Lake Forest Estate is 99 Years New
List Price: $8.499 million
The Property: A grand estate built in 1911 but allowed to run down in later years, this stately brick mansion has been brought back to its exquisite origins—but with modern conveniences…
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Renters Snap Up Obamas' Former Condo
A four-bedroom condo that was home to Barack and Michelle Obama from 1993 to 2005 was supposed to go on the rental market this week after having some painting done—but a pair of renters grabbed it over the weekend. The first-floor condo is in Eastview Park, a gated block-long cluster of brick and limestone six-flats that run south from 53rd Street and face the lakefront park and Lake Shore Drive…
Calamos Investment President Sells at a Loss in St. Charles
List Price: $2.5 million
Sale Price: $2.4 million
The Property: Nick Calamos, president of investments at Calamos Investment Management, a Naperville firm with $29.9 billion in assets under its control, last week sold a 21-room pondside home in St. Charles…
Hiding in Plain Sight, in Kenwood
List Price: $1.95 million
The Property: On a Kenwood block of very substantial historical homes is one relative youngster that, on the street side at least, tries to fade from view. Three decades ago, the architect James Nagle, designed the house…
A Bridgeport Surprise: Buyers Fill Up Phase One
I was skeptical last March when a developer showed me around a rubble-strewn site on the north side of Bridgeport where he was planning to unveil a development of 29 new homes. The area around the site, sandwiched between the Stevenson Expressway and the South Branch of the Chicago River, is a somewhat isolated patch three blocks wide that is filled with small industrial buildings and modest, dowdy older houses…
Lincoln Park Brownstone Moves Quickly after Price Change
THE PRICE WAS RIGHT: Brownstone moves quickly after sellers take a realistic approach
Condos in 1925 Building Evoke a Grander Era
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Gouletas Son Short-Sells Penthouse at the Sterling
List Price: $899,000
Sale Price: $885,000
The Property: In 2001, when Nicholas V. Gouletas was an executive with the family-owned firm that built the Sterling at 345 North LaSalle Drive, he posed for a publicity photo slicing into a five-foot-tall cake in the shape of the 50-story building. More recently, he did some cutting of a different kind, slashing the price on his 2,700-square-foot, 47th-floor condo…
Family-Friendly Renovation in Lake Bluff
List Price: $2.395 million
The Property: “I’ve become a lover of sunrises because of living here,” John McKinven says of the circa 1938 home where he and his wife, Lynn, and their children live, across the street from Lake Bluff’s sublime blufftop Sunrise Park.
Beachfront Winnetka Home Scores Top Price Since 2006
WINNETKA LIST PRICE: $6,750,000 SALE PRICE: $6,621,300 A new 16-room mansion with a 112-foot private beach on Lake Michigan was sold in March for more than $6.6 million—Winnetka’s priciest house sale in four years. Built on a nearly one-acre lot on a secluded block-long lane, this house has an elaborately detailed limestone façade and … Read more