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The Shop Around the Corner—Now a Lake View Condo
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $950,000
The Property: East Lake View is now so full of restaurants and homes that it’s hard to imagine that, just a century ago, a swath of it around Halsted and Aldine Streets was a landscape plant farm filled with greenhouses owned by the Wittbold family... Read more
Born in the Fifties, in Glencoe
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,999,000
The Property: No matter what the temperature is outside, it’s always the fifties inside this Glencoe home. Built in 1955, the house has one entire side of glass, facing the steep ravine at the edge of the lot... Read more
Old Town in Bloom
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.7 million
The Property: Over the past ten years, this perfectly nice vintage home in Old Town has bloomed. Opened up with the addition of a second lot next door, the house, thanks to its present seller, Kemery Bloom, has come to life, inside and out... Read more
Afloat Over Lake View in a Milton Schwartz Penthouse
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $669,000
The Property: Milton Schwartz was a modernist Chicago architect best known for later buildings like the Hotel 71 (formerly the Executive House) on Wacker Drive and the now-demolished Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas... Read more
Keck & Keck in Flossmoor
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $425,000
The Property: Chicagoans first saw the architecture of the Keck brothers at the Century of Progress Exposition, the world’s fair held here along Lake Michigan in 1933... Read more
Rekindling a Post-Fire Row House in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.599 million
The Property: In the years just after the Great Chicago Fire—whose 141st anniversary is Monday—the prolific architect Edward Burling put up numerous buildings in the city, including, in 1875, a string of ten row houses on the Lincoln Park street that now bears his name... Read more
All the Marbles, in River North
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $975,000
The Property: One section of River North could be called the town that Montgomery Ward built. Over several decades, the now-defunct retailer built... Read more