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From Farmhouse to Refurbished Mansion in Glencoe
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $7.5 million
The Property: Poised atop the lakeside bluff in Glencoe, this 18-room mansion has lots of rich, carefully restored period detail mingled with well-handled modernizations. A disused dumbwaiter shaft, for example, now holds the thicket of cables... Read more
An Uptown Gem, Restored and For Rent
By Dennis Rodkin
Ninety years after it opened as one Chicago’s most lavish apartment hotels, the Sheridan Plaza, at Sheridan Road and Wilson Avenue, is getting back its Jazz Age luster... Read more
Mrs. McCormick’s Lake Forest Teahouse
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.5 million
Sale Price: $1.05 million
The Property: Nestled into the trees at the edge of a ravine in east Lake Forest, this tile-roofed teahouse is a remnant of Walden, the 80-acre lakefront estate of Cyrus H. McCormick II. Built in the 1920s, it was converted to a house in the 1950s... Read more
A Stone Manor in Lake Forest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.25 million
The Property: Bret and Ursula Boyd drew on their European travels and Ursula’s Slovenian heritage when they built this 19-room house for themselves in Lake Forest in 2003... Read more
Before and After in the South Suburbs
By Dennis Rodkin
Jim McClelland, the CEO of the Tinley Park–based Mack Industries, is helping some hard-hit south suburbs recover from the foreclosure crisis by creating some well-equipped and well-managed rental housing for residents of those towns. A longtime builder, McClelland began the project about five years ago... Read more
Coach DiNardo Executes a Switch Play
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.5 million
Sale Price: $1.25 million
The Property: Two years ago, this 13-room house in Western Springs seemed like a good fit for the former college football coach Gerry DiNardo, who was moving with his family from southern Indiana to Chicago... Read more
Condo Embraces Playboy Mansion's Garden
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.9 million
The Property: It’s a safe bet that when tourists on buses ogle the mansion at 1340 North State Parkway, they are more interested in the mansion’s swinging years as the Playboy Mansion rather than in the sumptuous Beaux Arts details of the century-old façade designed by James Gamble Rogers or the secluded formal garden on the building’s south end... Read more
Open House at Lake Forest Home Owned by Vince Vaughn’s Mother
By Dennis Rodkin
An open house is scheduled for Sunday, June 27th, at the Lake Forest home of Sharon Vaughn, the mother of the movie star Vince Vaughn. Priced at $2.395 million, the five-bedroom, six-bathroom house has about 6,000 square feet of living space and stands on a two-acre site that overlooks the Lake Forest Open Lands Association’s Mellody Farm Nature Preserve... Read more
Wilmette Home of Arrested Trader Sells
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,269,000
Sale Price: $1,275,000
The Property: A Wilmette home that the commodities trader Jay Nolan forfeited to the U.S. government last December has been sold. Read more