Most families at this point have a stock brokerage account. There are two types, full service and discount brokerage. A lot of families used to have old line full service brokers like Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns, but for  more...

If you live in the Greater Chicagoland area, or if you are visiting Chicago, you may want to take a day to visit Blackberry Farm. This is part of the Fox Valley Park District, in Aurora Illinois. This is a daytrip you would  more...

Lake Michigan provides hundreds of miles of great beaches, in four different states. Of all the hundreds the best I have encountered is Warren Dunes State Park, in the far Southwestern tip of Michigan. Warren Dunes has some  more...