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
Building’s address mirrors its “green” aesthetic
Historic auto show rooms reborn as distinctive condos
Two Providence developments enhance suburb’s rejuvenated downtown
Canary color helps propel house to suburb record
List Price: $3,550,000Sale Price: $3,400,000 The Property: Almost perfectly situated in tony Kenilworth, with prestigious public elementary and high schools within a few blocks’ walk and a picturesque park right across the street, this new 20-room home has the charm and hand-wrought details of an old-time house in the North Shore village, but a contemporary … Read more
List Price: $4,375,000 The Property: Not only is this elegant ten-room mansion situated in upscale Lake Forest, but it sits in the most prestigious part of town, a neighborhood known as VELF: Very East Lake Forest. But in 2005, when Dan and Wanda O’Rourke bought the place for $2.9 million, the house was showing its … Read more
List Price: $25 million Sale Price: $16 million On Tuesday, the developer Orren Pickell bought a princely Lake Bluff estate-a 24-room mansion on 21 acres-for $16 million. The estate’s sellers, Ron and Pat Friedman, had listed the place for sale almost six years ago at $25 million and held firm to their asking price all … Read more
