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1/3/13

Both Sides of Lake View

List Price: $3.45 million
The Property: Today’s property is a handsome brick home, once the coach house of a large estate, built in Lake View in 1913. And today’s property is a slick contemporary clad in metal shingles and horizontal-laid wood siding built in the past six years in Lake View...

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12/27/12

In River Forest, a Remnant of the Century of Progress

List Price: $749,000
The Property: At the Century of Progress World’s Fair held on Chicago’s lakefront from 1933 to 1934, the Federal Housing Administration exhibited a model for a house it hoped to see spring up all over the country. It’s believed that this River Forest residence is that house, rebuilt on a corner lot after the fair...

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12/20/12

A Highland Fling in Wheaton

List Price: $3.265 million
The Property: Everybody likes to bring home souvenirs of their travels. From a trip to Scotland, you might bring back a kilt (like the one I’m wearing in today’s video) or an entire house...

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12/13/12

A Classic Co-op with Lincoln Park Amenities Close By

List Price: $1.45 million
The Property: The best of Lincoln Park comes together along Fullerton Parkway east of Clark Street, with the beautiful park, the lakefront, the zoo, the Caldwell Lily Pool, and the Notebaert Nature Museum all close at hand...

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12/6/12

A Spruced-Up Sears Home in Rogers Park

List Price: $479,000
The Property: There’s a quiet block of classic houses and apartment buildings in Rogers Park where you can tell what a rooted part of the neighborhood it is just by looking at all the well-designed front gardens—several of which still look nice in late fall...

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11/29/12

The Five Buckinghams

List Price: (See individual condos, below)
The Property: Today we’re looking at five different condos for sale in the Buckingham. That just happens to be the same number of musicians that were in the Buckinghams, the Chicago-based band behind the 1967 tune “Kind of a Drag”...

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11/15/12

Reasons to Look Up, in Lincoln Park

List Price: $3.35 million
The Property: On a block in Lincoln Park, things are really headed up. Over the past year, two neighboring houses have sold for more than $4 million each, and across the street, the last remaining old-time eyesore is now undergoing extensive rehab...

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11/8/12

The Shop Around the Corner—Now a Lake View Condo

List Price: $950,000
The Property: East Lake View is now so full of restaurants and homes that it’s hard to imagine that, just a century ago, a swath of it around Halsted and Aldine Streets was a landscape plant farm filled with greenhouses owned by the Wittbold family...

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11/1/12

Born in the Fifties, in Glencoe

List Price: $1,999,000
The Property: No matter what the temperature is outside, it’s always the fifties inside this Glencoe home. Built in 1955, the house has one entire side of glass, facing the steep ravine at the edge of the lot...

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10/25/12

Old Town in Bloom

List Price: $5.7 million
The Property: Over the past ten years, this perfectly nice vintage home in Old Town has bloomed. Opened up with the addition of a second lot next door, the house, thanks to its present seller, Kemery Bloom, has come to life, inside and out...

Posted at 12:43 p.m. in On the Market | Permalink | Comments (2)

	1/3/13 Both Sides of Lake View List Price: $3.45 million The Property: Today’s property is a handsome brick home, once the coach house of a large estate, built in Lake View in 1913. And today’s property is a slick contemporary clad in metal shingles and horizontal-laid wood siding built in the past six years in Lake View... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	12/27/12 In River Forest, a Remnant of the Century of Progress List Price: $749,000 The Property: At the Century of Progress World’s Fair held on Chicago’s lakefront from 1933 to 1934, the Federal Housing Administration exhibited a model for a house it hoped to see spring up all over the country. It’s believed that this River Forest residence is that house, rebuilt on a corner lot after the fair... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	12/20/12 A Highland Fling in Wheaton List Price: $3.265 million The Property: Everybody likes to bring home souvenirs of their travels. From a trip to Scotland, you might bring back a kilt (like the one I’m wearing in today’s video) or an entire house... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	12/13/12 A Classic Co-op with Lincoln Park Amenities Close By List Price: $1.45 million The Property: The best of Lincoln Park comes together along Fullerton Parkway east of Clark Street, with the beautiful park, the lakefront, the zoo, the Caldwell Lily Pool, and the Notebaert Nature Museum all close at hand... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	12/6/12 A Spruced-Up Sears Home in Rogers Park List Price: $479,000 The Property: There’s a quiet block of classic houses and apartment buildings in Rogers Park where you can tell what a rooted part of the neighborhood it is just by looking at all the well-designed front gardens—several of which still look nice in late fall... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (2)
	11/29/12 The Five Buckinghams List Price: (See individual condos, below) The Property: Today we’re looking at five different condos for sale in the Buckingham. That just happens to be the same number of musicians that were in the Buckinghams, the Chicago-based band behind the 1967 tune “Kind of a Drag”... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	11/15/12 Reasons to Look Up, in Lincoln Park List Price: $3.35 million The Property: On a block in Lincoln Park, things are really headed up. Over the past year, two neighboring houses have sold for more than $4 million each, and across the street, the last remaining old-time eyesore is now undergoing extensive rehab... Posted at 12:51 p.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (1)
	11/8/12 The Shop Around the Corner—Now a Lake View Condo List Price: $950,000 The Property: East Lake View is now so full of restaurants and homes that it’s hard to imagine that, just a century ago, a swath of it around Halsted and Aldine Streets was a landscape plant farm filled with greenhouses owned by the Wittbold family... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (1)
	11/1/12 Born in the Fifties, in Glencoe List Price: $1,999,000 The Property: No matter what the temperature is outside, it’s always the fifties inside this Glencoe home. Built in 1955, the house has one entire side of glass, facing the steep ravine at the edge of the lot... Posted at 12:56 p.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (1)
	10/25/12 Old Town in Bloom List Price: $5.7 million The Property: Over the past ten years, this perfectly nice vintage home in Old Town has bloomed. Opened up with the addition of a second lot next door, the house, thanks to its present seller, Kemery Bloom, has come to life, inside and out... Posted at 12:43 p.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (2)

1/3/13

Both Sides of Lake View

12/27/12

In River Forest, a Remnant of the Century of Progress

12/20/12

A Highland Fling in Wheaton

12/13/12

A Classic Co-op with Lincoln Park Amenities Close By

12/6/12

A Spruced-Up Sears Home in Rogers Park

11/29/12

The Five Buckinghams

11/15/12

Reasons to Look Up, in Lincoln Park

11/8/12

The Shop Around the Corner—Now a Lake View Condo

11/1/12

Born in the Fifties, in Glencoe

10/25/12

Old Town in Bloom

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