Chicago-area Members: Help Please

[PK8]

My wife and I have been looking for an '04-06 X5 for some time now. Good X5's for a "reasonable" price are hard to find where we live, so we've expanded our search to include dealers in the Chicago area (approx. 500 miles from us).

Bill Jacobs has an '05 X5 4.4 (blue w/gray leather) with approx. 49k miles, currently asking about $24k (Link: http://bmw.billjacobsinventory.com/2....4i-c-1039.htm).

Do any of you happen to be familiar with this X5 (maybe even looked at/driven it)?

Any thoughts on Bill Jacobs or any other area dealers/sellers (including Chicago Cars Direct)?

I'm also wondering if any of you might be willing to help out a fellow member and take a look at this X5? I ask only because I assume there are a lot of people out there like me who are always looking for a good excuse to go check out cars on the lots!

BTW, some of you may have read or replied (thank you!) to a recent post of mine about two "local" X5s that we were considering. It turns out that one of those X5s (of course, the one we were strongly leaning towards) has had some rear-end damage, so we have cooled somewhat on that X5 and, as noted above, have geographically expanded our search.

Thanks!!

PK