Prairie Avenue Survivor Gets a New Champion
List Price: $599,000
Sale Price: $450,000
The Property: The Wood-Maxey-Boyd house, a Prairie Avenue treasure from 1885, has a new owner—only its third…
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Minding a Hinsdale Manor—and Former Groupon Chief Lists His Kenwood Home
List Price: $6.72 million
The Property: The blocks south and southeast of Hinsdale’s downtown are replete with imposing homes of various eras and styles. Set among them is this new English manor, whose brick and timber Tudor façade could pass for a much older home…
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.
A Hollywood Bungalow in Ravenswood Gardens
List Price: $1.25 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: From the outside, this 1920 house in Ravenswood Gardens looks a lot like countless other homes in the city’s bungalow belt…
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…
Foes from a 1984 Project Square Off Again Over Webster Square
If it seems like the struggle over plans to redevelop the shuttered Lincoln Park Hospital as a mix of homes, retail, and offices has been going on a long time, get this: some of the players say it’s rooted, in part, in a struggle 27 years ago over a residential project about six blocks away…
A Cautionary Foreclosure Tale from Naperville
List Price: $825,000
Sale Price: $781,000
The Property: Although buying, fixing, and reselling foreclosures has become a hot investment prospect, this Naperville home may stand as a cautionary tale…
New Trio Duo Deals in Fulton River District
Naperville-Boston partnership cuts prices and offers high-tech perks
Roscoe Village’s Splendor in the Glass
List Price: $750,000
The Property: A onetime corner candy store in Chicago got a very hip update when its corner-wrapping windows were replaced with a quirky mosaic of glass block. It’s a visual embodiment of what’s happened throughout the Roscoe Village neighborhood over the past two decades, as that former working-class community got an infusion of contemporary cool…
For Sale: A Potential Penthouse Above the Loop
If you thought Rahm Emanuel has had a hard time getting an unwelcome tenant out of his Ravenswood house, imagine what it will take to turn the secret penthouse at the top of 200 North Dearborn into a home: to create what could be your terrace, you would first have to move an air-handling machine that weighs several tons…