Marc Ewing and his wife, Lisa Lee, last week sold their 26-room Sheridan Road mansion in Glencoe for just three-quarters of the price that they had paid for the gated estate nine years earlier." /> Marc Ewing and his wife, Lisa Lee, last week sold their 26-room Sheridan Road mansion in Glencoe for just three-quarters of the price that they had paid for the gated estate nine years earlier." /> Marc Ewing and his wife, Lisa Lee, last week sold their 26-room Sheridan Road mansion in Glencoe for just three-quarters of the price that they had paid for the gated estate nine years earlier." />
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Tag: Sale of the Week
A (Pabst) Blue-Ribbon Sale — Glencoe
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $7.95 million
Sale Price: $5.2 million
The Property: The software entrepreneur Marc Ewing and his wife, Lisa Lee, last week sold their 26-room Sheridan Road mansion in Glencoe for just three-quarters of the price that they had paid for the gated estate nine years earlier. Read more
Foreclosed, Fixed, and Sold — Roscoe Village
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $919,000
Sale Price: $916,000
The Property: At a time when Chicago appears to have the nation’s biggest logjam of unsold homes—enough to supply 19 months worth of sales, according to a recent Wall Street Journal survey of 28 major metro areas—a savvy investor has done his part to advance the... Read more
Jim McMahon Sells His Northbrook Home
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: N/A
Sale Price: $2.85 million
The Property: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McMahon Jim McMahon, the quarterback who led the Chicago Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX, has quietly sold his Northbrook home of more than 20 years to a neighbor. McMahon and his wife, Nancy, raised their four kids in the house; the youngest, Zach, was a senior at Glenbrook North High School last year. Read more
Troubled House Back On the Market — Hinsdale
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.699 million
Sale Price: $1.400 million
The Property: This 27-room house, once priced by its builder at about $4.5 million but sold unfinished and with various contractors’ liens against it, was bought on October 2nd by an investor—who put it right back on the market, priced at... Read more
Tony Winner Dunagan Buys in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $999,000
Sale Price: $912,500
The Property: Deanna Dunagan, who won a best actress Tony Award for her performance as a matriarch addicted to painkillers in August: Osage County, has bought a vintage condo overlooking Lincoln Park... Read more
Twitter’s New COO Sells in Wilmette
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,449,000
Sale Price: $1,400,000
The Property: Two weeks before he was named chief operating officer of the San Francisco-based microblogging service Twitter, Dick Costolo sold his 12-room home in central Wilmette... Read more
Ex-Cub Mark Prior Sells His Lincoln Park Townhouse
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $695,000
Sale Price: $676,000
The Property: The pitcher Mark Prior has sold the Lincoln Park townhouse that he bought in 2002 several months after arriving in Chicago to great expectations. Prior left the Cubs in December 2007, but he didn’t put the four-bedroom townhouse on the market until... Read more