List Price: $18 million
UPDATED Price Reduction as of 7/10: $15 million
The Property: This grand home on Lake Forest’s Mayflower Road is truly one of the most magnificent ever built in Chicago. The 27-room mansion was completed in 1915 as a wedding gift from John G. Shedd, then the president of Marshall Field & Co., to his daughter, Laura, newly married to Charles Schweppe…
By now, it’s pretty well known that the foreclosure crisis is no longer limited to lower-income households. Large numbers of middle- and upper-income homeowners are falling into default, too. But a new report from the Woodstock Institute points out that, in many parts of the Chicago region, more affluent households are far less likely than lower-income homeowners to get specialized counseling about the foreclosure process—and that could potentially…
List Price: $1,400,000
Sale Price: $1,075,000
The Property: With its assortment of beams, arches, and crenellations, this brick and limestone mansion on a Beverly hillside suggests an old English home that has been added to and changed over many generations. Locals speculate that was the intention of…
List Price: $1.399 million
The Property: Typical of the mid-century modern houses designed by Keck & Keck, this house in Budlong Woods presents to the street a low, somewhat inscrutable profile and then opens big inside: the L-shaped, 1,000-square-foot living and dining area has a 38-foot-long south wall that is virtually all windows…
Bill Rancic, the Chicagoan who first won Donald Trump’s TV reality show The Apprentice, has turned out to be the buyer of a foreclosed condo at the Park Tower that I wrote about here in early June. Rancic had also shown up in the July issue of Chicago after he and his wife sold a Gold Coast graystone for…
List Price: $3.125 million
Sale Price: $2.725 million
The Property: Although he hasn’t skated for the Chicago Blackhawks since 2004, Alexei Zhamnov held on to his 11-room Lincoln Park home until last week, closing on its sale on June 24th…
List Price: $4.975 million
The Property: You could prowl the streets of the Gold Coast for a long time (as I have) and hardly notice this 4,000-square-foot home. Originally built in 1888 as the coach house for two Astor Street houses, this residence now conceals itself behind draping vines and an almost invisible charcoal-colored brick façade…
Earlier this month, Vince Gerasole of CBS2 Chicago reported that a Ronda Fish of Sudler Sotheby. The house is being marketed as a private listing, which means it’s not included among properties at Midwest Real Estate Data. The sellers are Sherwin and Deborah Jarol; Sherwin is the managing partner of Bradley Associates, a Chicago commercial … Read more
List Price: $2.195 million
Sale Price: $1.8 million
The Property: This handsome Georgian with 14 rooms stands on a lush two thirds of an acre on Sheridan Road in Winnetka. Michael Moskow, who was the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago until retiring in 2007, owned the house for 32 years before selling it…
List Price: $849,000
The Property: I felt an urge to ring for the butler and have him fetch my tuxedo as I toured this elegant four-bedroom home in a 1926 co-op building near Belmont Harbor. The expansive floor plan takes you back to the glamour of the Jazz Age, and a recent renovation updated the home’s mechanicals while polishing up its vintage…
