Five Sears Kit Homes For Sale
Illinois is second only to Ohio for the most Sears ready-to-assemble kit homes. These customizable homes were affordable to many immigrant and minority workers.
Illinois is second only to Ohio for the most Sears ready-to-assemble kit homes. These customizable homes were affordable to many immigrant and minority workers.
The architect’s tweaks to an Italianate villa in Lake Forest are worth a look.
Choose from an Edward Dart estate, an English manor home by the architect behind the original Playboy mansion, and a sprawling ranch from Frank Lloyd Wright’s son Lloyd Wright.
A Printers Row penthouse with an impressive vaulted skylight was home to an original publisher of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Named for the locally sourced Bedford limestone that makes up their facades, they can be found all over the city, in a variety of forms—from condos in multi-unit buildings to a beautifully preseverved home in a Gold Coast development built by Potter Palmer near his lakefront castle.
Rankings based on 2020 residential sales in the six-county metro area
Rankings based on 2020 residential sales in the six-county metro area
You can own a piece of the suburbs’ rich history, like one of “tomorrow’s homes,” a beautifully preserved Victorian, or a “bootleg” Prairie Style house that’s (probably) by Frank Lloyd Wright’s draftsman.
Get an indoor pool in a swinging Brutalist house, a cabin with a horse barn by a forest preserve for under $500,000, or a midcentury modern woodland estate.