Maybe Third Time’s the Charm in Kenilworth
List Price: $3.795 million Sale Price: $3.25 million The Property: At the end of September, this Kenilworth mansion sold at a steep discount for the third time in three and...
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Rekindling a Post-Fire Row House in Lincoln Park
List Price: $2.599 million The Property: In the years just after the Great Chicago Fire—whose 141st anniversary is Monday—the prolific architect Edward Burling put up numerous buildings in the city,...
Four Real-Estate/Architecture Events
You can tell it’s fall when the calendar starts to fill up with must-do events. Here are four that should interest people intrigued by Chicago architecture and real estate...
The Best We Could Get Was 88th Place?
A new national ranking of suburbs came out last week, bringing with it two surprises for Chicagoans. The first surprise was that a place many don’t even know exists...
Mr. Big Stuff Eats Crow
List Price: $749,900 Sale Price: $685,000 The Property: In June, Scott Sasse, a real-estate agent who specializes in the West Loop, e-mailed me the listing for his own condo, which...
Jim McMahon’s Former Home Prepped for Another Championship Season
List Price: $4.954 million The Property: On an elite wooded street in east Northbrook stands a substantial house with exterior details that you might find on some historical country homes...
Mother Cabrini Shrine Reopens
At the base of Lincoln Park 2550, a posh condo tower nearing completion at Lakeview Avenue and St. James Place, a modest set of classical columns flanks the project’s southeast...
Odd Façades: E is for Erie, F is for Fish
The Properties: The façades of two recently sold new houses in the city feature big, playful visual puns—and each of them is part of a different builder’s long-range game plan...
Elmhurst’s Checkerboard Chimney Charmer
List Price: $850,000 The Property: From first sight, it’s obvious that this Normandy-style home has a lot of history in Elmhurst. Built in 1930 as part of a subdivision...
Sales of Distressed Properties on Two-Month Upswing
After a few months of declines, sales of Chicago-area homes that were either foreclosed or sold for less than the value of the mortgage increased in both July and August.