If you're looking for information about a particular suburb or a neighborhood in the city of Chicago, check out the Chicago Tribune's Real Estate website. It has a lot of great information and detailed profiles for hundreds of communities.

Frustrated buyers, we have found a great tool for you! Beatyouthere.com is a real estate website that launched this week with over two million property listings - designed for the homebuyer who wants all of the info! Beatyouthere.com features a unique interactive tool, so that registered users can post comments and review listings, homes they've visited or even realtors that they've worked with. And it makes perfect sense. After all, we check out reviews of restaurants before we eat there, why wouldn't we do our homework on a purchase as major as a home?