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The U.S.’s First Organic Farm Real Estate Investment Trust is Based in Evanston
Crain’s Chicago Business
Access to capital is notoriously difficult for farmers. Growing and raising certified organic food is even more daunting. That's because the USDA requires organic farmers to work the soil for three years before allowing them to certify their crops as organic. What's more, yields are lower for a good five years after starting out while the soil becomes richer.
Here Comes The Neighborhood
Politico Focus
Aaron Mallory, 30, remembers driving back from college at Southern Illinois University and seeing blocks filled with abandoned and boarded up homes, blighted by poverty, gangs and violence on the city’s south and west sides.
“It always bothered me,” Mallory said, especially what he saw in Roseland, the far South Side neighborhood where he was born.
Photography by Alyssa Schukar.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine
A home brewer. Motorcycle enthusiasts. Deep-sea and fly fishers. A cello player. A new father. A budding DJ. Adrenaline junkies. World travelers. A spider hater. What do all of these people have in common? They’re among this year’s 40 Under 40 award winners, a group of young professionals that our engineering community will be proud to work with.
The 40 Under 40 awards are bestowed on the best and the brightest—40 years old or younger—who are engaged in the building and construction industry. These individuals are fire protection, mechanical, lighting, environmental, electrical, and civil engineers, among other things. They spend their days streamlining engineering offices, designing fire protection systems, saving clients money, creating award-winning systems, designing innovative engineering solutions, and building bridges (literal and figurative).
The Residential Specialist
For years, door knocking has been a staple of many REALTORS® who want to make face-to-face contact with prospective buyers and sellers. As digital marketing has taken over, knocking on doors is both loved and loathed by CRSs.
Nourishing Hungry Children and Women
REALTOR magazine
REALTOR® Necia Freeman remembers the first time she tried talking to a heroin-addicted prostitute in Huntington, W.V.
It was November 2011. The city was just beginning to get noticed for its growing opioid addiction and heroin crisis. By 2015, the death rate tied to the drugs would become 10 times the national average, earning Huntington the moniker of “overdose capital of the United States.”
A Luxury Apartment Boom in the Burbs
Chicago Magazine
Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine
