List Price: $2.499 million The Project: By far the largest home in the St. Ben’s neighborhood, this newly completed mansion fills the shell of a former six-flat apartment building. The builder Bill Varney took advantage of the wide, shallow structure to create a home whose expansive southern façade lets virtually every room bask in sunlight... Read more
This spring, for the first time in more than 40 years, people will be living at the same North Lawndale address as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his family did in 1966, when he came here to dramatize the desperate state of housing in Chicago’s minority neighborhoods... Read more
Dustin Byfuglien, a key player on the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup–winning squad who now skates for the Atlanta Thrashers, on Monday closed on the sale of his former Roscoe Village home. The sale price was $1.08 million—14 percent less than the $1.265 million Byfuglien paid for the newly built 12-room house in December 2008... Read more
List Price: $829,000 Sale Price: Not available The Property: Roger Keats, the Republican candidate who lost last fall’s election for president of the Cook County Board, has pronounced himself sick of corruption in Illinois and sold his Wilmette home to move to Texas... Read more
When voting April 5th on local tax referendums, voters in ten Cook County communities may get the impression that any increase on their property-tax bills will be only about a third of the actual increase... Read more
List Price: $1.699 million Sale Price: $1.606 million The Property: In 1891, just three years after founding the company that would grow into the pharmaceutical giant Abbott Labs, Wallace Abbott built this 15-room house in what was then the Chicago suburb Ravenwsood... Read more
