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List Price: $1,450,000
Sale Price: $1,011,500
The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
List Price: $1,450,000
Sale Price: $1,011,500
The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
List Price: $1,450,000
Sale Price: $1,011,500
The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
List Price: $1,450,000
Sale Price: $1,011,500
The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
List Price: $1,995,000
Sale Price: $1,595,000
The Property: The rear of this 12-room house looks across a swimming pool and enormous back lawn toward a small lake (part of Ginger Creek) and, beyond that, to homes on the other side of the water. Approximately 35 years old, this house has a soaring peaked ceiling in the main living rooms, four bedrooms, and a...
List Price: $1,299,000
Sale Price: $820,000
The Property: The builder who replaced an older home with this house did not complete it before his lender ended up selling it in November—for less than the builder had paid to buy the lot in 2005. The new owners are not only completing construction, but they are re-doing some of what...
List Price: $6.255 million
Sale Price: $5.55 million
The Property: Set apart from its Lake Forest neighbors by a private wooden bridge, this 19-room mansion sits on two and a half acres alongside a sylvan ravine. The house sold in November after its owners, Joseph and Sarah Tripodi, dropped their asking price by ten percent as part of Coldwell Banker’s nationwide sales-stimulus...
List Price: $1.499 million
Sale Price: $1.3 million
The Property: This three-bedroom condo is on two upper floors of Erie on the Park, an ultramodern steel and glass structure at 510 West Erie Street. The 24-story building is one of two condo high-rises (along with Kingsbury on the Park) designed by the...
List Price: $3.395 million
Sale Price: $2.2 million
The Property: Its multiply-divided windows, steeply pitched roofs, and English-countryside casualness evoke many of the decades-old mansions in eastern Kenilworth, but in fact this house is just eight years old and on the younger (west) side of town. The 12-room brick and...
List Price: $2.395 million
Sale Price: $2.2 million
The Property: Although just four years old, this 13-room house in west Lincoln Park got a $50,000 makeover before going on the market in September. What’s more, the residence was priced $75,000 below what its sellers had originally paid for the...
List Price: $5.75 million
Sale Price: $3.3 million
The Property: At the center of this 22-acre estate in the horse country of Barrington Hills stands an 80-year-old manor house built of stone. The Cotswold-styled house has 20 rooms (seven of them bedrooms), nine full and four partial bathrooms, and six fireplaces. On the...
List Price: $3,900,000
Sale Price: $3,575,000
The Property: This mammoth, lavishly detailed Tudor mansion, completed in 1932 in a section of Hinsdale known as the Woodlands, was sold in late September to only its fourth owner—who plans to demolish it and build a new home on the 2.2-acre lot. The Chicago architecture firm Armstrong, Furst and Tilton designed the 14-room house, which was built for the family that...
List Price: $1,395,000
Sale Price: $1,327,500
The Property: On a street of mostly traditional-looking homes in Wilmette, this residence fits right in with its red brick exterior trimmed in white. But the house is a departure for its neighborhood—and for almost any other community in the Chicago area—because it has...
