New On the Market-Prairie Grandeur in Evanston

List Price: $3,700,000 The Property: A lovely brick Prairie-style mansion that faces Lake Michigan across a quiet park, this 13-room house with numerous front windows seems designed to bask in the morning sun as it rises over the water. The house was built in 1909, designed by the Prairie architects Tallmadge and Watson. (Thomas Eddy … Read more

Sale of the Week-Pillar of Wicker Park

List Price: $2,500,000 Sale Price: $2,466,700 The Property: Once one of Wicker Park’s grandest mansions, this enormous Second Empire-style home from 1879 was divided into apartments early in the 20th Century and stayed that way until now. A buyer, not yet identified by the seller or public records, made a $2.46 million deal with seller … Read more

New On the Market-Modernist Serenity in Glencoe

List Price: $2,150,000 The Property: Elegant in its spareness, this five-bedroom in Glencoe is a quintessential mid-century modernist home in mint condition. Designed by the great Chicago architects Keck & Keck in 1960 for a member of the Florsheim family, the house has all the Kecks’ characteristic simplicity and embrace of its natural setting. Distinguished … Read more

Housing Bulletin-The Money‘s on Lisle

Four Chicago suburbs got the nod from Money magazine on its 2007 list of Best Places to Live in the U.S., released on Monday, and while they’re all perfectly lovely places to live, the choices show the editors’ fondness for quiet, outlying bedroom communities. Which might be precisely what Money‘s readers prefer; after all, they’re … Read more