List Price: $650,000 The Property: This two-bedroom condo in one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s revolutionary steel and glass towers on Lake Shore Drive turns out to be the very apartment in which the great architect himself planned to live. Known as the “Glass Houses,” the pair of buildings at 860 and 880 North … Read more
The growing number of foreclosures has already wiped out several mortgage companies and many families’ financial footholds. Now some observers say it could turn back the clock in some inner-city neighborhoods and moderate-income suburbs that had shown improvement over the past decade. Although foreclosures are occurring at every income level, they tend to be isolated … Read more
List Price: $1,199,000 Sale Price: $1,070,000 The Property: This handsome brick Mediterranean-style house was the home of Joseph Galvin, who with his brother, Paul, founded the radio company that became the technology giant Motorola. The house was built in the late 1920s, according to James Collins, the agent for the house’s sellers, Sam and Kathleen … Read more
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
