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Well-Manored in Beverly
By Dennis Rodkin
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... Read more
A Keck House in its Retro Prime—Budlong Woods
By Dennis Rodkin
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... Read more
Bill Rancic Buys and Sells—and Other Celebrity News
By Dennis Rodkin
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... Read more
On the Market: Hiding in Plain Sight on the Gold Coast
By Dennis Rodkin
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... Read more
Sale of the Week: Moskow’s Retreat — Winnetka
By Dennis Rodkin
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... Read more
On the Market: All That Jazz — Lake View
By Dennis Rodkin
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... Read more
Housing Bulletin: More Park for Forest Park?
By Dennis Rodkin
UPDATED Municipal leaders in Forest Park are eying a failed condo and townhouse development as an ideal place to expand the village’s 12-acre Station Park. But first voters must approve the plan in a referendum scheduled for next spring... Read more
Sale of the Week: A Tale of Four Houses—North Shore
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.9 million
Sale Price: $1 million
The Property: Today’s house, situated in an unincorporated area near Winnetka, once carried a price tag of $5.1 million. But that price was for a finished home—and not only was this house never finished, but the company that built it ended up handing the home back to its lender, Mutual Bank, last October. On May 26th, the bank... Read more