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Chicago in a week: Aug 1-5

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According to a recent report released by Dodge & Data Analytics, residential construction in Chicago increased in June and for the first part of the year compared with numbers seen the year prior. The report includes Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Jasper, Kane, Kendall, Kenosha, Lake, McHenry, Newton, Porter and Will counties in Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois

Chicagoland agents Mary Haight, Joe Zimmerman, Josh Weinberg and Tommy Choi announced their partnership under the Keller Williams umbrella for the first Keller Williams market center in Lincoln Park.

Graphiq has launched crime portals in San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore and New York City, with plans to roll out the maps across a few dozen cities over the next year. The crime portals update live with how crimes have trended over time in Chicago ZIP codes.

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