A Record Sale in Lake Bluff

List Price: $6.39 million
Sale Price: $5.5 million
The Property: The buyer of a secluded lakefront mansion on part of an old Armour family estate in Lake Bluff appears to have paid more for it than anyone has ever spent for a private home in that North Shore town…

Boystown Condo Shows Pride of Ownership

List Price: $480,000
The Property: The spacious sixth-floor terrace of this condo at the Dakota would make a nice perch from which to watch Sunday’s Pride Parade wend its way through the streets of Boystown. On any other day, the terrace is also the spot to take in a 180-degree view that encompasses Lake Michigan, the green roofs of the Center on Halsted, a neighboring police station, and the big “Chicago Cubs” sign poised above the center field bleachers at Wrigley Field…

Getting Wright Right

Brown like the nearby tree trunks and terminating in a raised porch that blends indoors and out, the George Millard house in Highland Park exemplifies how well a residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright can coexist with its surroundings. Now the family that has spent 19 years restoring the home is ready to move on.

The Marshall Plan, Gold Coast

List Price: $3.175 million
The Property: Once known as the Stewart Apartments, 1200 North Lake Shore Drive is a Gold Coast classic. Designed by Benjamin Marshall and completed in 1913, it has a neoclassical Adam-style façade and offers, from its upper floors, spectacular views toward Lake Michigan…