RE/MAX Northern Illinois Real Estate Network Honors Algonquin, Crystal Lake, Lake Zurich and Palatine Offices

Elgin, IL, May 29, 2010 --(PR.com)-- RE/MAX Unlimited Northwest, with offices in Algonquin, Crystal Lake, Lake Zurich and Palatine, Ill., recently was honored by the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network for outstanding 2009 fund raising efforts on behalf of Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago and the Children’s Miracle Network (CMN).

The four offices, representing approximately 100 sales associates, received the Outstanding Citizen Award for donating more than $12,000 to CMN last year, with all those funds benefitting Children’s Memorial. RE/MAX Unlimited Northwest ranked third in fund raising among brokerages affiliated with the regional RE/MAX network.

In total, the network raised more than $120,000 for CMN. Donations by RE/MAX in northern Illinois go primarily to Children’s Memorial, while funds collected in the far western portion the of region benefit the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City.

RE/MAX is the leader in northern Illinois real estate sales and has been number one in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market since 1989. In 2009, the RE/MAX network in northern Illinois closed more than $6 billion in sales.

The RE/MAX Northern Illinois network consists of 2,500 associates and 121 individually owned and operated RE/MAX offices that provide residential, relocation and commercial real estate services throughout the northern one-third of Illinois. The network’s Web sites, www.illinoisproperty.com and www.remax.com, are two of the most popular real estate Web sites in northern Illinois and nationwide, respectively, according to Compete.com, Comscore and Hitwise, which are online intelligence services.

RE/MAX Northern Illinois is part of RE/MAX International, a global real estate organization with 6,500 independently owned offices and 93,000 member sales associates in 78 nations.

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