A Lake View Penthouse That’s Really a Penthouse
List Price: $895,000 The Property: It’s common in new buildings to have several floors of penthouses. But in a 1926 co-op on Lake Shore Drive in Lake View, there’s just...
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Protecting Renters in Foreclosed Buildings
Between 2009 and 2011, about 10 percent of Chicago’s rental housing passed through some stage of foreclosure, often leaving paid-up tenants in a gray area when a building’s foreclosing lender...
Buyers Feel Kinship to Hemingway Home
List Price: $525,000 Sale Price: $525,000 The Property: Kurt and Mary Jane Neumann, who will move into Ernest Hemingway’s childhood home this week, feel ties not only to the famed...
A New Mexico Adobe in Western Lake Forest
List Price: $2.395 million The Property: In the early 1980s, John and Sarabess Cahill fell in love with New Mexico—only John’s business was in Evanston. What to do? “We brought...
Summer Homes Harbor Hope for Change
As the warmth and ease of this sunny season kick in, many people dream of owning a summer home. In Benton Harbor, Michigan, an ambitious residential development around a golf...
Living Outside the Box in Northbrook
List Price: $875,000 Sale Price: $840,000 The Property: “Northbrook is a subdivision town,” says Nancy Gibson. “Almost everything is boxes...
In Lincoln Park, Something Suburban This Way Comes
List Price: $1.85 million The Property: Although it’s now jammed with strollers and baby boutiques, west Lincoln Park wasn’t nearly as family-friendly 20 years ago, when Jonathan Peabody and Lindsey...
Trump Tower’s “Ridiculist” $32 Million Condo
A 14,000-square-foot penthouse atop the Trump International Hotel and Tower snagged lots of media coverage last week for being the loftiest home in the western hemisphere and, at $32 million,...
At Lake Forest House Sale, Less Is Less
List Price: $1.45 million Sale Price: $1.15 million The Property: This Lake Forest house, a dark glass pavilion done in the “less is more” style of Ludwig Mies van der...
In Lincoln Park, Yesterday Meets Today
List Price: $4.5 million The Property: In Lincoln Park, where residences from yesterday and today freely mingle, today’s property is clearly new. But it doesn’t shriek 2012. Instead, its looks...