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Former Tribune CEO Randy Michaels Sells at a Loss
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $889,000
Sale Price: $810,000
The Property: On Friday, the former Tribune CEO Randy Michaels sold his top-floor condo at 240 East Illinois. Michaels initially listed the 1,637-square-foot condo for sale in January, asking $989,000... Read more
The Fourth Cut Brings Forth Bidders in Southport Corridor
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.599 million
Sale Price: $1.599 million
The Property: When it hit the market in June, this home in the Southport Corridor was sure to get noticed, with its façade of many materials, its six outdoor terraces, and its style-setting interior finishes... Read more
A Lincoln Park House of Unknown Origin
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4 million
The Property: Although it’s one of the biggest and most eye-catching homes on a Lincoln Park street lined with landmarks, there is very little known about the origins of today’s house. That’s surprising, because someone in the early 1890s did a fine job of creating a distinctive home with a broad façade of rough-hewn stone capped by a turret and a mansard roof... Read more
Going Green Made Easier
By Dennis Rodkin
In 2008, Laura Reedy Stukel set out to do an environmentally sensitive rehab of her Elmhurst home. “I spent two hours a night for months researching windows and whatever,” she recalls. “It was impossibly complicated...” Read more
Another House Sale Related to Blagojevich Scandal
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.87 million
Sale Price: $1.55 million
The Property: This 103-year-old Tudor-style home in Glencoe was sold last week by P. Nicholas Hurtgen, a former investment banker involved in the influence-peddling scandal surrounding former governor Rod Blagojevich... Read more
Looking Good, Inside and Out, at the Fordham
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: There’s a tasteful three-bedroom condo for sale on the 42nd floor of the Fordham, the 50-story condo tower at 25 East Superior Street, but some of its appeal comes from what lies outside its walls—as well as what doesn’t... Read more