Sale of the Week—Joseph Cari’s Lincoln Park home
List Price: $3.45 million
Sale Price: $3 million
The Property: Though it looks like two townhouses of different vintages, this is actually a single Lincoln Park residence, its two sides built decades apart. From 1999 until October 2007, the 12-room house belonged to Joseph Cari Jr., a once-prominent Democratic fundraiser. In 2005, Cari was indicted on federal charges related to a complex series of board appointments and campaign-fund donations—a tangled web unraveled by Chicago’s Steve Rhodes in…