This year’s roundup of the highest prices paid for homes in the metropolitan area shows that the Gold Coast deserves its name Photography: Chris Guillen WinnetkaSale Price: $8.1 million In 1832, the chief economic enterprise in the burgeoning settlement of Chicago was John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company. Nearly 175 years later, the Near North … Read more
List Price: $3.428 million Sale Price: $2.75 million The Property: This 9,400-square-foot house is one of several newcomers on a street in southeast Hinsdale. It has four levels, including the basement, all served by an elevator. "You can stand on the top floor and look all the way to the lowest level as the staircase … Read more
Amid the rolling hills of southwestern Michigan, a classic Cape Cod provides a refuge for two city dwellers
List price: $2.195 million The Property: This slender townhouse, built in 1883, stands on one of the Gold Coast’s loveliest streets, punctuated on its east end with a view of Lake Michigan across Lake Shore Drive. The beautifully renovated house-owned by Frank James, an executive at Bear Sterns, and his wife, Sandy-is just 16 feet … Read more
Three sales agents provide Deal Estate with their assessments of a KaneCounty house.
Shanghai is building fast. Now its leaders have given themselves a sharp deadline—the 2010 World Expo—to make a distinctive architectural mark to go along with a large concrete footprint. Among the projects of interest are three by major Chicago firms
An architect’s aerie, a Victorian beauty, and the long good buy.
New condos for Hyde Park, West Chicago, and a onetime Chess Records office
After languishing for decades as a bleak landscape of warehouses and rail yards, Chicago’s South Loop is afire. Condo sales are booming, big-box stores are blossoming, and chic restaurants are laying out the welcome mat. Add the lakefront, the Museum Campus, and a rich history to the mix, and is it any wonder the South Loop is not just the city’s but the country’s hottest neighborhood?
List Price: $4.55 millionSale Price: $4.55 million The Property: About 12 years ago, this ten-room condo comprised half the palatial spread bought by Oprah Winfrey, though, by most accounts, the TV star never moved in. Today, this 4,700-square-foot space on the seventh floor of 219 East Lake Shore Drive-one of only eight buildings along this … Read more
