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.
List Price: $6.5 million
Sale Price: Not known
The Property: Laura Ricketts, one of four members of the Ricketts family on the board of the Chicago Cubs, is in the process of buying a $6.5-million lakefront house in Wilmette with her partner, Heidi Grathouse, real-estate sources in Wilmette confirm…
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…
NEW DIVISION: Strollers in Hipersterville! With new kids’ shops and a smattering of upscale clothing boutiques, Wicker Park’s Division Street looks different than it did a year ago. Here’s our guide to some favorite finds
The converted 19th-century church that was once home to the R&B musician R. Kelly will be put up for sale on June 7th. Extensively renovated in the past 18 months, the place is now a four-bedroom home with a marble-clad fireplace in the living room, a sleek kitchen, a 1,500-square-foot rooftop terrace with an outdoor kitchen, and an elevator.
List Price: $1.310 million
Sale Price: $1.150 million
The Property: Not Chicago’s highest-priced foreclosure, but its highest off the ground, this penthouse on the 59th and 60th floors of Millennium Centre (at 33 West Ontario Street) tops the previous high…
List Price: $784,900
The Property: Six years ago, in a small cluster of homes set in a wooded, U-shaped bend of the Des Plaines River immediately south of Riverside, the carpenter and building contractor Alex Pejsz found the project of his dreams: a handsome 1899 house sorely in need of restoration.
May and June bring prime bicycling weather to Chicago. This year, the Active Transportation Alliance is peddling a new idea: suburban house-hunting by bike. On Sunday, June 13th, in Oak Park and on Saturday, June 19th, in Homewood the alliance will host free bicycle tours of houses for sale…
HABIT-ABLE: For one builder, old ways prevail, even when he is only renovating
