Widow of Late McDonald’s CEO Sells Their Oak Brook Home
List Price: $3,749,000
Sale Price: $3,125,000
The Property: The 19-room house in Oak Brook that belonged to James and Joann Cantalupo was sold on August 11th…
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Art Nouveau Marvels in a Buena Park Condo
List Price: $424,900
The Property: Originally the main living rooms of a mansion built in 1903, this second-floor condo has some original design elements that have been carefully preserved and restored. The most noteworthy of these features is an Art Nouveau fireplace, where flared columns flank a tile mosaic depicting yellow roses. The mantelpiece is a mirrored glass cabinet that bows outward. Nearby are…
Who’s Happy?
Three dispatches about happiness:
According to a new homeowner confidence survey from Zillow.com, homeowners in the Midwest are more glum about the near-term future of the value of their homes than their counterparts in the rest of the country. The survey, released Tuesday, comes on the heels of…
Blackhawks’ Dave Bolland Buying in Lake View
List Price: $1.849 million
Sale Price: Under contract; price not yet disclosed
The Property: Having signed a five-year, $16.875-million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in late June, David Bolland is now working on another contract: the one to purchase a seven-bedroom house in Lake View…
Less Than Half its Original Price—Glenview
List Price: $969,000
Sale Price: $880,000
The Property: Originally offered by its builder at $2.1 million, this 12-room Glenview house sold at foreclosure on July 6th for $880,000—or 41.9 percent of what the builder had once hoped to get for it…
Lofty Ambitions Deliver an Urbane Home—Near North Side
List Price: $3.4 million
The Property: It must have been blind optimism that convinced Tom Tremback back in 1991 that he could turn a fleabag of an apartment building into a loft-style home. Whatever it was, he bought a 100-year-old structure on LaSalle Street that held five decrepit apartments and started renovating. It took ten years of work before he could move in—and a few more before he could call the entire place a…
Mining Zillow’s Latest Data
On Tuesday, Zillow.com released its latest round of quarterly fitness reports for the residential real-estate market. It’s an intricately detailed look at home values in cities across the country from March to May of 2009. Visitors to the site can zero in on individual Chicago suburbs and neighborhoods…
Dwyane Wade Buys in River North (Update: He Sold It)
The NBA and Olympic Star just passed off the Kinzie Park home he bought in 2009.
A Foreclosure with a Happy Ending
Three years ago, Stephanie and Bob Walker paid $799,000 for a three-bedroom house on a ridge in the Silverlake section of Los Angeles with a view of the Hollywood sign and the Griffith Park Observatory. This summer, they were camped out in the Barrington home of Stephanie’s mother, having lost a yearlong struggle to hang onto their house in…
A Star-Struck Condo Sale—Old Town
List Price: $1,249,900
Sale Price: $1,125,000
The Property: While she was in Chicago last year filming Public Enemies with Johnny Depp, the French actress Marion Cotillard rented this five-room, 2,500-square-foot condo on the fifth floor of an Old Town building…