List Price: $3.9 million
Sale Price: $3.25 million
The Property: A lavishly finished condo on the 47th floor of the Park Tower that was used only as an in-town residence by a family from the North Shore has been sold . . . to another North Shore family for use as their in-town residence, according to the selling agent, Chezi Rafaeli... Read more
List Price: $3.2 million
Sale Price: $2.25 million
The Property: First listed in 2007 for $6.5 million, this once-grand mansion on five acres in central Lake Forest sold on September 7 for $2.25 million—just 34 percent of the original asking price. Built in 1914, its architect was Arthur Heun, who designed many of the premier mansions in Chicago and Lake Forest... Read more
List Price: $5.75 million
Sale Price: $5.78 million
List Price: $4.75 million
Sale Price: $4.154 million
The Properties: A 13-room mansion on an extra-large lot on North State Parkway sold August 23 for a little more than its asking price—and for nearly eight times what its sellers had paid for the place in 1994... Read more
List Price: $999,000
Sale Price: $934,800
The Property: Lisa Erspamer, the longtime producer at Harpo Productions who is now chief creative officer at the Los Angeles–based Oprah Winfrey Network, has sold her two-bedroom Gold Coast condo for $934,800—or 23 percent less than what she originally paid for it... Read more
So far in August, three homes have sold for precisely $1 million, and they all went on the market—for the first time, at least—in the spring of 2009. Here’s a closer look... Read more
List Price: $2.999 million 
Sale Price: $3.1 million 
The Property: This 11,000-square-foot house in Oak Brook’s Midwest Club nearly sold for about $4.2 million in 2008, but the deal fell apart, says the sellers’ agent, Jaime Adams... Read more
List Price: $2.25 million
Sale Price: $1.95 million
The Property: Robert Parrillo, a Chicago lawyer who was part of the investor team that in 2009 rescued the Chicago Sun-Times from bankruptcy, has sold a four-bedroom condo at the Park Newberry and is moving to the highest residential floor of the luxe Elysian... Read more
List Price: $890,000
Sale Price: $840,000
The Property: This substantial Victorian, built in 1906 for a man whose family construction business developed large swaths of homes in Oak Park and the Far West Side of Chicago, sold in just 15 days this May... Read more