Beachy Keen in Edgewater
List Price: $1.495 million Sale Price: $1.2 million The Property: Behind the crazy glass, steel, and brick geometry of this Edgewater townhouse lies a distinctive space: a 10-room home from...
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Old Town in Bloom
List Price: $5.7 million The Property: Over the past ten years, this perfectly nice vintage home in Old Town has bloomed. Opened up with the addition of a second lot...
A Recessionary Boom: Condo Rental Management
Soon after T. J. Rubin got into the apartment leasing business in late 2008, the market had some news for him: He was mostly going to be in the condo...
Glencoe House Joins Neighbor in $4 Million-Plus Club
List Price: $4.5 million Sale Price: $4.5 million The Property: When it sold October 11, this home on the bluff above Lake Michigan in Glencoe was the second on its...
Afloat Over Lake View in a Milton Schwartz Penthouse
List Price: $669,000 The Property: Milton Schwartz was a modernist Chicago architect best known for later buildings like the Hotel 71 (formerly the Executive House) on Wacker Drive and the...
Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, Facing Foreclosure, Sells Short
Two years after she listed her Hyde Park home for sale with an optimistic asking price, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun has sold it as a short...
Kenwood’s Double Shot of Frank Lloyd Wright
Last week, two neighboring homes in Kenwood both came on the market on the same day at the same price, $1.48 million. Although they hardly resemble one another, they have...
Fisher Condo Finally Reels in a Buyer
List Price: $1,095,000 Sale Price: $1,159,000 The Property: The largest and most lavishly ornamented condo in the landmark art moderne Fisher Studio Houses sold October 9 after more than three...
Keck & Keck in Flossmoor
List Price: $425,000 The Property: Chicagoans first saw the architecture of the Keck brothers at the Century of Progress Exposition, the world’s fair held here along Lake Michigan in 1933...
A Baby Boomlet in Bridgeport
In another sign of the renaissance of family living in the city, a townhouse development in urban Bridgeport is witnessing a baby boom of the sort that’s usually associated with...