Do the Cubs have Prince Albert in the can? How about his younger Brewers counterpart? Probably not, but speculating on bombshell Cubs free-agent signings might be the most entertainment the Epstein offseason gives us. Read more
A century-old butter factory-turned-plumbing warehouse, converted into a single-family home with a spacious deck and lawn in 2005, sells for $915,000 in a sub-neighborhood of Edgewater. Read more
List Price: $535,000 The Property: Would you like a slice of pie? How about three? This Marina City condo combines three of the buildings’ famously pie-shape studio apartments into a single two-bedroom, two-bath home. And it comes with a delicious topping: three of the distinctive semi-circular balconies, which together provide a crescent of views of the downtown skyline, as well as the Chicago River and its historic bridges... Read more
Black Wednesday is to bars what Sweetest Day is to Hallmark: a pure marketing maneuver. What once was a night for city transplants to journey back home to their families—and for everyone else, a chance to hit the grocery store for last-minute cans of cranberry goo—has become a night to party hard and kick off the holidays with a beer-and-a-shot bar special because it’s Black Wednesday! (Whatever that means)... Read more
List Price: $4 million The Property: Although it’s one of the biggest and most eye-catching homes on a Lincoln Park street lined with landmarks, there is very little known about the origins of today’s house. That’s surprising, because someone in the early 1890s did a fine job of creating a distinctive home with a broad façade of rough-hewn stone capped by a turret and a mansard roof... Read more
