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Developer carves ten condos from former mail center
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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
On The Market—You Can Ring My Bell, in Irving Park
List price: $975,000
The Property: While searching for a home, Zbigniew and Beata Banas became accidental developers. They found a property they liked—a shuttered church in the Irving Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side—but the building, a simple peaked structure with a spire piercing its roof, proved far too large for just one…
Housing Bulletin— A Foreclosure and its Neighbor, In Glenview
The latest reports show that the tide of foreclosures keeps rising. Last week, Realty Trac reported that one of every 538 mortgaged homes in Illinois is in some stage of foreclosure. (In the Chicago metropolitan area, Kane County had the highest concentration—1 in 415 mortgages—and DuPage County had the lowest: 1 in 734.) The week before, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that 2.5 percent of all mortgages were…