Five Suburban Bungalows Under $500,000
The original affordable Chicago home can sometimes still be a reasonable option.
The original affordable Chicago home can sometimes still be a reasonable option.
Owning and maintaining one of these landmarked properties — once home to politicians, car showrooms, and more — are great ways to help preserve the city’s architectural history.
One of the original streets laid out by surveyor James Thompson in his 1830 plat of what is now the Loop, Clark Street has some great homes on the market now.
Because not all country mice want to live in a cottage-core house.
There is no doubt that the communities bordering Chicago are considered suburbs, even if it can sometimes be difficult to tell them apart from the city itself due to their density and infrastructure (they even share the same street names and public transportation systems). One such town is Evanston, but there’s also Lincolnwood, an inner … Read more
On the television show The Brady Bunch, the character Mike Brady was an architect who designed a midcentury split-level home for his family, which included a wife, six children, a live-in housekeeper, and a dog. Occasionally, viewers could see him working at a drafting table in his den. The show evokes a sense of pop … Read more
These former two-, three-, and four-flats once housed multiple families.
Wright regarded this home as an exceptionally important design in his development as an architect, even referring to it as “the prairie house.”