Events Newsletters Subscribe

Tag: On the Market
A Pre-Fire Farmhouse in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,574,900
The Property: Just off the thriving Armitage Avenue shopping strip, on a Lincoln Park street filled with homes from different eras, stands a house that watched them all arrive. Built in 1861 as the farmhouse for a truck farm that delivered its produce into Chicago, the house still has several of its original elements... Read more
The Queen of Terra Cotta Row
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.495 million
The Property: During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company made Chicago the capital of architectural ornamentation. The company’s officers weren’t shy about using their products on their homes on Terra Cotta Row, a cluster of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake View... Read more
A Passage to India—via Lake Forest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $6.495 million
The Property: On a bitterly cold day, a welcoming home can transport visitors to a better place. At this Lake Forest estate, that place is an idealized version of India in the 1890s. The home’s entire central hallway, about 25 feet long, is papered with a Zuber wallpaper panorama called Hindustan that was installed when the home was owned by the family of William A. P. Pullman, from 1926 to 1992... Read more
Thoroughly Modern Living in Lake View
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.59 million (under contract)
The Property: City homebuilder Bart Przyjemski has been doing so well with his contemporary-styled homes that he had this one in Lake View under contract before we could get there to shoot video. But it serves as the model for his next few homes—and quite a model it is, with its bold glass and panelized exterior... Read more
Sarah Susanka’s Not So Big House in Libertyville
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $810,000
The Property: A traditonal-looking neighborhood is springing up next door to Libertyville’s charming downtown. SchoolStreet, a New Urbanist development on the site of a failed townhouse project, has been selling well, and its promised front porches are becoming more numerous... Read more
A Mies van der Wow Renovation
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $779,000
The Property: Sixty years ago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe changed the way Chicagoans—and people around the world—lived with his paired apartment towers at 860-880 Lake Shore Drive. Although they came after his Promontory Apartments in Hyde Park, their steel-and-glass muscularity made them the icons... Read more
A Woodsy Retreat in Barrington Hills
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.68 million
The Property: Tom Ciaglia is a veteran builder in Barrington Hills, and for the most part, he says, buildable lots in that northwest suburb have either rolling hills or dense woods. But several years ago, Ciaglia, whose company is Homes by Pinnacle, purchased a parcel that had both... Read more
Playboy Mansion Condo Features Original 1899 Ballroom
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.8 million
The Property: When this Gold Coast mansion belonged to the surgeon George Isham and his wife, Katherine, its palatial ballroom hosted Theodore Roosevelt and Admiral Robert Peary. But past presidents and polar explorers fade in comparison to the home’s most notorious denizen, Hugh Hefner, who lived and played in the house between 1959 and 1974... Read more
Water Tower Place Condo Belonged to Former Hollywood Starlet
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.75 million
The Property: Outside the windows of this 46th-floor condo at Water Tower Place lie two of Chicago’s great beauties: its architecture and its shoreline. They are a good complement to the beauty that resides inside the condo—as well as to the Hollywood beauty that was its most recent resident... Read more