Lucien Lagrange Condo Grows With the Economy
ON THE LEVEL(S): Lincoln Park 2520 regains six of its eight lost stories after a final round of construction funding comes through
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Ambassador’s Lake Forest Mansion Slides Off the Market
THE CUBAN SLIDE: Despite being designed by one of MOMA’s architects for a Cuban envoy, the 25-room house goes as short sale
Big Ben
List Price: $2.499 million
The Project: By far the largest home in the St. Ben’s neighborhood, this newly completed mansion fills the shell of a former six-flat apartment building. The builder Bill Varney took advantage of the wide, shallow structure to create a home whose expansive southern façade lets virtually every room bask in sunlight…
New Apartments Restore Dr. King’s Legacy in North Lawndale
This spring, for the first time in more than 40 years, people will be living at the same North Lawndale address as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his family did in 1966, when he came here to dramatize the desperate state of housing in Chicago’s minority neighborhoods…
Ex-Blackhawk Byfuglien Sells in Roscoe Village
Dustin Byfuglien, a key player on the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup–winning squad who now skates for the Atlanta Thrashers, on Monday closed on the sale of his former Roscoe Village home. The sale price was $1.08 million—14 percent less than the $1.265 million Byfuglien paid for the newly built 12-room house in December 2008…
Cook County Republican Bound for Texas Sells in Wilmette
List Price: $829,000
Sale Price: Not available
The Property: Roger Keats, the Republican candidate who lost last fall’s election for president of the Cook County Board, has pronounced himself sick of corruption in Illinois and sold his Wilmette home to move to Texas…
The Blue White House in Chatham
For a closer look at the house, launch the photo gallery. List Price: $899,900 The Property: In 1966, a couple named Smith built their homage to the White House—only they used imported blue Italian brick. The home has long been a landmark in Chatham, known for its Georgian porch and pillars, its bright blue walls, … Read more
Tax Referendums May Understate Economic Impact on Homeowners
When voting April 5th on local tax referendums, voters in ten Cook County communities may get the impression that any increase on their property-tax bills will be only about a third of the actual increase…
A Ravenswood House with a North Chicago Clone
List Price: $1.699 million
Sale Price: $1.606 million
The Property: In 1891, just three years after founding the company that would grow into the pharmaceutical giant Abbott Labs, Wallace Abbott built this 15-room house in what was then the Chicago suburb Ravenwsood…
A Miniature Chateau in Highland Park
List Price: $799,000
The Property: Although the North Shore has many grandly scaled chateaux, this Highland Park home demonstrates that grandeur can come in medium-size packages, too. All the architectural detail and lavish finishes of some of the area’s finer residences are tucked into an eight-room house designed to feel like a centuries-old home in France’s Brittany region…