List Price: $3,799,000 The Property: This house is the enemy of right angles-and of ordinariness. From its jutting, multi-angled façade to its dramatic central fireplace (whose exposed chimney is a two-story assemblage of panels, tubes, and ribs), the house, built in 1992, refuses to be a vanilla box-although most of the interior walls are a … Read more
While they renovate the Gold Coast mansion (pictured at right) they bought last year for $14.5 million, J. B. and M. K. Pritzker are living in a 13-room townhouse two blocks away. The monthly rent: $30,000. Jay Robert ‘J. B.’ Pritzker, a member of the fourth Chicago generation of the uber-wealthy clan, is a partner … Read more
The architect Paul Florian lives large in a small apartment on the Gold Coast
List Price: $4.25 million Sale Price: $6 million The Property: A River North penthouse with huge windows and decks on every side that maximize dramatic all-directions views of the city, this 18th-floor spread also has its own indoor lap pool, very likely the city’s highest pool for an individual residence. The 6,700-square-foot loft-style space has … Read more
List Price: $3,700,000 The Property: A lovely brick Prairie-style mansion that faces Lake Michigan across a quiet park, this 13-room house with numerous front windows seems designed to bask in the morning sun as it rises over the water. The house was built in 1909, designed by the Prairie architects Tallmadge and Watson. (Thomas Eddy … Read more
Three real-estate agents provide Deal Estate with their assessments of a spacious downtown condo
Three proposed residential developments in three different parts of the city have been put into slowdown mode in recent weeks, all thanks to new aldermen elected in the spring. Aside from the fact that two of the projects have prolific architect Lucien Lagrange attached, there are no connections among the players on the three projects … Read more
List Price: $2,500,000 Sale Price: $2,466,700 The Property: Once one of Wicker Park’s grandest mansions, this enormous Second Empire-style home from 1879 was divided into apartments early in the 20th Century and stayed that way until now. A buyer, not yet identified by the seller or public records, made a $2.46 million deal with seller … Read more
List Price: $2,150,000 The Property: Elegant in its spareness, this five-bedroom in Glencoe is a quintessential mid-century modernist home in mint condition. Designed by the great Chicago architects Keck & Keck in 1960 for a member of the Florsheim family, the house has all the Kecks’ characteristic simplicity and embrace of its natural setting. Distinguished … Read more
Four Chicago suburbs got the nod from Money magazine on its 2007 list of Best Places to Live in the U.S., released on Monday, and while they’re all perfectly lovely places to live, the choices show the editors’ fondness for quiet, outlying bedroom communities. Which might be precisely what Money‘s readers prefer; after all, they’re … Read more
