McCormicks Sell $4 Million Gold Coast Co-op for Charity
CHARITY CASES: McCormicks left money from co-op sale to five not-for-profits
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Who Bought Best in 1994?
For the great majority of Chicago-area homeowners, the real-estate charts in Chicago’s October issue (just hitting newsstands this week) reflect the dreary news in the housing market. But there are some people who will get a little boost when they check out how their neighborhood or suburb performed…
From One Highland Park Estate to Another
List Price: $3.25 million
Sale Price: $2.65 million
The Property: Three years ago, Jim and Wendy Abrams bought and began renovations on the 17.5-acre Highland Park estate that the United States had seized from the jailed insurance executive Mickey Segal…
A Regal Overhaul of a Lincoln Park Queen Anne
List Price: $1.625 million
The Property: After Anne and Jan Maitland bought this Queen Anne house in 2003, they set about restoring the interior. The foyer, living room, and stairs still retained much of their original detail—nice stained glass, pretty fretwork on the door, and intricate wooden lace on the staircase—so they kept that…
Deal Estate Flash: Cubs President Sells Winnetka Home
Crane Kenney, the president of the Chicago Cubs, has sold his former home in Winnetka. The deal closed September 3rd at $2,582,500; the asking price had been $2,849,000…
Daley’s New Condo Conversion Rules: Too Much, Too Late?
At today’s Chicago City Council meeting, Mayor Daley will introduce an ordinance designed to protect renters whose buildings are going condo, as well as the people who end up buying those condominiums. But not only do these protections come long after the condo conversion boom is over, they also include provisions that could put a burden on developers and perhaps delay any new wave of condo conversions…
Glenview’s Priciest Sale Since 2008
List Price: $3.15 million
Sale Price: $2.85 million
The Property: Set amid lush landscaping and towering oak trees, this 15-room house with a large wrap-around porch sold for the highest price in Glenview since early 2008. Built in 2000 on an acre and a half of land, the house has five bedrooms and seven-plus bathrooms…
From Warehouse to Their House, in Bucktown
List Price: $3.275 million
The Property: An old triangular brick warehouse, last used as a distributorship for Polish folklore items, became a stylish home in the hands of the developers Bob and Karen Ranquist. The mix of original wood beams and brick with new wooden stairs, steel beams in the kitchen addition, and funky custom light fixtures by Toronto’s Castor design gives the home a warm, hand-honed feeling…
A Man’s Dream is His Castle
About a mile south of the O’Hare Oasis on the Tri-State Tollway, a billboard trumpets, “King Wanted.” It’s part of Paul Iwanski’s marketing campaign to sell the 18,000-square-foot castle he is building on a one-acre lot in Oak Brook…
A Deep-Discount Foreclosure Moves Fast, in Park Ridge
List Price: $348,480
Sale Price: NA
The Property: Impressive on the outside, this 13-room Park Ridge home might originally have been quite nice inside, too. But sometime during the foreclosure process, the interior was stripped…