Dennis Rodkin
By Dennis Rodkin
THE COOLEST CUT: After developer slashes prices, buyers seek out stalled project Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
HIS TIME EXPIRED: The investment banker who oversaw the parking-meter deal makes a profit on his Howard Van Doren Shaw-designed home Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.8 million
The Property: In the late 1930s, the architect David Adler designed a pair of servants’ cottages that flanked the back entrance to the Lake Forest estate of Lola Armour. He used nearly as much detail on the cottages as he had on the huge main house, nearly a quarter of a mile away... Read more
The Property: In the late 1930s, the architect David Adler designed a pair of servants’ cottages that flanked the back entrance to the Lake Forest estate of Lola Armour. He used nearly as much detail on the cottages as he had on the huge main house, nearly a quarter of a mile away... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Chicago’s Latino Policy Forum has discerned a painful irony: Latino neighborhoods and suburbs have a heavy concentration of both over-crowded housing units and empty foreclosures. “We have these two phenomena happening concurrently,” said Juliana Gonzalez-Crussi, the forum’s policy and housing analyst, when we talked on Monday... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.199 million
Sale Price: $1.115 million
The Property: On February 9, the last of 20 condos at 30 West Erie was sold, more than five years after construction and sales began... Read more
Sale Price: $1.115 million
The Property: On February 9, the last of 20 condos at 30 West Erie was sold, more than five years after construction and sales began... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price (8th floor): $375,000
List Price (7th floor): $300,000
The Properties: Even among the many stately dowagers that surround it, 3314 North Lake Shore Drive stands out with its Beaux Arts façade, which features paired columns of bay windows that capture views out over Belmont Harbor... Read more
List Price (7th floor): $300,000
The Properties: Even among the many stately dowagers that surround it, 3314 North Lake Shore Drive stands out with its Beaux Arts façade, which features paired columns of bay windows that capture views out over Belmont Harbor... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
The Tinley Park mansion that the former NBA star Antoine Walker lost in foreclosure when he declared bankruptcy in 2010 was left in sorry condition. Water stood waist-deep in the basement, murky goo filled the indoor pool, and at least 32 light fixtures were gone. But Jim McClelland Jr. and Eric Workman saw an opportunity... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.175 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: In 2010, this quirky house built on three lots in Uptown in 1978 was on the verge of getting the interior updating it badly needed... Read more
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: In 2010, this quirky house built on three lots in Uptown in 1978 was on the verge of getting the interior updating it badly needed... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,574,900
The Property: Just off the thriving Armitage Avenue shopping strip, on a Lincoln Park street filled with homes from different eras, stands a house that watched them all arrive. Built in 1861 as the farmhouse for a truck farm that delivered its produce into Chicago, the house still has several of its original elements... Read more
The Property: Just off the thriving Armitage Avenue shopping strip, on a Lincoln Park street filled with homes from different eras, stands a house that watched them all arrive. Built in 1861 as the farmhouse for a truck farm that delivered its produce into Chicago, the house still has several of its original elements... Read more