When Mollie Green, owner of stationery line La Familia Green, and Pete Zimmerman, radio producer for the show The Download on WGN Radio, decided to buy their first home together, they didn’t go into it lightly. After looking for houses for a year, Mollie looked up every “for sale” sign she came across. The couple […]

When Mollie Green, owner of stationery line La Familia Green, and Pete Zimmerman, radio producer for the show The Download on WGN Radio, decided to buy their first home together, they didn’t go into it lightly. After looking for houses for a year, Mollie looked up every “for sale” sign she came across. The couple knew that they wanted a home in the Edgewater neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, near Lake Michigan. They were drawn to the tree-filled block that was so inviting, and landed in a 1908 classic Chicago Four Square. “All the houses on our little block have the same basic design; 1908 is significant in Chicago — it’s the last time (before last year) that the Cubs won the World Series,” Mollie shares. One item of their wish list was a house with lots of natural light, which they were able to find, with big windows and high ceilings. “Because it’s on a small lot, with no alley or garage, the price was in our budget,” Mollie says. “We didn’t think we would be able to afford a single-family house in this neighborhood. The previous owners had done a lot of w...