PETE AMBROSIO'S CHICAGO'S NORTH & NORTHWEST SUBURBS BLOG

Known throughout Lake and McHenry County as one of the areas best festivals, Waucondafest hosted by The Wauconda Park District  at Homer T. Cook Park is ready to kick off the summer fun (JUNE 21 -JUNE24). The four-day festival offers top notch bands and entertainment each night, carnival rides an...

                                                                                                      DOCKS ON BANGS LAKE, WAUCONDA ILLINOIS Well it has been over a year since DOCKS opened for business in Wauconda!!! The decor is great, the menu should please all taste, and the bartenders are fri...

Affordable ELECTRIC and NATURAL GAS bills are becoming a thing of the past. Sometimes we might think we have no say in these matters, but we do!!! The Citizens Utility Baord created in 1983, is a nonprofit nonpartisan consumer organization fighting for electric & natural gas customers across the ...

Just as ASBESTOS and LEAD BASE PAINT was a big problem in the latter 1900s, RADON has become the ASBESTOS of the 2000s. As a Realtor in Wauconda and Lake County,RADON seems to be popping up more and more in home inspection reports. The word RADON seems to strike fear in buyers and sellers of home...

The story of how we got to WAUCONDA, ILLINOIS from Brooklyn, NEW YORK some 34 years ago is odd, but the reason we stayed is not. My wife Nancy had family in the Lake County area, so we thought we would find a place to rent before we made a commitment to purchase a home. Back then many of the (acc...

Being Italian, I usually don't go to Italian restaurants. (Why pay for something I get at home). Recently we were invited to go out to dinner with my brother & sister in-law to a restaurant in Richmond, Illinois. The restaurant, "Paisano's on Broadway"  was such a pleasant surprise I've been back...