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Renovated Astor Street District row house on the market (again)
This Potter Palmer-built row house at 1302 N Ritchie Ct in the Gold Coast's Astor Street District is no stranger to the modern market. According to re [...]
Jeff Baird: Humboldt hit hard by recession
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing data [...]
A new look for Lincoln Park Hospital
It's been almost a year since Michael Supera and Richard Zisook announced their plans to convert and expand the old Lincoln Park Hospital into a mix [...]
Introducing the DK Home Team
Over time, Frank DeNovi's business has evolved considerably, to the point that he now orchestrates a team of trained office and field employees who [...]
No Man’s Land in Wilmette
The northernmost stretch of Wilmette was once known as No Man’s Land, since it was unincorporated, and not part of Wilmette.
No Man’s Land develope [...]
In other news – good reads from the feed
Not every story we add to our Chicago Real Estate News feed warrants "top story" status or a "quote of the day" post, but that doesn't make it any les [...]
Kardas puts on an air show
Our ace photographer Michael Kardas is currently at the VA hospital for a knee replacement. His take on it is “a new knee, a new me.” Or maybe he [...]
Yo in review: October 30 – November 6
When times go bad in Lake Forest
A Halloween dog parade at K Station
Buy a car or three homes in Ford Heights?
An upbeat, happy home in Winnetka [...]
Know your limits: Identifying the boundaries for Chicago’s top neighborhood elementary
Last week the Sun-Times published its 2010 report cards for public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Chicago area. The top seven public el [...]
Rumor mill: New plans for Peshtigo site?
I'm not big on Realtor society gossip and luncheon recaps, so I normally skip over Agent X's "Agent About Town" writeups in Chicago Agent Magazine. Th [...]
Curbed rounds up reax to Reese razing
We've never spent much time on the Michael Reese Hospital issue, but reports of the main building's imminent demolition have Chicagoans buzzing.
Ev [...]
A wide, light-filled Lincoln Park rowhouse
In the 1990s MCL Companies transformed the former site of Augustana Hospital into The Pointe, one of Lincoln Park's signature developments. The 150 [...]
Rent or buy a Pumpkin’s pad
Today is the greatest...time to buy! Despite all his rage, Billy Corgan's home is still...oh, forget it.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has been tr [...]
Would landmark status help Dubin’s Lofts at Bridgeport Place?
Preservationists often use landmarking as a way to protect buildings from demolition or intrusive development, but here's a case of a developer push [...]
Floor plans in focus: A $2.2 million Benton Place Parkhome with access to Aqua’s amenities
One of the perks of owning a Benton Place Parkhome at Lakeshore East is having access to the Shore Club, the two-story, 115,000 square-foot amenitie [...]
Choice cuts: $6,000 to $310,000 off original prices at Walton on the Park
Hat tip to CribChatter for discovering a new round of price cuts at Walton on the Park, 2 W Delaware Pl.
The new prices, rolled out yesterday, are an [...]
Decision on Lexington Park Condominiums to be made in early 2011
Lexington Park Condominiums will stay empty through the beginning of the new year, as owner ST Residential comes to a decision on whether to market th [...]
From the vault: George Thrush on pioneering neighborhoods
One of the most-viewed videos on the YoChicago YouTube Channel in early November 2007 was this segment of a longer interview with George Thrush, who [...]
Apartment rental bedbugs infest Glenview
Some of you may be familiar wth my long-standing practice of referring to apartment rental services as maggots.
I’ve decided that reference is unfa [...]
Quote of the day: Joining the Rentership Society
In the American mind, renters are regarded as an unsavory lot, willful dissidents from the American dream. They do things like put cars up on cinder b [...]