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A Distant Division Street
Artful layout at Vision condo development helps keep busy urban thoroughfare at bay
Paying Court
Extra-deep enclosure gives residents lots of open space
Over, Under, Sideways, Down
Tracking the vacillating value of local homes
Finding Zook’s Nooks
Owners uncover hidden design features left by idiosyncratic architect
Play House
Tracy Letts gives up rental for modern 12-room home
Twitter’s New COO Sells in Wilmette
List Price: $1,449,000
Sale Price: $1,400,000
The Property: Two weeks before he was named chief operating officer of the San Francisco-based microblogging service Twitter, Dick Costolo sold his 12-room home in central Wilmette…
A Three-Way at Carl Street Studios
List Price: $2.6 million
The Property: Beginning in the late 1920s, Sol Kogen and Edgar Miller, two former classmates at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, transformed a faded Victorian mansion in Lincoln Park into what Kogen originally hoped would become an artists’ compound like those he had seen in Paris’s Montmartre district. Unable to rein in their urge to…
Johnson’s Stacks
Over the past few months, as the new 47-story condo tower at Van Buren and Franklin Streets has taken shape, it’s become clear that the city has another Ralph Johnson dazzler on its hands. Known as 235 Van Buren, the building impresses from all viewpoints, be it the seemingly crazy pattern of box balconies projecting off the south side; the ribbon of concrete running…
Ex-Cub Mark Prior Sells His Lincoln Park Townhouse
List Price: $695,000
Sale Price: $676,000
The Property: The pitcher Mark Prior has sold the Lincoln Park townhouse that he bought in 2002 several months after arriving in Chicago to great expectations. Prior left the Cubs in December 2007, but he didn’t put the four-bedroom townhouse on the market until…