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A Lake View Penthouse That’s Really a Penthouse
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $895,000
The Property: It’s common in new buildings to have several floors of penthouses. But in a 1926 co-op on Lake Shore Drive in Lake View, there’s just one penthouse floor, the 17th, which can be reached only from the 16th floor by a private staircase... Read more
A New Mexico Adobe in Western Lake Forest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.395 million
The Property: In the early 1980s, John and Sarabess Cahill fell in love with New Mexico—only John’s business was in Evanston. What to do? “We brought New Mexico here,” Sarabess says... Read more
In Lincoln Park, Something Suburban This Way Comes
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.85 million
The Property: Although it’s now jammed with strollers and baby boutiques, west Lincoln Park wasn’t nearly as family-friendly 20 years ago, when Jonathan Peabody and Lindsey Stewart decided they didn’t want to move to the suburbs to raise their kids... Read more
In Lincoln Park, Yesterday Meets Today
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.5 million
The Property: In Lincoln Park, where residences from yesterday and today freely mingle, today’s property is clearly new. But it doesn’t shriek 2012. Instead, its looks as if it might date to an earlier era... Read more
In Sheridan Park, Prairie Style Meets Arts and Crafts
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $799,000
The Property: There’s a pretty street view framed by the long rectangular porch of this Prairie-style house built in 1908 in the Sheridan Park section of Uptown. Inside the living room, there is another framed landscape view: a mural of woods and a mountain meadow that’s set into the mahogany beams above the brick mantel... Read more
Crate & Barrel’s Carole Segal Flips a Winnetka Mansion—Literally
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $6.499 million
The Property: Most people who talk about flipping a house don’t mean it quite as literally as Carole Segal does. At a Winnetka mansion she set out to restore and resell, Segal, who launched Crate & Barrel nearly 50 years ago with her husband, Gordon, flipped the front and back of the house... Read more
In Bucktown, A Room with a View of a Room with a View
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.499 million
The Property: The view from the rooftop deck of this house takes in much of what makes Bucktown so great: a mix of vintage and contemporary homes, landmark buildings, church spires, and a blanket of trees. What’s more, the vista includes the lakefront and downtown skylines—and there’s also another interesting perspective inside... Read more
Tiptoe Through the Tulips in River Forest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.195 million
The Property: The tulips bloomed and faded a little early this year, but at one house in River Forest, they’re in perpetual bloom. The home is the design of Robert Spencer, a Prairie-style architect whose handprints are on one of the city’s prettiest public spaces: the south lobby of the Cultural Center, which is filled with glittering tile mosaics... Read more
A Typical Chicago Backyard—on the 28th Floor
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.35 million
The Property: If you’re addicted to Chicago panoramas, I’ve found your drug. Views of Lake Michigan, the Chicago River, and the Ogden Slip surround the terrace of today’s property. You also look out on a swath of the skyline, and all from a back lawn that, although it’s on a 28th-floor terrace, is as big as many in the city—and even some in the suburbs... Read more
The South Loop by the Light of Day
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $839,000
The Property: It’s no surprise to find lots of daylight surrounding you on the rooftop deck of today’s property, a three-bedroom condo in an old South Loop building tucked into a historical block. The surprise is inside, which during the day is nearly as bright as the outdoors, thanks to the clerestories, seven skylights, and a wall of tall windows... Read more