Lower Prices, Fattened Floor Plans in Lincoln Park Condos
A WIDE CHOICE: Developer offers an alternative to high neighborhood prices
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Evanston House Occupies Former Daniel Burnham Estate
List Price: $1.495 million
Sale Price: $1.100 million
The Property: For such a squat and unlovely thing, this 48-year-old house occupies a prime piece of Evanston property with great views and plenty of historical cachet. The lot, a third of an acre, was once part of the six-acre estate of the architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham…
A David Adler-Designed Home in Lincoln Park
List Price: $3.6 million
The Property: Just south of the Elks Memorial in Lincoln Park is a short block of four attached homes that hardly draw attention to themselves, with their flat brick front that confines frills to the fanlight windows over their street-level front doors…
For Sale: A Segment of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Coonley House
The Coonley House in Riverside is among the most magnificent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs in Chicago. This week I had the great pleasure of roaming its main rooms and gardens with Dean and Ella Mae Eastman, the couple who renovated a major portion of the property and have put part of it up for sale…
A Half-Priced Mansion in St. Charles
List Price: $779,000
Sale Price: $755,000
The Property: This luxurious 13-room home in the Burr Hill Club neighborhood of St. Charles sold in 2006 for $1.499 million. But in July, the foreclosing lender told John Wright, the Weichert Realtors agent representing the house, to cut the asking price from $819,000 to $779,000…
All in the (Naperville) Family
List Price: $1.485 million
The Property: There aren’t too many families that can outgrow a six-bedroom, 6,500-square-foot house, but Mike and Nancy Cowden managed to do it…
More Aid in the Works for Struggling Illinois Homeowners
In 2011, tens of thousands of struggling Illinois homeowners may receive the financial aid they need to hold onto their houses under a program being prepared by the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA). The agency has been allocated $445.6 million of U.S. Treasury TARP funds to help unemployed and under-employed homeowners stay out of foreclosure and is now working on the details of how to get that money to homeowners…
Bannockburn Foreclosure Was Bear’s Rental Lair
List Price: $1.375 million
Sale Price: $1.375 million
The Property: This 11-room Bannockburn home, which sold at foreclosure on September 30th, was rented for a year by Orlando Pace, the onetime offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears…
Going the Extra Mile in Hinsdale
List Price: $2,799,900
The Property: The wood, stone, and copper that detail the peaked façade of this newly built Hinsdale house hint at the level of attention that went into the 18-room interior. “The wood trim in here is measured in miles,” says Bryan Bomba, the Coldwell Banker agent representing the house for its builder, Montreux Custom Homes…
Driehaus Awards Go to Two Residential Reuse Projects
On Saturday, two Chicago residential projects will be among nine recipients of Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards from Landmarks Illinois…