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Dennis Rodkin
A Sears House Grows Up, in Sauganash
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $499,900
The Property: Fourteen years ago, Jim and Lisa Whittington bought a tiny Sears Catalog house built in the 1920s in the leafy, charming Sauganash neighborhood on the city’s far northwest side. Although it was originally a two-bedroom house with... Read more
Two Derelict Glencoe Houses Face Different Fates
By Dennis Rodkin
Among the architectural treasures of Glencoe are two small collections of homes designed by eminent 20th-century architects—and each of those neighborhoods has a derelict house, a victim of the recent housing bust.
Ravine Bluffs is a cluster of six homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1910s. The derelict house there now has a savior, a Chicago architect who... Read more
An Uptown Genre-Bender
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.95 million
The Property: A cocktail of genres, this house has a harsh 1970s exterior, an interior rich in Victorian ornamentation, and an atrium that could have been borrowed from a Spanish-style home. And while distinctly urban, the place has a big yard worthy of a residence in the suburbs. Read more