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A four-bedroom, 4,687-square-foot mid-century modern house on a 3.5-acre, sloping lot on a bluff overlooking the Illinois River on Peoria’s north end recently was listed for $975,000. (Mark Ferrill)

Peoria home designed by noted Chicago-area architect Paul Schweikher listed for $975,000

January 13, 2026 at 9:41 a.m.

The low-slung, rambling house, which came on the market in mid-November, is one of Peoria’s most architecturally significant homes, said listing agent Mark Ferrill of RE/MAX.

The mansion at 609 Sheridan Road in Winnetka, which sold for $34.5 million in November, sits along the lakeshore on Jan. 7, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Here are the Chicago area’s top 10 home sales of 2025

January 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

For residential real estate, 2025 was the year of the Chicago-area megasale.

An expert in Caribbean literature, Nancy Cirillo taught English at the University of Illinois Chicago for more than 50 years. (Dia Cirillo)

Nancy Cirillo, UIC scholar on fascism and Atlantic slave trade, dies at 93

January 7, 2026 at 3:47 p.m.

An expert on Caribbean studies and post-colonial literature, she loved teaching, mentoring and championing her students, colleagues said.

The condo building, center, at 9 W. Walton St. in Chicago’s Near North Side neighborhood, was owned by billionaire Ken Griffin. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Meet the buyer who paid $7.4M for one of Ken Griffin’s Gold Coast condos

January 6, 2026 at 12:41 p.m.

Ken Griffin famously paid $58.75 million in 2017 for the top four floors in the building at 9 W. Walton, but he never built them out and left them as...

Edith Renfrow Smith works during an arts and crafts class on Nov. 7, 2017, at Bethany Retirement Community in Andersonville. Smith died Jan. 2, 2026, at 111. She was in a study of "SuperAgers," a group of elderly adults with the cognitive abilities of much younger adults. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Edith Renfrow Smith, part of ‘SuperAgers’ medical study, dies at 111

January 7, 2026 at 2:24 p.m.

She was the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher.

Beverly Sussman appears at a Buffalo Grove Village Board meeting on Nov. 7, 2022, when she was serving as Buffalo Grove's village president. (Brian O'Mahoney/for the Pioneer Press)

Beverly Sussman, teacher turned Buffalo Grove village president, dies at 84

January 2, 2026 at 5:56 p.m.

Beverly Sussman was an award-winning middle school science teacher in Buffalo Grove for 25 years before beginning a second act on the Buffalo Grove Village Board, where she served as...

Retired Chicago Blackhawks goalie Nikolai Khabibulin and his wife, Victoria, on Dec. 29 sold their River North condo for $1.355 million. (Bob Goldsborough)

Retired Blackhawks goalie Nikolai Khabibulin sells River North condo for $1.4M

January 2, 2026 at 12:25 p.m.

The sale price received by the Khabibulins is another indicator of the softness in condo resale prices downtown.

The current owner of the iconic “Home Alone” mansion in Winnetka wants to return the driveway configuration to its original layout, which was the one filmed in the movie as the McCallister family departs for O’Hare International Airport in two Airport Express vans.

Owner of Winnetka’s ‘Home Alone’ house wants to return the driveway configuration to the way it was in the movie

December 31, 2025 at 6:36 a.m.

The previous owner of the home removed its well-known horseshoe-style driveway.

Chicago police Detective Mike Cronin talks to handcuffed suspects in the back seat of his squad car in 1989. (Michael Fryer/baiduhai)

Michael Cronin, a Chicago police expert on West Side street gangs, dies at 81

December 30, 2025 at 5:23 p.m.

Michael Cronin was an expert on West Side street gangs for the Chicago Public Department. He cultivated informants who helped convict some of the city’s most notorious criminals.

Ballads sung by Juell Kadet, accompanied by pianist Dave Green, draw a crowd at Toulouse in May 1980 ahead of the duo's first album. (Val Mazzenga/baiduhai)

Juell Kadet, local jewelry chain executive and nightclub singer, dies at 96

December 28, 2025 at 5:18 p.m.

The Tribune in 1989 characterized Kadet as having a “sultry voice and easy style.” Kadet, 96, died Nov. 9 in her Streeterville home, her daughter said.

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