Events Newsletters Subscribe

Dennis Rodkin
Buyers Feel Kinship to Hemingway Home
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $525,000
Sale Price: $525,000
The Property: Kurt and Mary Jane Neumann, who will move into Ernest Hemingway’s childhood home this week, feel ties not only to the famed novelist but also to the layout of the house where he grew up... Read more
A New Mexico Adobe in Western Lake Forest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.395 million
The Property: In the early 1980s, John and Sarabess Cahill fell in love with New Mexico—only John’s business was in Evanston. What to do? “We brought New Mexico here,” Sarabess says... Read more
Summer Homes Harbor Hope for Change
By Dennis Rodkin
As the warmth and ease of this sunny season kick in, many people dream of owning a summer home. In Benton Harbor, Michigan, an ambitious residential development around a golf course, also comes freighted with dreams of healing entrenched poverty and racial division and of restoring spoiled industrial land... Read more
In Lincoln Park, Something Suburban This Way Comes
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.85 million
The Property: Although it’s now jammed with strollers and baby boutiques, west Lincoln Park wasn’t nearly as family-friendly 20 years ago, when Jonathan Peabody and Lindsey Stewart decided they didn’t want to move to the suburbs to raise their kids... Read more
Trump Tower’s “Ridiculist” $32 Million Condo
By Dennis Rodkin
A 14,000-square-foot penthouse atop the Trump International Hotel and Tower snagged lots of media coverage last week for being the loftiest home in the western hemisphere and, at $32 million, Chicago’s highest-priced home. But will it sell for that much?... Read more
At Lake Forest House Sale, Less Is Less
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.45 million
Sale Price: $1.15 million
The Property: This Lake Forest house, a dark glass pavilion done in the “less is more” style of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, sold in July 2007 for $3.8 million... Read more
In Lincoln Park, Yesterday Meets Today
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.5 million
The Property: In Lincoln Park, where residences from yesterday and today freely mingle, today’s property is clearly new. But it doesn’t shriek 2012. Instead, its looks as if it might date to an earlier era... Read more