Windy City Rehabhas connected with viewers like few otherHGTV showshave.
“These are high-stakes projects that could spiral out of control at any minute.
It’s big risks and big rewards.”
Get ready for the untold truth of HGTV’sWindy City Rehab.
“It’s an even bigger dream to be rehabbing, like, a ton of them now.”
It’s something in which the lifelong Chicagoan takes immense pride, and she comes by it naturally.
“The passion comes from being born and raised here.
She continued, “And I fixed it.
And instead of people running by, they would stop and take photos of this house.
And I knew that I wanted to keep doing that on every single street in Chicago.”
And hope for the best, sometimes expect the worst.”
“The timing couldn’t have been more perfect.”
“I didn’t know what that meant,” Victoria explained.
The job wasn’t glamorous, but Victoria saw the possibilities it presented.
I was like, ‘Done, I’ll take it,'" she said at the2015 AOLBUILDSeries.
“I was like, ‘Wait, they’re all dudes.
There should be a woman in this space,'” she toldHouse Beautiful.
“You have to be scared,” she toldA Drink With.
“If you’re not scared, then what is it worth?
I was so scared toquit my job.
I was 22, making a lot ofmoneybut I was [not happy].”
“One night, we went to a Blackhawks game and started talking about renovating old buildings.
And we decided there and then to do it.
I still remember us laughing and saying, ‘Let’s buy a building!'”
“We don’t leave one single detail unturned,” she continued.
“We’re meticulous in the way we build.
I’m meticulous in the way I design.”
“Not all of the rehabs make money,” Alison Victoria admitted in an interview withParade.
“Some of them, I actually have to pay our investor back at the end.”
“So it’s not about the profit,” she added.
Another new venture wasSophisticated Livingmagazine, which launched in 2019 with Victoria as publisher.
According to Victoria, she brings the same passion viewers see onWindy City Rehabto her publishing venture.
“I’m bringingsexyback to home building and publishing,” she added.
In fact,Deadlinepointed out thatWindy City Rehabwas HGTV’s No.
“The negative side is that the TV crews don’t show what goes into all of this.
I don’t think TV depicts all the decisions that pop up and require us to change course.”
“It would be a very boring show if someone really showed what we did.”
“you’re able to’t start until 8 a.m.,” said neighbor Jacquie Vidmar.
“They start sooner and then they all pretend they don’t know.
They were clearly on a very aggressive timetable.”
Eckhardt responded to the complaints.
“We’re trying our absolute best to be the best neighbors we can,” he said.
“I understand it’s frustrating to live next to construction.
But at the end of the day I think we’re doing really good work.
I’m a neighbor.
I live in Bucktown, and I’m proud to drive by every single home we’ve done.”
Subsequently, Cunningham stated that Alison Victoria had taken steps to comply with the department’s concerns.
“She is making an effort to clean her permit applications up,” he told theChicago Sun-Times.
“We appreciate the efforts to come into compliance.”
Victoria also teased that the second season ofWindy City Rehabwould return in the early part of 2020.
