DESTINATION: SOUTH SIDE (From Chicago Tribune)

Chicago's South Side is attracting home shoppers and buyers these days from well beyond its borders.Prices in most neighborhoods have shown healthy increases, outstripping many more affluent city and suburban communities.Ironically, the effects of decades of disinvestment in some South Side neighborhoods has contributed to a revival of residential development: a good stock of high-quality buildings to rehab and plenty of vacant land to build on.

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