Just a few years ago, new subdivisions were marching west from St. Charles through Campton Hills toward Lily Lake, a tiny community that lies almost at the center of Kane County. Pairing that movement with a burgeoning interest in building methods that have a lighter impact on the land, a group of developers devised a…
List Price: $3,595,000
Sale Price: $3,000,000
The Property: Two unnamed grandparents have bought the landmark 134-year-old Cornelius Field House in Highland Park. “The buyers’ plans are to appreciate everything about it and keep it all together,” says Blanche Romey Egan, who handled the sale of the house for the estate of Martha Ferguson MacLeod.“They are going to build a…
The writer and lawyer Scott Turow sold his lakefront mansion in Glencoe for $5 million on December 17th; he paid $4.79 million for the place when he bought it in 2001. Deal Estate broke the news last month that the house, priced at $5.9 million, was under contract. The buyers are not yet identified in public records.
List Price: $1.775 million
The Property: Some people bring home pictures of picturesque old homes they admired while traveling. Ted and Ellen Roberts of St. Charles went one better: they built a replica of the governor’s mansion in Richmond, Virginia, a Federal-style home that they happened upon on when visiting the onetime Confederate capital in the early 1990s.
Mike and Robin Nasatir spent much of the 1990s restoring a country villa in Highland Park that had been built in 1919 for a wealthy bachelor and his paramour, the opera singer Mary Garden. Now, with their two children almost grown, the Nasatirs are ready to move from the 22-room house.
LAKE VIEW FROM $209,000 TO $359,900 When it opened in 1958, the 23-story apartment building at 2930 North Sheridan Road had a distinctly “now” look, from its façade of strip windows to a swooping driveway canopy punctured by big, bulbous skylights. Its conversion to condos in the past two years came at the right time, … Read more
SOUTH LOOP FROM $279,900 TO $2.299 million Price reductions can cut two ways for a condo developer: While they surely make the leftover inventory more appealing to buyers, they can also anger existing owners who bought at higher prices. At The Columbian, a new condo tower at 1160 South Michigan Avenue, cuts have been deep … Read more
NORTH CENTER FROM $194,990 TO $298,990 Two small parks totaling three-quarters of an acre weave between, surround, and unify the trio of new buildings at an innovative campus of senior-citizen housing in the North Center neighborhood. Two of the buildings in the one-square-block compound (which also includes an Advocate medical office) contain rental apartments. The … Read more
List Price: $850,000 Sale Price: $825,000 The Property: ranch house in Riverwoods that was designed by Photos that accompanied the listing show a mostly white interior with lightly stained wood steps and steel pipe handrails. Roy, a five-time Emmy winner who writes an
Neighborhood-news website creator buys a two-story with a river view
