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Re-Wright

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When a young Oak Park couple finally bought the Frank Lloyd Wright house they had long admired, they teamed up with top-of-the-line talent to make a good house great

That Sinking Feeling

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When Matt and Sarah Adess moved into their Wicker Park condo in 2000, they didn’t realize they were buying intoa six-year nightmare. A cautionary tale about new construction gone terribly bad

Deal Estate Condos – October 2006

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Nostalgia Nation Developers of Rainbo Village pay homage to the site’s sentimental past Illustration: courtesy ofMetropolitan Development Enterprise UptownFrom $256,900 to $752,900 Developers of the five contemporary buildings going up at Clark Street and Lawrence Avenue have christened the project Rainbo Village-not because of the structures’ colorful exteriors, but in tribute to the Rainbo Roller … Read more

Deal Estate – Topping the Charts

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This year’s roundup of the highest prices paid for homes in the metropolitan area shows that the Gold Coast deserves its name Photography: Chris Guillen WinnetkaSale Price: $8.1 million In 1832, the chief economic enterprise in the burgeoning settlement of Chicago was John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company. Nearly 175 years later, the Near North … Read more

Sale of the Week – Hinsdale

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List Price: $3.428 million Sale Price: $2.75 million The Property: This 9,400-square-foot house is one of several newcomers on a street in southeast Hinsdale. It has four levels, including the basement, all served by an elevator. "You can stand on the top floor and look all the way to the lowest level as the staircase … Read more

New On the Market – Chicago’s Gold Coast

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List price: $2.195 million The Property: This slender townhouse, built in 1883, stands on one of the Gold Coast’s loveliest streets, punctuated on its east end with a view of Lake Michigan across Lake Shore Drive. The beautifully renovated house-owned by Frank James, an executive at Bear Sterns, and his wife, Sandy-is just 16 feet … Read more

Shanghai Express

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Shanghai is building fast. Now its leaders have given themselves a sharp deadline—the 2010 World Expo—to make a distinctive architectural mark to go along with a large concrete footprint. Among the projects of interest are three by major Chicago firms