Both Sides of Lake View
List Price: $3.45 million The Property: Today’s property is a handsome brick home, once the coach house of a large estate, built in Lake View in 1913. And today’s property...
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January Deal Estate: Home Sales, News, and Trends
Sold: From Courthouse to Condos WHEATON At the historic former DuPage County Courthouse, a duplex condominium with three bedrooms and a dramatic patio in an open-air section of the clock...
Group Turns Around Distressed Properties—and Peoples’ Lives
Houses and condos that lenders take over in foreclosure often need a lot of help getting turned around into habitable places again. For one Skokie-based not-for-profit, cleaning those homes provides...
In River Forest, a Remnant of the Century of Progress
List Price: $749,000 The Property: At the Century of Progress World’s Fair held on Chicago’s lakefront from 1933 to 1934, the Federal Housing Administration exhibited a model for a house...
A Highland Fling in Wheaton
List Price: $3.265 million The Property: Everybody likes to bring home souvenirs of their travels. From a trip to Scotland, you might bring back a kilt (like the one I’m...
Chicago’s Midrange Homeowners Taking the Hardest Hits
When Zillow announced last week that Chicago is the country’s number one market for homebuyers, I snarkily replied on Twitter that, by the same token, Chicago is the number one...
Old Town Stunner Sells After Three Years
List Price: $1.08 million Sale Price: $975,000 The Property: From the street, this house, built in 1886 in Old Town, is unassuming. It’s no visual competition for its neighbors on...
A Classic Co-op with Lincoln Park Amenities Close By
List Price: $1.45 million The Property: The best of Lincoln Park comes together along Fullerton Parkway east of Clark Street, with the beautiful park, the lakefront, the zoo, the Caldwell...
Hard-Hit Homeowners Getting More Aid from Illinois
The web of assistance for struggling Illinois homeowners got a little stronger after a pair of announcements from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) last week...
Top Hospitals in Chicago and the Suburbs
When you face a health crisis, where should you go? We tapped the expertise of pros who know the metro area’s medical care better than anyone—and crunched reams of data—to...