Next month the Chicago Housing Authority will announce which applicants will get the nod to do the next piece of its ten-year-old Plan For Transformation: redeveloping Lathrop Homes with a mix of market-rate, affordable, and public housing.
High Life: The big-shouldered city still stands tall
Loft Graduate with Honors: An A-plus for innovative design elements at this former cap-and-gown factory
GOLD COAST LIST PRICE: N/A SALE PRICE: $4,433,500 At the posh new Elysian, a unit on the 41st floor has sold for $4,433,500, the priciest sale yet at the 60-story hotel-and-condos tower at 11 East Walton Street. The buyers, David and Libby Savner, recently moved back to Chicago from the Washington, D.C., area after David … Read more
Black’s Law: Professor figures he can afford pricey rehab on bargain manse
UPTOWN FROM $359,000 TO $479,900 At 5014-5018 North Kenmore Avenue, where only three of 12 condos had been sold in a pair of new buildings, the developer, Gerry Carey, has made some price cuts. They range from 6 percent off a three-bedroom, two-bath third-floor unit to 14 percent off a four-bedroom, three-bath unit spread across … Read more
WEST TOWN FROM $289,900 TO $359,900 The developer who put up a row of nine four-story buildings in the 2800 block of West Chicago Avenue abandoned the project after selling the condos in five of the buildings. The remaining four—two on each end of the row—sat unfinished until Peter Allen, who has built several condo projects on … Read more
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…
