Cam Barker, the 23-year-old Blackhawks defenseman who signed a three-year, $9.25-million contract with the team in early July, has bought a condo on the top floor of a new building in Bucktown..." /> Cam Barker, the 23-year-old Blackhawks defenseman who signed a three-year, $9.25-million contract with the team in early July, has bought a condo on the top floor of a new building in Bucktown..." /> Cam Barker, the 23-year-old Blackhawks defenseman who signed a three-year, $9.25-million contract with the team in early July, has bought a condo on the top floor of a new building in Bucktown..." />
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The Great Terrace — Glencoe

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List Price: $4.2 million
The Property: A new ten-room residence on a quiet block-long street that ends at a Lake Michigan overlook, this house has an overlook of its own: a super-sized third-story terrace with a view over the ranch house next door to the lake.

The Hardest-Hit Communities

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Each October, with help from Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicago publishes its annual real-estate chart, which, among other things, shows the average price of a house in all 77 city neighborhoods and more than 200 suburbs. The chart also notes how this year’s prices compare to the prior year and to 1994, the earliest year for which MRED has data for most of those neighborhoods and towns. Usually that comparison with 1994 is a heartening measure of the long-term growth in the value of a Chicago-area home.

Shakespeare in the (Lincoln) Park

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Shakespeare in the (Lincoln) Park
List Price: Unit C-3 — $999,000
List Price: Unit D-1 — $999,000
The Property: These two condos in the building known as the Shakespeare Co-Op have approximately the same floor plan and exactly the same price. But both places have different finishes, most notably in…

Burr Ridge Drops Out of the $1-Million Club

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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…