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Incorruptibly Wisconsin

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Sellers of homes typically tout a location’s best qualities: its excellent schools, quaint shopping areas, or easy access to major commuting routes. But the owner of one southern Wisconsin property opted to extol a very unusual advantage of his location—buy there and you can get away from the corrupt politicians of Illinois…

Townhouse Penthouse at Lakeshore East

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List Price: $2,800,000
Sale Price: $3,216,098
The Property: Situated south of the Chicago River and west of Lake Shore Drive, downtown’s Lakeshore East is best known as a neighborhood of dramatic new high-rise towers, including Aqua and 340 on the Park. But in its southeast corner…

Condos at 50 East Chestnut Offer 270-Degree Views

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GOLD COAST FROM $2,871,000 TO $3,495,900 There are almost no windows on the north wall of the condos at 50 East Chestnut—but the glassy south-facing expanse that stretches across the full 80-foot width of each condo more than compensates. “Everyone here gets 270-degree views,” says Ellen Nemirow, the agent representing the building for Jameson, the real-estate … Read more

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