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Former Sara Lee CFO Theo De Kool Takes Loss on Sale of Lincoln Park Home

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LINCOLN PARK LIST PRICE: $2,195,000 SALE PRICE: $2,012,500 Theo de Kool, until late last year the chief financial officer at Sara Lee, has sold his 19th-century Lincoln Park row house for $2,012,500. He and his wife, Nanette Wartenbergh, paid $2.325 million for the 13-room home in 2007—which means the couple took a 13 percent loss on the recent sale. … Read more

A Cottage Grows in Wilmette

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List Price: $950,000
The Property: When it was 99 years old, this Wilmette home grew from a modest two-bedroom cottage into a four-bedroom Victorian with fanciful Carpenter Gothic trim. Built in 1893 in what is now a highly desirable eastern

Prairie Avenue’s Unlikely Survivor

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A 125-year-old brick and sandstone Queen Anne–style mansion at 28th Street and Prairie Avenue is on the market for the first time ever. As you will see in the video, the 24-room house—which withstood white flight, as well as the construction (and subsequent demolition) of a public…

Michelle Obama's Stylist Selling River North Salon

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Michael Flowers, who styled Michelle Obama’s hair from the time she was 18 up to and including the day of her husband’s inauguration, is putting his salon, Van Cleef Hair Studio, up for sale. Flowers and his partner, Daryl Wells, who also runs the studio (at 56 West Huron Street), want to retire to Costa Rica, where they own land, Wells says.

Going Yard in Bucktown

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List Price: $1.89 million
The Property: Transforming an old Bucktown hardware store into this single-family home was a complex project, but it had at least one thing going for it. Because the existing building filled its site all the way to the lot lines, the home could be deeper and wider than new construction…