"I've stayed in quite a few - or not to say a lot - of Airbnb apartments so far, but both Kenneth's place and Kenneth as a host rank at the top of my best experiences. In the midst of the rumbling, metropolitan jungle of Chicago's Pilsen area, next to a busy highway, you enter the peaceful little gem of Kenneth's upstairs apartment. No, wait, scrap little: the apartment is big, beautiful and unique. Compiled of things people didn't use anymore, but with Kenneth's imagination, taste and skilled hands have become part of a place that to me instantly felt like home. In some way the interior reminds me of this old house in the southern Provence, in France. But when you walk out onto the deck you find you are in Chicago.

I must also say what has been said before in other reviews, but can't be said enough: Kenneth really goes out of his way for his guests. After the fresh bagels from the bakery he provided were consumed - they are too good! - i found homebaked bread under the glass dome in the kitchen. In the few days I was there Kenneth and I regularly met for a chat and a coffee at the kitchen table. Kenneth's dog should earn a Best Airbnb Host Dog honour. Each time I came home she came up to welcome me. For those who don't like dogs, when you close the little dogdoor in the kitchen-door, she won't come in. But after coming home from my conference each day - and being a big dog fan myself - i enjoyed the company of this black lab, who was rescued by Kenneth from an abandoned nest of puppies somewhere in Mississippi."