Claudia Field's (barringtonhomesplus) Blog

Residents of Barrington, Lake Zurich, Hawthorn Woods, and parts of Deer Park are fighting against the Canadian National Railroad's (CNR) proposed purchase of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern (EJ&E) railroad line. The reason for the purchase is to open a line for CNR that circles around metro Chicago i...

Sitting on the eastern edge of Barrington, Illinois, is Baker's Lake. Sited on a small island in the middle of the lake is an odd-shaped apartment complex, home to over 300 nesting pairs of herons. Like all snowbirds, herons migrate south for the winter and return north in the spring. Early birds...