Abel Bodied
Home of decorated vet may have welcomed FDR and Ike
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Sale of the Week—An Evanston House Swap
List Price (Tudor): $2.975 million
Sale Price: $2.975 million
List Price (Brick): $1.295 million
Sale Price: $1.225 million
The Properties: The owners of these two homes swapped houses—even though it wasn’t an even trade. In fact, as you can see, one residence is worth more than twice the other…
Parceled Post
Developer carves ten condos from former mail center
Cooking in the Jazz Age
Roomy, updated kitchens enhance already elegant fixtures at Grand Briar
On The Market—Glenview’s Passage to India
List Price: $4,495,000
The Property: At this 14,000-square-foot house in Glenview, a pair of large, intricately carved front doors made of sagwan wood open into a granite-floored foyer illuminated by a crystal chandelier. While the chandelier is Austrian, the wood and the granite are from…
Housing Bulletin—Victory Gardens’ Real-Estate Reality Check
In Relatively Close, the new James Sherman comedy that opened at Victory Gardens Theater last week, three adult sisters and their families gather at their late parents’ longtime summer home in Union Pier, Michigan. One of the sisters wants to sell the place, and she’s planning to spend the week convincing her sisters it’s a …
Sale of the Week—In Highland Park, Bad News for a Bear
List Price: $995,000
Sale Price: $950,000
The Property: For 20 years this 13-room Highland Park house belonged to Dave Duerson, who was on Super Bowl–winning teams with the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants. But Duerson recently lost…
A Buyer’s Market
Would-be homeowners are discovering the silver lining behind the falling prices in the local real-estate market. Here are six housing bargains snapped up by lucky or savvy buyers so far this year
Let There Be Light
With the help from the developer, these spacious two-bedroom condos are filled with sunshine
See Change
Design enhances views