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Sale of the Week: A Gold Coast Look in River North
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.35 million
Sale Price: $3.55 million
The Property: It may look like the successor to some of the great old Gold Coast mansions, but this slender four-story Georgian sits in a much newer neighborhood: the Kinzie Estates section of River North, which until ten years ago was a couple of blocks of defunct warehouses and surface parking lots south of what used to be... Read more
Sale of the Week: Second Foreclosure on Same Northbrook Block
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $829,000
Sale Price: $752,000
The Property: In September 2006, this 14-room house on a corner lot in Northbrook was sold for $1.9 million. Five months later a lender recorded a lis pendens—a notice that a foreclosure suit would be filed against those buyers. That began a long process that included further actions by the lenders, the eviction of the residents... Read more
Sale of the Week: A Winnetka Builder Weathers the Storm
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,595,000
Sale Price: $1,485,000
The Property: Never mind the house pictured here. It’s gone, demolished on March 5th, two days after the Winnetka-based Heritage Luxury Builders closed on its purchase of the site. The lot is first-rate: just under half an acre in east Winnetka, surrounded by impressive homes—both old and new—and with lakefront parks one and three blocks away... Read more
Sale of the Week: Blending Old and New in Old Town
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.975 million
Sale Price: $2.81 million
The Property: Although this 5,700-square-foot home was built in Chicago’s Old Town in 2005, its brick and limestone construction, its slender, arched windows, and its flat façade make it appear much older. But if the attached two-car garage doesn’t give away its true age, a look inside at the elevator... Read more
Sale of the Week: Lordly Georgian in Inverness
By Dennis Rodkin
Sale Price: $1.65 million
The Property: This commanding 16-room Georgian mansion looks down from its hilltop site through a broad allée of 26 tall silver maple trees. The home was built in 1972 at the center of the McIntosh section of the village of Inverness from a design by Adolph Nilsson, whose company, Period Homes, built several impressive houses in this and... Read more
Sale of the Week: Field Mansion Finally Fills Up
By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1,350,000
Sale Price: $1,175,000
The Property: One week ago, unidentified buyers closed on the sixth and final condo in the gigantic old Marshall Field Jr. mansion at 1919 South Prairie Avenue in Chicago’s South Loop. An eight-room unit with some 4,100 square feet of living space, the condo fills the rear half of the first floor—which includes the mansion’s original dining room and an entrance rotunda that served the rear portion of the...

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Sale of the Week: Pool with a House Attached – Northbrook
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.095 million
Sale Price: $1.6 million
The Property: Set on 1.6 wooded acres overlooking a private pond in Northbrook, this four-bedroom ranch house has a long, glassy second wing that contains a swimming pool. But it’s not just an indoor pool: the many windows and doors of the 1,800-square-foot...

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Sale of the Week: NBC’s Wojciechowski Moves to Lake Shore Drive
By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: not available
Sale Price: $954,000
The Property: Charlie Wojciechowski, an anchor and reporter at NBC5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV), and his wife, Kate, a real-estate manager, have purchased a two-bedroom home on the 33rd floor of a new condo tower on Lake Shore Drive. The building is one of a pair of contemporary structures at 600 North Lake Shore Drive; in addition to the Drive, the buildings overlook...

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Sale of the Week: Twin Peaks – Chicago
By Dennis Rodkin

List Price (41st floor): $2.25 million
Sale Price: $2.1 million
List Price (37th floor): $2.45 million
Sale Price: $2.125 million
The Properties: Last week, two condominiums at the Water Tower Residences (at 180 East Pearson Street in Chicago) were sold within two days of one another; the two condos were quite similar in size and sale price—and in the views they...

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Sale of the Week: Wax In, Wax Out at Chicago’s Olympia Centre
By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1,299,000
Sale Price: $1,075,000
The Property: H. Fisk Johnson, the fifth-generation CEO of S. C. Johnson—the Racine, Wisconsin, consumer-products company behind Raid!, Pledge, Glade, and other brands—has sold his condo on the 51st floor of Olympia Centre (that’s the tapered red tower, at Chicago and Michigan avenues, with Neiman Marcus at its base). Johnson has had a home in the building for 20 years. The seven-room condo has two...

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