
within their boundary. Every
student has a neighborhood school
they can go to.Tiers don’t matter
for enrollment.

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Selective schools, - CLASSICAL SCHOOLS:
There are five Classical Schools
which admit students from (Decatur, McDade, Poe, Skin-
across the city, are different. ner North, and Skinner West),
Students must apply to them, which are
and no one is guaranteed a designed to provide a
seat because of where they challenging liberal arts course
live. Most of the seats are filled of instruction for students with
high academic potential. Trans-
through the tier system. portation is provided to stu-
dents who live within designat-
Selective schools and ed street ranges.
programs include:

- REGIONAL GIFTED CENTERS:

Provides an accelerated
instructional program that

places an emphasis on
thinking, reasoning, problem

solving and creativity. In
addition to rigor in the core

content areas, instruction
includes a world language or
Latin, laboratory science, com-

puter science and fine arts.


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- ACADEMIC CENTERS
The Academic Centers offer an
accelerated program for
students in grades seven and
eight.The programs are housed
in seven high schools: (Harlan
High School, Kenwood Academy,
Lane Tech High School,
Lindblom Math and Science
Academy, Morgan Park High
School,Taft High School and
Whitney Young Magnet High
School).Admissions testing is
required. After the application
deadline, applicants will be
contacted regarding testing time,
date, and location.

- INTERNATIONAL GIFTED
PROGRAMS
The International Gifted
Program is offered at
Lincoln Elementary School and
the Ogden International School
of Chicago for gifted sixth,
seventh and eighth grade
students.Transportation is
provided.

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MAGNET SCHOOLS  SELECTIVE
ENROLLMENT
are in between: they admit HIGH SCHOOLS
students within their

boundaries based on a lottery.
Any leftover spots are opened
up to students citywide based

on the tier system, much like
a selective school. So nearby
students are not guaranteed a

seat, but they have much
better chance of getting in.

CHARTER
SCHOOLS 

set their own enrollment
policies.

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SELECTIVE SCHOOLS IN That’s because selective
CHICAGO HAVE QUOTAS schools use admissions quotas:
Chicago Public Schools
In Chicago, a student’s chance requires the schools to reserve
of getting into the city’s top, an equal number of spots for
selective schools depends on students coming from poor
where he and wealthy neighborhoods.[1]
or she lives.
If schools didn’t do this,
students from well-off places
would be admitted in
disproportionate numbers,
because they tend to have
better admissions scores.[2]

Rightly or wrongly, the quota
tries to keep wealthier
students from dominating
selective schools.

The result: a high-achieving
student from an impoverished
area has a better chance of
getting into a selective school
than a similar student from a
richer area.

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““Leslie is by far the best realtor we have

ever worked with. She is extremely knowl-
edgeable about the market, neighborhoods
and properties, plus is very easy to work

with.And her follow up is excellent. She
made the process of finding a property,
negotiating the contract and closing on
the purchase really easy and pleasant. High-

ly recommend using her.”
-Michele Motta

REAL ESTATE BROKER
548 W.Webster Av.
Chicago, IL 60614

[email protected]
leslieglazier.com

(M) 312-208-3444

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FARMER’S
MARKETS

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SUNDAY MONDAY

GLENWOOD MARKET LOYOLA
6962 N. Glenwood Ave. 6550 N. Sheridan Rd

INDEPENDENT PARK TUESDAY
3945 N. Springfield Ave.
FEDERAL PLAZA
LOGAN SQUARE Adams St. & Dearborn Pkwy
(Indoor Nov. & Dec.) LINCOLN SQUARE
2301 W. Leland Ave.
3107 W. Logan Blvd. SOAR
220 W. Chicago Ave.
LOGAN SQUARE
(Indoor Nov. 14-Dec.16)

2362 N. Milwaukee Ave

MAXWELL STREET MARKET
(Year round)

Desplaines St. & Taylor St.

WEST LOOP
(Green City Market)
115 S. Sangamon St.

WICKER PARK
1425 N. Damen Ave.

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THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY ARGLYLE NIGHT MARKET
1000 W.Argyle St.
ANDERSONVILLE
1500 W. Berwwyn Ave. DALEY PLAZA
50 W.Washington St.
LINCOLN PARK
(Green City Market) GALLAGHER WAY
(Green City Market)
1817 N. Clark St. 3637 N. Clark St.

RAVENSWOOD LOW-LINE
3900 N. Damen Ave. 3410 N. Southport Ave.

SOUTH LOOP
1936 S. Michigan Ave.

WEST TOWN HEALTH
MARKET
3601 W. Chicgao Ave.

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SATURDAY

DIVISION ST.
Division St. & Dearborn Pkwy.
EDGEWATER
5917 N. Broadway St.
FULTON MARKET
800 W. Fulton Market
LINCOLN PARK
700 W.Armitage Ave.
NORTHCENTER
4100 N. Damen Ave.
PRINTERS ROW
700 S. Dearborn St.

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SEASONAL
MAINTENANCE

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Clean gutters SPRING

Inspect roof for Trim trees, bushes, and shrubs.
damaged shingles (wait until spring-flowering
shrubs have finished blooming.)
Check flashing,
and re-seal as needed Hot water heater inspected
Add copper sulfate to
Re-nail any loose basement floor drain and
siding or trim boards downspout drains to control tree
roots in main sewer
Check house and At winter’s end, re-open
garage for rotting wood interior valves supplying
outdoor water pipes.
Check and replace any
bad caulking around windows,
doors, siding joints, etc.

Scrape loose window
glazing and replace as needed

Clean windows and their
frames when installing washed
screens

Oil/grease garage door
tracks

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SUMMER

Scrape, prime, and paint any
areas on exterior surfaces that are
in need, especially any bare wood

Check all flat roofs, and recoat
or seals needed, especially flashing

Check for mortar that needs
repair (including chimney mortar
and inside fireplace) and tuckpoint
or repair as needed

Check sidewalks, patios, and
landings for condition; patch cracks,
level, and/or replace, as needed.

Clean carpets and wax tile and
hardwood floors

Add copper sulfate to basement
floor drain and downspout drains
to control tree roots in main sewer

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Check tuckpointing on all FALL
brick areas, then seal masonry
with a silicone sealant Clean and reseal decks,
fences, or other structures
Check weather stripping on made of pressure-treated wood
all doors and windows, and
repair as needed Oil garage door tracks

Check all areas that need to Prune bushes, trees, and shrubs
be caulked, and repair as needed (except spring-flowering shrubs)

Make sure all garage floor or Have furnace checked or
driveway drains are flowing tuned up, and change filter; have
properly boiler checked every few years
(every year if boiler is more
Clear gutters of leaves, check than 20 years old)
for leaks, and repair as needed
Have chimney cleaned (yearly, if
Inspect roof for loose or wood burning; every 5 years if gas
missing shingles, and check
flashing seals; repair as needed Check damper in fireplace for
obstructions, such as birds’ nests.

Add copper sulfate to basement
floor drain and downspout drains
to control tree roots in main sewer

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WINTER At beginning of winter, shut
off interior valves supplying
outdoor water pipes to
prevent them from freezing

Change furnace filters monthly

Repair any interior wall
damage; touch up or repaint
as needed

Check and re-grout tile in all
bath and kitchen areas, as needed,
and apply a silicone sealer

Add copper sulfate to basement
floor drain and downspout drains
to control tree roots in main sewer

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