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List Price: $3.275 million
The Property: An old triangular brick warehouse, last used as a distributorship for Polish folklore items, has became a stylish home in the hands of the developers Bob and Karen Ranquist. The mix of original wood beams and brick with new wooden stairs, steel beams in the kitchen addition, and funky custom light fixtures by Toronto’s Castor design gives the home a warm, hand-honed feeling...
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About a mile south of the O’Hare Oasis on the Tri-State Tollway, a billboard trumpets, “King Wanted.” It’s part of Paul Iwanski’s marketing campaign to sell the 18,000-square-foot castle he is building on a one-acre lot in Oak Brook...
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List Price: $348,480
Sale Price: NA
The Property: Impressive on the outside, this 13-room Park Ridge home might originally have been quite nice inside, too. But sometime during the foreclosure process, the interior was stripped...
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List Price: $3.5 million
The Property: As the father of a teenager, I have to admire Milt and Sylvia Clow’s approach to living with adolescents. In the early 1940s, the Lake Forest couple built one house for themselves and a separate house across the driveway for their two teenagers...
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Residential property tax rates rose—in some cases, steeply—in 9 of 12 representative Cook County municipalities over the past decade, according to the Civic Federation. Meanwhile, taxes on commercial and industrial property went the other direction, declining in 11 of the 12 municipalities...
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List Price: $1.699 million
Sale Price: $1.600 million
The Property: Klaus Fritsch, who, with Arnie Morton, launched Morton’s The Steakhouse in 1978, has sold the 13-room house he built in 1998.
“My house was for parties,” Fritsch says...
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List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: When they set out to build a new home on a corner lot in Lake View eight years ago, the interior designer Tracy Hickman and Chad Munger moved the front door off Barry Avenue and around the corner onto Wolcott Avenue...
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When the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) started moving residents out of two South Side developments nine years ago, Susan Popkin, a public-housing expert at the Urban Institute, worried that it wouldn’t turn out well for the folks who got relocated. “I had a lot of concerns that these people would not manage,” she says, “that it was really going to [harm] them." But last week, Popkin and some colleagues...
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The Properties: Three suburban houses have each sold for exactly $1 million in the month since I reported what $1 million buys in the city. Let’s take a look at what suburban homebuyers are getting for that benchmark price right now...
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List Price: $1.69 million
The Property: The rustic style of the exterior and main interior rooms of this Wheaton home are a tribute to the Vermont skiing club where Ed Morgan, who built the house with his wife, Sally, skied back in the 1950s...
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