91 Weatherholt Drive, Mascoutah, IL, 62265

Some houses are near the fun. This one IS the fun. It's June Jamboree weekend. The park across the street is already buzzing, the kitchen island is covered edge to edge with food, and the cooler is sitting by the back door. By the time the parade rolls past the front yard, half the town knows where the lawn chairs are. For years this has been the house: the pre-party, the after-party, the place everybody ends up. In the fall, the crockpots line up on that island for chili cook-off day, and with two ovens nobody fights over space. On Halloween, you hand out candy from the front porch while the whole town trick-or-treats past your door. All summer, the pool is a flip-flop walk away. The kids go, come back for lunch, and go right back. Then comes the quiet Tuesday after, and that's when this house really becomes yours. Coffee under the vaulted ceiling. Morning light pouring through the big front window. The park is right there across the road, calm again until the next celebration. The main floor was made for both kinds of days. Kitchen, dining and living share one wide-open room under that vaulted ceiling, so whoever's cooking is never out of the conversation. The kitchen has oak cabinets, a center island big enough for the whole spread, and a gas double-oven range. The dining area has its own back door, so it's easy for guests to step in and out. Two bedrooms, a full bath and a real laundry room with a utility sink and drop-zone hooks keep daily life on one level. Downstairs, the finished basement is where the party moves after dark or where everyone crashes the next morning. It has a huge rec room with recessed lighting, a second full bath with a walk-in shower, bonus rooms for an office, gym or overflow guests, and a walk-in storage room. The oversized attached 2-car garage, nearly 24 x 23, fits your gear and the parade-day overflow.Whether it's your first set of keys or your next, simpler chapter, this is a house where the memories come to you. You can update a kitchen. You can't move a house across from the park. The next parade is coming. Be the one with the yard where everyone wants to be!

The street's named Leisure. The house lives up to it. Pull up to 403 Leisure and the first thing you notice is shade. Two mature trees out front, standing there longer than most of the houses around them. Walk in and it opens up. Vaulted ceilings over the main living area. Brick fireplace anchoring the room. Clean sight lines from the front window all the way back to the kitchen. Nobody cooks alone in this house. Whoever's at the stove is still in the conversation. Out back is where it earns its keep. Paver patio sized for the grill. Wood deck with string lights already hung. Privacy fence. Big shade tree in the corner of the yard. It's the kind of backyard where an ordinary Friday runs two hours long. Fire pit going, kids running, nobody in a hurry to leave. Day to day, here's what makes it work. 1,454 square feet, all on one level, not one wasted foot. Three bedrooms, two full baths. The primary is a true suite, private bath and glass door shower. Two more bedrooms down the hall with the second full bath, and one of them, shiplap accent wall and all, is set up as an office right now if you don't need the third. The kitchen is bright and crisp. White cabinetry, black hardware, tile backsplash, white appliances that stay. Vinyl plank flooring that handles boots, dogs, and spilled coffee without flinching. Main floor laundry right off it with a utility sink and cabinet storage. No hauling a full basket up and down stairs. Ever. Two car garage, finished and lit up bright, with pull down attic access for the totes you only touch twice a year. Storage shed out back for the mower and the lawn gear. At this size storage is usually the problem. Here it isn't. Short commute to Scott AFB. Truly move in ready, in a town people actually want to be in, at a price that still makes sense.nClean, updated ranches in New Baden don't linger. They never do.

Commercial corner lot in the growing town of New Baden. This property is about 1 min off the I-64 #27 exit ramp on State Route 161. With 36,000+/- traffic count just down the road on the interstate. A new business could easily capitalize on this great location. The property is on a corner lot of a commercial road/subdivision entrance. Could be a great spot for a grab-n-go type business, fast food restaurant, coffee shop, nail shop, fitness center, & more. Next door is a tax/accounting business with Dollar General next to it. Location is in city limits with in the business district.