Digging into the data from which we built the home-values charts in the April issue of Chicago, I’ve found a dozen city neighborhoods or suburbs showing signs that they’ve hit bottom and may be on the way back up... Read more
List Price: $550,000 Sale Price: $500,000
The Property: Of the five rental homes in Glencoe that Frank Lloyd Wright built for his attorney, Sherman Booth, the Charles R. Perry House is the only one with a pagoda flourish on the façade, a design element inspired by the architect’s time in Japan... Read more
Cubs great Ryne Sandberg and his wife, Margaret, put their three-bedroom Streeterville co-op on the market Wednesday, asking $650,000. The home has 2,500 square feet of space in a classic brick-and-limestone 1920s building... Read more
List Price: $5.5 million The Property: The homebuilder Joe Elias and his company, Vintage Elegant Family Estates, pride themselves on bringing an old-world timelessness to their projects. At Hidden Lakes, a gated subdivision of very large homes in South Barrington, Elias took it up several notches, layering on the European-inspired details when creating this 13,000-square-foot home for his family... Read more
For the April issue of Chicago, which hits newsstands this week, we created charts that show how home values are holding up in the city’s neighborhoods and suburbs. For the most part, they’re looking wan, at best—except for Kenilworth... Read more
List Price: $3.195 million Sale Price: $1.75 million The Property: Secluded at the end of a long wooded lane in Lake Forest, this North Shore chateau had been on the market since May 2008... Read more
List Price: $1.295 million The Property:
Late in the 1980s, as the Clybourn Corridor was making its transformation from industrial area to vibrant urban neighborhood, a long block of townhouses was built on Maud Avenue, which parallels Clybourn Avenue... Read more
In Logan Square, East Pilsen, and other Chicago neighborhoods, new residences are going up—and being swiftly bought—that go by the brand name Smart Tech Homes. But they could also be called the bungalows of the 21st century... Read more
List Price: $1.1 million Sale Price: $1.1 million The Property: Sitting low and austere on a block of frilly Victorians in Evanston, the former home of the modernist architect David Haid is easy to overlook... Read more
