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Dennis Rodkin
In a Down Market, Flatlining Can Be a Good Thing
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.299 million
Sale Price: $1.325 million
The Property: The roofline isn’t the only thing about this Lake View house that is flat. On November 2, it sold for the third time in its six-year lifespan—and it went for roughly the same amount as it had the first two times... Read more
The Shop Around the Corner—Now a Lake View Condo
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $950,000
The Property: East Lake View is now so full of restaurants and homes that it’s hard to imagine that, just a century ago, a swath of it around Halsted and Aldine Streets was a landscape plant farm filled with greenhouses owned by the Wittbold family... Read more
Fifty-Year Marina City Resident Reflects on Life in the Landmark Towers
By Dennis Rodkin
In July 1962, Dr. Theresa Southgate had the then-eccentric idea that she ought to live within walking distance of her new job at JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, headquartered at Dearborn and Grand. “It was an awful neighborhood then, [with] nowhere to live,” Southgate recalls. But there was one big apartment project under construction four blocks south of the office, so she signed a lease... Read more
Born in the Fifties, in Glencoe
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,999,000
The Property: No matter what the temperature is outside, it’s always the fifties inside this Glencoe home. Built in 1955, the house has one entire side of glass, facing the steep ravine at the edge of the lot... Read more
Cook County Puts 200 Long-Empty Homes Back to Use by Needy Families
By Dennis Rodkin
A little over a year ago, almost ten percent of the 2,100 public-housing units owned by the Housing Authority of Cook County had stood empty for two years or more. That meant the county was failing to house about 200 needy households, even though it had spaces for them. But after an aggressive round of rehab—and a shakeup of the agency—those 200 units have been put back in use... Read more
Beachy Keen in Edgewater
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.495 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: Behind the crazy glass, steel, and brick geometry of this Edgewater townhouse lies a distinctive space: a 10-room home from which residents can walk right out onto the northernmost tip of Lincoln Park and the park’s farthest-north beach Kathy Osterman Beach... Read more
Old Town in Bloom
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.7 million
The Property: Over the past ten years, this perfectly nice vintage home in Old Town has bloomed. Opened up with the addition of a second lot next door, the house, thanks to its present seller, Kemery Bloom, has come to life, inside and out... Read more