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By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.3 million
Sale Price: $4.75 million
The Property: This 16-room house with about 135 feet of Lake Michigan beach was sold in April for the highest price paid in Wilmette in nearly two years. Built in 1968 by Hemphill, a company that built thousands of high-end North Shore homes over several decades, this residence was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s, after the then-owner, William De Nicolo, demolished the house next door... Read more
Sale Price: $4.75 million
The Property: This 16-room house with about 135 feet of Lake Michigan beach was sold in April for the highest price paid in Wilmette in nearly two years. Built in 1968 by Hemphill, a company that built thousands of high-end North Shore homes over several decades, this residence was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s, after the then-owner, William De Nicolo, demolished the house next door... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
With the real-estate market in turmoil and the economic future uncertain, our in-house housing (and schools) expert names a score of top places to live right now. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $899,000
The Property: This 2,400-square-foot home is one of six condominiums in an ornate 1878 building that originally housed Grant’s Seminary for Young Ladies. It was built by the same bequest that built the Newberry Library a block north... Read more
The Property: This 2,400-square-foot home is one of six condominiums in an ornate 1878 building that originally housed Grant’s Seminary for Young Ladies. It was built by the same bequest that built the Newberry Library a block north... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
On their usual circuit through the neighborhood, Kristen and Victor Ramirez and their two small children have a lot to do. They need to get their feet wet in the swimming pool at Hamlin Park; stop to see the penguin statue outside Suckers Candy; drop in at Glam to Go and a couple of other Roscoe Street boutiques; and finish with some sugar cookies from the old-timey Rudy’s Bakery. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
On the far northwest side of the city are the streets that make you say, “Oh.” Olcott, Oleander, Oliphant, Olympia, and others among the “O” avenues off Northwest Highway offer a winsome assortment of homes in American four-square, colonial, and bungalow styles. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
History offers its ironic twists. The Lakewood Balmoral neighborhood was originally developed as a modest alternative to the lakefront mansions half a mile to the east. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Bicyclists traveling the 21-mile Old Plank Road Trail through northern Will County know they can expect a warm welcome at a tavern in downtown Frankfort that’s named for the trail. This onetime post office with a broad front porch stands among the vintage storefronts and houses along Kansas Street, a snapshot of a pioneer town’s center. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
In the country’s collective imagination, the ideal small town has a square for a heart. In Woodstock that heart is big enough to accommodate everything from the Supperclub at the Elks and a quilting store to a crêperie and a shop stocked with tie-dyed clothes. After all, a town called Woodstock needs an emporium for psychedelic garb. Read more