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Over the years, Baird & Warner agents often have celebrated the most important day of their clients' lives by giving a Baird & Warner-branded closing gift. One that really resonated was the Baird & Warner cookbook produced in the 1980s. Filled with recipes for such classics as fried chicken, apple pie, chili and Thanksgiving turkey – and of course, Jell-O...

Anyone who's ever attended a live show or enjoyed one of the many restaurants in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood might be surprised to know it was once a beach resort community. In fact, Uptown was originally known as the Uptown Sand Dunes, and city dwellers frequently made the trek from downtown for a cool dip in Lake Michigan. In 1889, the neighborhood becam...

Did you know that without Baird & Warner, some of Chicago's North Shore communities might not be as popular as they are today? After World War I, Chicago enjoyed a building boom that continued until the Great Depression. In fact, between 1900 and 1920, the population of the North Shore exploded. A big reason for the growth was the construction of more train...

In honor of Fair Housing Month, we wanted to share more about Baird & Warner's long history of doing the right thing when it comes to opening up housing opportunities for all. When John Baird, father of our current president, Steve Baird, was president in the 1960s, there were ongoing fair housing debates at the local, state, and federal levels. Some civic l...

In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire burned 70,000 homes and destroyed over $200 million ($3.8 billion today) of property. Baird & Warner (known as Baird & Bradley in 1871) was 16 years old and specialized in mortgage lending, property management, and insurance. The company had seen the city's population triple since opening their doors, and they were growing rapidly, to...
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