2007 Agents’ Choice Awards

The people have spoken, and this is what they have to say: the following 17 companies are the best of the best in the Chicago real estate industry.

Chicago Agent’s second annual Agents’ Choice Awards survey winners were selected by our readers, who voted through an online poll.

The online survey featured categories ranging from “Favorite Web Site” to “Favorite Place to Live” and “Favorite Architect.” Inside the following pages, you will find the companies and places that our Realtor readers voted their favorites in Chicago, from downtown to Oswego, and everything in between. You will see photos of these award-winning projects and hear straight from the winners what makes these companies, buildings and communities the most beloved around.

These are your favorites, Chicago, so take a look at the companies and projects that the industry is raving about.


FAVORITE ECO-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY - CITY
Emerald
When developing Emerald, Senco Properties, Harlem Irving Companies and New Frontiers Companies partnered to create a quality dwelling that encourages an eco-sensitive lifestyle in a hip, urban neighborhood.

A totally “green” 8,000-square-foot lobby links Emerald’s twin 12-story towers, distinguishing the 212-home development and establishing glamorous additional living space for its residents with a stylish great room and electronically-equipped conference and home-office center.

Emerald also boasts a chic, trendy bar that rivals any in Chicago’s club scene. The space showcases fashionable, sustainable products and furnishings with a spectacular futuristic lighting system using energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that operate at an estimated 3 percent of the cost of conventional lighting while creating stunning abstract art.

John Robert Wiltgen, a member of the International Interior Design Association, designed the lobby, while Pappageorge Haymes, Ltd. of Chicago served as architect.



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