Four Real-Estate/Architecture Events
You can tell it’s fall when the calendar starts to fill up with must-do events. Here are four that should interest people intrigued by Chicago architecture and real estate…
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The Best We Could Get Was 88th Place?
A new national ranking of suburbs came out last week, bringing with it two surprises for Chicagoans. The first surprise was that a place many don’t even know exists…
Rodkin on Why Contracts Dry Up—and What to Do about It
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Ellen from Old Irving Park asks why people who are interested in buying homes are allowing their contracts to dry up.
Mr. Big Stuff Eats Crow
List Price: $749,900
Sale Price: $685,000
The Property: In June, Scott Sasse, a real-estate agent who specializes in the West Loop, e-mailed me the listing for his own condo, which he had just put on the market…
Jim McMahon’s Former Home Prepped for Another Championship Season
List Price: $4.954 million
The Property: On an elite wooded street in east Northbrook stands a substantial house with exterior details that you might find on some historical country homes in England…
A Guide to Wicker Park: Where to Eat, Shop, and Play
INSIDER’S GUIDE: New spots like the Emporium Arcade Bar and the Purple Cow preserve the neighborhood’s trendy rep
Mother Cabrini Shrine Reopens
At the base of Lincoln Park 2550, a posh condo tower nearing completion at Lakeview Avenue and St. James Place, a modest set of classical columns flanks the project’s southeast corner…
Rodkin on ‘Claw Backs’—a.k.a. Refinancing to Regain Equity
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Todd from Naperville asks about doing a refinance to “claw back” the equity in a home.
Odd Façades: E is for Erie, F is for Fish
The Properties: The façades of two recently sold new houses in the city feature big, playful visual puns—and each of them is part of a different builder’s long-range game plan…
Elmhurst’s Checkerboard Chimney Charmer
List Price: $850,000
The Property: From first sight, it’s obvious that this Normandy-style home has a lot of history in Elmhurst. Built in 1930 as part of a subdivision…