The holidays: a time for upholding long-standing traditions, usually involving festive gatherings of family and friends, communal meals, sacred services, gift exchanges, visitors, and, invariably, crowds—until this year, that is. The coro…
With COVID-19 number surging nationwide, many of the questions that arose at the start of the pandemic last spring have come back into the foreground. Boards and property managers are struggling to explain - and enforce - rules around maski…
The coronavirus crisis has brought about many unwelcome changes to households around the world—but it has also allowed some to make or hasten lifestyle choices that were impractical or otherwise out of reach before. One such choice has been…
According to multiple news outlets, Illinois is seeing its highest numbers of COVID infections, hospitalizations, and deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Metrics are surpassing even last spring's peaks in most areas of the state. …
The challenge of creating a sense of community during a pandemic is not something most people expected to face in their lifetime...but here we are. And while face-to-face communication is an essential part of daily life for most of us, we’v…
According to a recent Women in the Workplace survey from the U.S. Green Building Council ( USGBC ), women across the green building industry are facing historic challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Of nearly 500 women survey…
Architectural Digest reports a new trend in amenities for multifamily residential buildings: on-site healthcare facilities or services that allow residents to receive medical testing or treatment at home. In this peri-pandemic era when …
As teleworking has become the new norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several methods by which association members or association boards can transact business in the absence of everyone gathering at the same time and location. …
( Editor's note: for an earlier, in-depth discussion of using reserve funds in emergencies, click here: https://chicagocooperator.com/article/tapping-reserves-in-a-time-of-crisis ) Reserve funds are a normal - and crucial - component …
As teleworking has become the new norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several methods by which association members or association boards can transact business in the absence of everyone gathering at the same time and location. …