Dennis Rodkin
By Dennis Rodkin
Different owners come up short on sale of Prairie Avenue row house Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
GOING FOR BAROQUE: 22 rooms, 44 percent off its original asking price Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
In 1948, Kenneth Laurent, a young man from Rockford who had lost the use of both his legs during his World War II service, wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright to ask if the architect would design a home for him and his bride, Phyllis. The couple had $15,000 to spend from federal and state grants for paralyzed veterans. By 1952, when their new home was completed, they had spent about $31,000 to build the two-bedroom house... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.295 million
Sale Price: $2.1 million
The Property: Overlooking Lake Michigan from atop a wooded bluff, this Lake Forest home combines architectural elements from the late-19th and mid-20th centuries... Read more
Sale Price: $2.1 million
The Property: Overlooking Lake Michigan from atop a wooded bluff, this Lake Forest home combines architectural elements from the late-19th and mid-20th centuries... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.495 million
The Property: Although it’s only 14 years old, this Lake Bluff house on one and a half acres has many of the hallmarks of the Arts and Crafts movement from a century earlier... Read more
The Property: Although it’s only 14 years old, this Lake Bluff house on one and a half acres has many of the hallmarks of the Arts and Crafts movement from a century earlier... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Jennifer Hudson, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer and actress who got her start on American Idol, has a contract pending on a 12,000-square-foot home in Burr Ridge that was for sale at $2.795 million... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
A century-old butter factory-turned-plumbing warehouse, converted into a single-family home with a spacious deck and lawn in 2005, sells for $915,000 in a sub-neighborhood of Edgewater. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $535,000
The Property: Would you like a slice of pie? How about three? This Marina City condo combines three of the buildings’ famously pie-shape studio apartments into a single two-bedroom, two-bath home. And it comes with a delicious topping: three of the distinctive semi-circular balconies, which together provide a crescent of views of the downtown skyline, as well as the Chicago River and its historic bridges... Read more
The Property: Would you like a slice of pie? How about three? This Marina City condo combines three of the buildings’ famously pie-shape studio apartments into a single two-bedroom, two-bath home. And it comes with a delicious topping: three of the distinctive semi-circular balconies, which together provide a crescent of views of the downtown skyline, as well as the Chicago River and its historic bridges... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
An Illinois program that has a solid track record of preventing families from becoming homeless due to temporary crises in their finances is about to run out of money. The Illinois Homeless Prevention Program provides small grants to families that help them weather short-term financial problems that threaten to force them out of their homes. In 2010, the average grant was $916—which shows just how thin the line is between being housed and being homeless for many Illinois families... Read more