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John Van Bergen’s Wright Stuff on the South Shore
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $499,000
The Property: Built in 1916 when the surrounding neighborhood was a stylish enclave centered on the nearby South Shore Country Club, this Prairie-style house was the work of the architect John Van Bergen, whose buildings are numerous in Oak Park, River Forest, and Highland Park. This is Van Bergen’s only work in Chicago, according to Lee Bey, formerly the architecture critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and now a blogger at... Read more
New Life for Dr. King’s Lawndale Dream
By Dennis Rodkin
In Lawndale, at the site of the Chicago apartment where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  lived with his family in 1966, work has begun on the Dr. King Legacy Apartments, a $17-million complex that, when finished, will have 45 units of affordable rental housing, retail space, and a mini-museum dedicated to the efforts of King and others to provide equal access to housing in Chicago. Read more
A Mid-Priced Mid-Century Modern
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.29 million
Sale Price: $950,000
The Property: Although its street face is mostly an off-putting wall of brick, the other three sides and the interior of this Glencoe home demonstrate the mid-century modernist concept that a house should contain simple, open spaces with a nearly transparent connection to the outdoors. Read more
Palatially Homey in Glencoe
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.995 million
The Property: Situated on a lakefront cul-de-sac in Glencoe, this newly built mansion with an elaborate façade has an entry hall containing a free-standing marble staircase lined with florid wrought iron... Read more