List Price: $990,000
Sale Price: $1,355,000
The Property: In another sign that homebuyers may be turning their attention to the bargains available on the foreclosure market, the bank that had control of this 16-room Glenview house received seven offers…
List Price: $3.995 million
The Property: This very large, lavish house, set on two acres in western Lake Forest, has a nice array of formal spaces—such as the big dining room and the dark-paneled office—complemented by high-end finishes…
B. J. Armstrong, the retired Chicago Bull who is now a sports agent and an analyst on ESPN, has sold a Highland Park house that he put on the market in the summer of 2008. The sale closed Monday at $1.8 million, down more than $1 million…
Jack Ryan, who in 2004 dropped out of a contest against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat, is selling a vacant lakefront lot in Wilmette. He and his wife, Amanda, are asking $4.95 million for the property, which is a little over 1.3 acres and has about 120 feet of beach frontage. “We had a beautiful home planned for [the site], but we’re not sure we’ll be spending…
Related: PHOTO GALLERY » The penthouse’s interior in all its splendor LAKE VIEW LIST PRICE: $5.75 million The marvelous view across Lincoln Park to Lake Michigan has not changed much since 1927, when this two-story apartment atop a then-new 18-story co-op building became the masterfully designed home of Charles and Elizabeth “Bobsy” Goodspeed. Key rooms … Read more
List Price: $1.495 million
Sale Price: $1.425 million
The Property: The bland façade of this U-shaped Winnetka house, with its front door set in a wall of glass, only hints at what lies inside: glass walls on three sides of a courtyard that give the…
List Price: $499,900
The Property: Fourteen years ago, Jim and Lisa Whittington bought a tiny Sears Catalog house built in the 1920s in the leafy, charming Sauganash neighborhood on the city’s far northwest side. Although it was originally a two-bedroom house with…
Among the architectural treasures of Glencoe are two small collections of homes designed by eminent 20th-century architects—and each of those neighborhoods has a derelict house, a victim of the recent housing bust.
Ravine Bluffs is a cluster of six homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1910s. The derelict house there now has a savior, a Chicago architect who…
List Price: $1.325 million
Sale Price: $1.225 million
The Property: Jim Karas, the Chicago-based fitness trainer to the stars as well as the author of three top-selling fitness books, will close on his purchase of a Gold Coast condo later this month.
After listening to the concerns of locals, developer reacted like a good neighbor
