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Fancy Footwork in Lake View
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.250 million
The Property: This extensively renovated Lake View house, which dates to 1887, has one foot in the past and one in the present. A four-year rehab earlier this decade opened up the floor plan to enhance the kind of casual flow preferred today while carefully maintaining the feeling of a vintage home. Read more
A Front Porch Revival in Libertyville
By Dennis Rodkin
The failure of a boom-era townhouse and condo project in the heart of Libertyville may have seemed like bad news at the time. As things turned out, it made way for another developer to step in with a new plan where the houses will be less expensive—and better suited to the neighborhood... Read more
A Spring Awakening in Hinsdale
By Dennis Rodkin
The Properties: The homes pictured here are three of the nine Hinsdale houses that sold for $1 million or more between April 15th and April 29th. That’s up from four sold last year in the same two-week period and just one house sold in that time frame in 2008. Read more
Perfectly Powhatan
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $499,000
The Property: When she was appointed by President Obama to an ambassadorial post in Rome last year, Ertharin Cousin was reluctant to let go of her Chicago home, a three-bedroom condo she had painstakingly updated in the Powhatan, the Art Deco treasure at 49th Street and South Lake Shore Drive. Read more
The Year of Living Strategically
By Dennis Rodkin
The lives of young adults can change multiple times in the course of several years. They get married, have children, send the kids off to school. When home values were rising fast, young people could afford to think short-term and buy a place that suited their immediate needs. For most, a rising market would make moving on to the next property a profitable step—or at least not a financially ruinous one. Read more
Fred Latsko Sells His Unfinished Gold Coast Rehab
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.75 million
Sale Price: $5.25 million
The Property: On April 15th, the developer and socialite Fred Latsko sold this Gold Coast chateau with its extensive rehab still unfinished. Mary Bennett, the sales agent for Latsko and his wife, Julie, says that her clients planned to live in the house, “but it didn’t work out that way.” She says that the buyer—identified in public documents as... Read more
The Brightest of Seven "Sisters" on North Center's Riverfront
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.390 million
The Property: In 2004, a builder put up seven new cedar-sided houses and a mini-riverwalk on the former site of a boat storage yard on the North Branch of the Chicago River a few blocks north of Irving Park Road. Each of the homes has views of the water and of Horner Park. Read more