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Afloat Over Lake View in a Milton Schwartz Penthouse
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $669,000
The Property: Milton Schwartz was a modernist Chicago architect best known for later buildings like the Hotel 71 (formerly the Executive House) on Wacker Drive and the now-demolished Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas... Read more
Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, Facing Foreclosure, Sells Short
By Dennis Rodkin
Two years after she listed her Hyde Park home for sale with an optimistic asking price, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun has sold it as a short sale, for less than she owed on the mortgage. A lender had started the foreclosure process on the property in mid-September... Read more
Kenwood’s Double Shot of Frank Lloyd Wright
By Dennis Rodkin
Last week, two neighboring homes in Kenwood both came on the market on the same day at the same price, $1.48 million. Although they hardly resemble one another, they have a lot in common. Both were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at an early but pivotal point in his career... Read more
Fisher Condo Finally Reels in a Buyer
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,095,000
Sale Price: $1,159,000
The Property: The largest and most lavishly ornamented condo in the landmark art moderne Fisher Studio Houses sold October 9 after more than three and a half years on the market... Read more
Keck & Keck in Flossmoor
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $425,000
The Property: Chicagoans first saw the architecture of the Keck brothers at the Century of Progress Exposition, the world’s fair held here along Lake Michigan in 1933... Read more
A Baby Boomlet in Bridgeport
By Dennis Rodkin
In another sign of the renaissance of family living in the city, a townhouse development in urban Bridgeport is witnessing a baby boom of the sort that’s usually associated with suburban neighborhoods... Read more
Rekindling a Post-Fire Row House in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.599 million
The Property: In the years just after the Great Chicago Fire—whose 141st anniversary is Monday—the prolific architect Edward Burling put up numerous buildings in the city, including, in 1875, a string of ten row houses on the Lincoln Park street that now bears his name... Read more