Tag: On the Market

List Price: $2.9 million
The Property: It’s a safe bet that when tourists on buses ogle the mansion at 1340 North State Parkway, they are more interested in the mansion’s swinging years as the Playboy Mansion rather than in the sumptuous Beaux Arts details of the century-old façade designed by James Gamble Rogers or the secluded formal garden on the building’s south end... Read more

List Price: $950,000
The Property: When it was 99 years old, this Wilmette home grew from a modest two-bedroom cottage into a four-bedroom Victorian with fanciful Carpenter Gothic trim. Built in 1893 in what is now a highly desirable eastern Read more

Michael Flowers, who styled Michelle Obama’s hair from the time she was 18 up to and including the day of her husband’s inauguration, is putting his salon, Van Cleef Hair Studio, up for sale. Flowers and his partner, Daryl Wells, who also runs the studio (at 56 West Huron Street), want to retire to Costa Rica, where they own land, Wells says. Read more

List Price: $1.89 million
The Property: Transforming an old Bucktown hardware store into this single-family home was a complex project, but it had at least one thing going for it. Because the existing building filled its site all the way to the lot lines, the home could be deeper and wider than new construction... Read more