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Burr Ridge Drops Out of the $1-Million Club

Burr Ridge Drops Out of the $1-Million Club Chicago’s annual real estate-charts in its October 2009 issue (which hits newsstands this week) reveal lots of declines in both sale prices and the number of homes sold in 288 Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs. But one decline demands a closer look: what happened in Burr Ridge? That suburb...

Posted 09/16/09 at 07:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sale of the Week

Twitter’s New COO Sells in Wilmette

Twitter’s New COO Sells in Wilmette List Price: $1,449,000
Sale Price: $1,400,000
The Property: Two weeks before he was named chief operating officer of the San Francisco-based microblogging service Twitter, Dick Costolo sold his 12-room home in central Wilmette...

Posted 09/14/09 at 08:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On the Market

A Three-Way at Carl Street Studios

A Three-Way at Carl Street Studios List Price: $2.6 million
The Property: Beginning in the late 1920s, Sol Kogen and Edgar Miller, two former classmates at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, transformed a faded Victorian mansion in Lincoln Park into what Kogen originally hoped would become an artists’ compound like those he had seen in Paris’s Montmartre district. Unable to rein in their urge to...

Posted 09/10/09 at 01:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Housing Bulletin

Johnson’s Stacks

Johnson’s Stacks Over the past few months, as the new 47-story condo tower at Van Buren and Franklin Streets has taken shape, it’s become clear that the city has another Ralph Johnson dazzler on its hands. Known as 235 Van Buren, the building impresses from all viewpoints, be it the seemingly crazy pattern of box balconies projecting off the south side; the ribbon of concrete running...

Posted 09/09/09 at 08:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sale of the Week

Ex-Cub Mark Prior Sells His Lincoln Park Townhouse

Ex-Cub Mark Prior Sells His Lincoln Park Townhouse List Price: $695,000
Sale Price: $676,000
The Property: The pitcher Mark Prior has sold the Lincoln Park townhouse that he bought in 2002 several months after arriving in Chicago to great expectations. Prior left the Cubs in December 2007, but he didn’t put the four-bedroom townhouse on the market until...

Posted 09/07/09 at 07:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On the Market

Urban Wowboy

Urban Wowboy List Price: $1.899 million
The Property: Among the sharpest buildings from the city’s recent years of condo buildup is the five-year-old Contemporaine, a modern 15-story concrete and glass design by the estimable Ralph Johnson.

Posted 09/03/09 at 01:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Housing Bulletin

Turret Syndrome

Turret Syndrome Christopher Kowalski’s home may not be his castle, but his guesthouse sure is. A three-bedroom castle complete with turrets, gargoyles, and rooftop battlements, the guesthouse stands about 50 yards away from the four-bedroom Tudor home where Kowalski and his wife, Grace, have lived since 1990...

Posted 09/02/09 at 07:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sale of the Week

Lake Forest’s “Dinky Dump”

Lake Forest’s “Dinky Dump” List Price: $1,795,000
Sale Price: $1,550,000
The Property: In a town where the elite have long lived in mansions with lyrical names such as Elawa, Bagatelle, and Clinola, this handsome house got saddled with an unfortunate moniker: Dinky Dump...

Posted 08/31/09 at 08:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On the Market

The Newest Old House in Glencoe

The Newest Old House in Glencoe List Price: $5.3 million
The Property: Although brand new, this 18-room house on a wooded half-acre in Glencoe could easily be mistaken for a holdover from a bygone era of handsome country homes. George Adamczyk, a veteran builder of (by his count) 115...

Posted 08/27/09 at 11:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Housing Bulletin

A Second Home Search Engine

A Second Home Search Engine If you are one of the fortunate few looking for a second home, you may want to check out the Niche Properties Network, which showcases second-home properties on eight different websites. Those sites are only a few weeks old now and have very few listings, but this week the company is starting a concerted push to get real-estate agents to sign on with...

Posted 08/26/09 at 07:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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