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…
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List Price: $5.3 million
Sale Price: $4.75 million
The Property: This 16-room house with about 135 feet of Lake Michigan beach was sold in April for the highest price paid in Wilmette in nearly two years. Built in 1968 by Hemphill, a company that built thousands of high-end North Shore homes over several decades, this residence was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s, after the then-owner, William De Nicolo, demolished the house next door…
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List Price: $899,000
The Property: This 2,400-square-foot home is one of six condominiums in an ornate 1878 building that originally housed Grant’s Seminary for Young Ladies. It was built by the same bequest that built the Newberry Library a block north…
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