Need a house sitter for our 2 bedroom, 2 large sitting room family house with low maintenance garden in Lansing IL. The house is 1 block from the Indiana state line and half an hour from downtown Chicago. Bus service to downtown is available at the end of the street, and commuter train line with parking facilities is about 15 minutes away. I80 is 5 minutes away. Shopping, schools, bank, post office, restaurants all within 5 minutes. Our children are doing a year of studies in France. Friendly, reliable easy-going house sitters required who are happy to live in a relatively large house that has been very much "lived in." House sitters to cover electricity, gas, water, telephone, taxes -- approx. $600 per month.