Klaus Fritsch, who, with Arnie Morton, launched Morton’s The Steakhouse in 1978, has sold the 13-room house he built in 1998.
“My house was for parties,” Fritsch says..." /> Klaus Fritsch, who, with Arnie Morton, launched Morton’s The Steakhouse in 1978, has sold the 13-room house he built in 1998.
“My house was for parties,” Fritsch says..." /> Klaus Fritsch, who, with Arnie Morton, launched Morton’s The Steakhouse in 1978, has sold the 13-room house he built in 1998.
“My house was for parties,” Fritsch says..." />
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Going Door to Door in Lake View
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: When they set out to build a new home on a corner lot in Lake View eight years ago, the interior designer Tracy Hickman and Chad Munger moved the front door off Barry Avenue and around the corner onto Wolcott Avenue... Read more
Positive Signs for Some Relocated CHA Residents
By Dennis Rodkin
When the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) started moving residents out of two South Side developments nine years ago, Susan Popkin, a public-housing expert at the Urban Institute, worried that it wouldn’t turn out well for the folks who got relocated. “I had a lot of concerns that these people would not manage,” she says, “that it was really going to [harm] them." But last week, Popkin and some colleagues... Read more
What $1 Million Buys Now—Suburban Edition
By Dennis Rodkin
The Properties: Three suburban houses have each sold for exactly $1 million in the month since I reported what $1 million buys in the city. Let’s take a look at what suburban homebuyers are getting for that benchmark price right now... Read more
An Alpine Home in Wheaton
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.69 million The Property: The rustic style of the exterior and main interior rooms of this Wheaton home are a tribute to the Vermont skiing club where Ed Morgan, who built the house with his wife, Sally, skied back in the 1950s... Read more