Let the Games Begin at Coliseum Park
Developer hopes to spur sales with price reductions
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Frank Galati Sells His Lakeshore East Condo
On Monday, Frank Galati, the Tony Award–winning Chicago director and actor, and his partner, Peter Amster, who is also a theatre director, sold their condo at 340 on the Park, which overlooks Millennium Park…
$7.2 Million Sale Atop the Four Seasons—and Another Downstairs for $2.25 Million
List Price: $9.95 million
Sale Price: $7.2 million
The Property: The 4,300-square-foot penthouse atop the Bloomingdale’s building—at Michigan Avenue and Delaware Place—was sold on April 28th for $7.2 million…
A Vintage Lake View Greystone With Room to Grow
List Price: $985,000
The Property: When making their coffee order, some people ask for the drink “with room”—space at the top of the cup for adding cream or sugar. Here’s a 124-year-old greystone in Lake View that comes with room: about 1,000 feet of unfinished walk-up attic space with 12-foot ceilings that could become a master suite or an enormous family room…
Census Shows African Americans Leaving High-Priced Suburbs
As home prices soared in the first years of the 21st century, several of Chicago’s most desirable suburbs saw their African American population decrease, according to new data from the Metropolitan Planning Council. At the same time, the African American population boomed in some of the outer-ring suburbs, where inexpensive subdivision houses were built in large numbers between 2000 and 2010…
Bank Loses Money on Former Chicago Bull John Salmons's House
PASSING THE BUCK: After the athlete headed for Milwaukee, PrivateBank took a big loss on the house he rented
Pampered Chef Founder Goes on House Diet
Kitchenware executive downsizes, but new house still has 13 rooms
Andy Bluhm, Son of JMB’s Neil Bluhm, Sells in Glencoe
List Price: $2.85 million
Sale Price: $2.3 million
The Property: Andy Bluhm, the son of JMB Realty’s Neil Bluhm and an investor in his father’s three casino projects, has sold his contemporary-styled ranch house in Glencoe…
Linda Johnson Rice Sells on the Gold Coast
Linda Johnson Rice, the chairman of Johnson Publishing, closed yesterday on the sale of her ten-room condo at the Carlyle. The sale price was $2,255,815—77 percent of the $2.9 million Rice was asking when she first listed the condo for sale in April 2010…
An Old Hyde Park House Remade for Today
List Price: $2.25 million
The Property: If you had designed a home in the late 1880s knowing how families would live in 2011, you might have come up with today’s residence: imposing on the outside—all that rough-cut limestone and a pair of turrets—but warm and casual on the inside…