The South Loop by the Light of Day
List Price: $839,000 The Property: It’s no surprise to find lots of daylight surrounding you on the rooftop deck of today’s property, a three-bedroom condo in an old South Loop...
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Cook County Puts Property Tax, Deed Info in One Place
Earlier this month, Cook County rolled out a one-stop website that pulls together information on a property’s taxes, ownership, and assessment—each of which came from a different website in the...
A Fun Project in River North
List Price: $4.475 million Sale Price: $4.025 million The Property: A four-story, six-bedroom River North house that a couple built for the fun of it in 2008 sold on April...
A Sophisticated Gold Coast Condo
List Price: $3.3 million The Property: In Chicago’s toddlin’ times, an era when train travel was the height of elegance, the Ambassador East and Ambassador West hotels were regular stops...
Life in the Slow Lane: Get Used To It
A new federal report has provided yet another sign that Chicago’s housing market is in the slow lane on the road to recovery. The report, issued last week with the...
Foreclosure Comes to Exclusive Woodley Road
List Price: $1.549 million Sale Price: $1.537 million The Property: An 11,600-square-foot mansion on Woodley Road outside Winnetka has the dubious distinction of being the first foreclosure sale in that...
A Can-Do Condo Builder in Kenwood
List Prices: $199,000 to $369,000 The Property: When work halted on a boom-years condo project meant to fill an unsightly gap in a block of historical homes in Kenwood, Lewis...
Federal Vouchers Will Help 100 Homeless Cook County Veterans
About six months from now, 100 homeless military veterans in Cook County will have a place to live, thanks to a $760,872 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and...
What Sold for $1 Million in March
During the month of March, four homes each sold for exactly $1 million. There’s nothing magical about that number, but as benchmarks go, it has an undeniable appeal. So what...
From Bathhouse to Your House, in East Village
List Price: $2.2 million The Property: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, working-class immigrants were pouring into Chicago, many of them into housing with little or no indoor...