List Price: $899,000
Sale Price: $825,000
The Property: From its rooftop widow’s walk to its lacy front-porch railings, this Italianate Victorian home in Naperville may look like a holdover from the 19th century—but its story is very much of the 21st century…
A major change in Cook County’s taxable property classifications and assessments, along with the decline in home values in recent years, has many people wondering whether they should appeal their tax bills. The Civic Federation has a set of four documents that explain why and how to appeal in Cook County, all posted at http://civicfed.org/civic-federation/propertytax. … Read more
A CHANGE OF HEART: Doctor and his wife opt for short sale after market failure
IN HISTORY’S HOUSE: From first settlers to the Lady Elgin, residence has connections to Winnetka’s past
List Price: $4.99 million
The Property: The formal, Parisian-styled façade of this home masks its past life as a warehouse, just as the stone wall that extends from it conceals a lovely garden through which a path winds to the house’s broad glass front doors…
With the Chicago Blackhawks on a six-game road trip, Jim Cornelison, the team’s popular national anthem singer, can grab a little time to focus on his day job: selling real estate…
List Price: $2.99 million
Sale Price: $2.7 million
The Property: This new English-accented home in Lake View’s esteemed Blaine School district is the first project sold by a developer who came into the struggling residential real-estate market with a strategy of capitalizing on sagging prices…
The buyers of the red brick house at 25 East Cedar Street where Frank Lloyd Wright lived during one of the most tumultuous chapters of his life will tear it down and build a new residence on the site, according to the real-estate agent for the home’s sellers…
List Price: $2.59 million
The Property: From its large turret to its leaded-glass windows and beamed ceilings, this well-kept home from 1893 (with a 1930s addition) contains many attractive Tudor details…
On Tuesday, the latest data from the Case Shiller Index showed that among the country’s 20 largest cities, Chicago-area home values for November 2010 took the second-largest fall from the year before. Prices were down 7.6 percent from November 2009; only Atlanta, at 7.9 percent, fell further…
