List Price: $1.499 million
The Property: Built in 1919 on a corner lot in Chicago’s Ravenswood Manor neighborhood, this house impresses on the outside with its brick construction and clay tile roof—and the spacious interior, with its many vintage details, is just as striking…
In a recent study, nearly half of 235 Chicagoans going through foreclosure reported physical symptoms of stress-headaches, sleeplessness, backaches, extreme fatigue, or other problems. Those who felt most confident they would soon resolve the foreclosure problem reported the fewest symptoms. Not surprising? J. Michael Collins, the author of the study, says the news is how … Read more
Some radio listeners might have noticed that Steve Fisher, the new morning host on Fresh 105.9 FM, sounds an awful lot like their real-estate agent, Steve McEwen of @Properties. In fact, the two Steves are alter egos of the same guy…
List Price: $799,000
Sale Price: $770,000
The Property: Tom Skilling, the WGN-TV weather guru, has bought a condo on the Far North Side. Skilling had lived on a higher floor in the 45-story building since 1978, but, unlike his old place, the new condo on a lower floor offers a full view of the lake, it’s like a…
List Price: $799,000
The Property: One of the 40 homes on Alta Vista Terrace, this row house has many of its original 103-year-old features. But the place has been updated with new baths and with windows that keep the heat indoors so residents won’t feel as if they are inhabiting the dank interiors of Dickensian…
Bluff’s Edge is a handsome Georgian mansion built in 1928 on four acres above the south end of Lake Forest’s town beach. In 1892, the grounds were the scene of what is believed to be the first golf game played in Chicago, which led to…
List Price: $2.875 million
Sale Price: $2.830 million
The Property: Just 13 months ago, this house was a bank-owned mess. The bank, Countrywide, let it go as a short sale for $1.85 million—although in 2006 it had approved a mortgage on the place for $4.1 million.
List Price: $989,000
The Property: When Gary and Marcia Myers first saw this 1902 Victorian in Oak Park 26 years ago, it was well past its prime. But the couple eagerly took it on—“I like to have a project,” Gary recalls—partly because of its excellent location on a street of impressive older homes only a short walk from Oak Park–River Forest High School and the town’s bustling central shopping district…
PJ and Jaime Klacko have 10,000 reasons to be thankful this week—the $10,000 that the city of Lockport will kick in on the purchase of their newly built house, which should finish construction next March. They are among the first dozen buyers to take advantage of an incentive…
List Price: $1,275,000
Sale Price: $1,165,000
The Property: Michael Cooke, who served two stints as editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, has sold his house in Wilmette. “We haven’t severed links with Chicago,” Cooke says. “We may keep…
