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Back in April of 2009 we rode the construction elevator to the 71st floor of Legacy at Millennium Park with Mesa Development‘s Jim Hanson. “Legacy is all about the views,” said Hanson, and the views, as you can see in the above shots by Michael Kardas, were stunning. The sales pace was also stunning ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 11, 2013
Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin recently visited 600 North Fairbanks in Streeterville for a tour of a 40th floor southwest corner condo. The unit is scheduled to hit the market shortly, and will reportedly be listed at $1,575,000 with Prudential Rubloff’s Francesca Rose. Rodkin toured the unit in the evening, and the night views of the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 20, 2013
Listening to Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin walk through a 2-flat at 1119 W Schubert, you might conclude that buying it as-is and living with 1990s-vintage décor would be akin to living in North Korea. Rodkin notes the home shape’s similarity to a milk carton, and suggests that some of its contents have expired. He shudders ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 23, 2013
The modern home tour showcases the interiors and exteriors of seven Chicago homes and one each in Inverness and Hinsdale. The homes will be open this Saturday, June 23, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 on the day of the tour. A promotional code available at Modern Chicago ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 19, 2012
I stopped by the Ranch Triangle neighborhood in Lincoln Park on Wednesday to photograph 1703 N Dayton in preparation for a blog post. The home is currently listed for sale at $4.5 million. We’d previously written about the site three years ago when it was in foreclosure, along with other properties by developer Seth Harris. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 1, 2012
Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin’s most recent video tour focuses on a two-story penthouse on the Chicago River. The home boasts dramatic views from its sprawling outdoor terraces. The penthouse, which is currently on the market for $3.35 million, was acquired a little over a year ago by a retired Microsoft executive for $2.85 million. We ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 30, 2012
The latest Deal Estate column video features Dennis Rodkin’s take on a South Loop loft that we visited last December. We focused on the loft’s character while Rodkin was taken with the amount of light that enters it. Dennis’ video tours have previously followed YoChicago to a David Adler home in Lake Forest, a new ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 19, 2012
Chicago Magazine’s April issue hits the stands this week, and one of its features is a series of charts on how home values have performed between 2006 and 2011 in Chicago’s neighborhoods and suburbs. Only one suburb, according to data supplied to Chicago Magazine by the local MLS, saw an increase in home values between ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 15, 2012
Dennis Rodkin recently visited a Victorian home on the 2000 block of Seminary, in Lincoln Park‘s DePaul neighborhood, and recounted some of its early and more recent history: 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. The ornate ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 3, 2012
It doesn’t happen often, but on occasion Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin does a video tour of home that I’ve already shot video at. Rodkin’s tour of a newly-built home at 1529 W Wolfram was just posted online. It’s embedded above, and you can read more about the home at his Deal Estate column. The home ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 12, 2012
Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin takes you inside the largest unit at the Playboy Mansion, 1340 N State Pkwy, in the above video. The 7,874 square foot 4-bedroom, 5-bath Gold Coast condo is listed for sale at $5.8M. Head over to Deal Estate for more of the details. You can tour another unit in the building ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 15, 2011
In Steve McQueen’s The Hunter there’s a famous scene where a car hurtles off Marina City’s parking ramp into the Chicago River. Dennis Rodkin’s video tour, above, of three units combined into one at Marina City, includes a clip from the film. Allstate restaged the car-into-the-river scene for a 2006 commercial. When I see either ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 28, 2011
At the opening of his video tour of an Armour Square / Chinatown loft Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin noted that, on the very cloudy day of his visit “you can’t see all the details of the view this condo has …” The condo has, according to Rodkin, a “great location” with “the city right there ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 27, 2011
Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin is changing the format of his informative video tours. Going forward you’ll be seeing mostly or exclusively Rodkin in the videos, unaccompanied by the real estate agents and owners who’ve been a prominent part of his previous tours. Rodkin’s most recent video, with the property owner, showcases a unit at the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 16, 2011
Time Magazine aptly referred to artist and artisan Edgar Miller‘s work as the “handmade home.” When Unit 15 at Old Town‘s Carl Street Studios, 155 W Burton Pl, first came on the market several months ago we wrote that the world of Edgar Miller is one that “some find overwhelmingly attractive – and makes others ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 6, 2011
Real estate agents have been slow to understand the appeal of video to home buyers and sellers. One of our clients, Coldwell Banker’s Apostal Group, has taken the time to offer buyers the unusual experience of two different video takes on the same unit, a 4-bedroom, 3-bath loft at 850 W Adams in the West ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 10, 2011
You’ve probably experienced the dramatic spaces enabled by bowstring truss construction in a restaurant, garage or other commercial space. The trusses create large, open, maximally flexible space uninterrupted by columns or load-bearing walls. I’ve seen only a very few single-family homes created within bowstring truss buildings (they rarely have zoning that permits it). The home ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 16, 2011
Earlier today Curbed Chicago reported on Dennis Rodkin’s Chicago Magazine report on the sale of Dan McLean’s RiverView penthouse. At $2.85M this strikes me as a great buy. I shot the above video on one of two tours of the penthouse, with different real estate agents. Part two of the video, with a walk around ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 14, 2011
If you enjoy exploring Chicago on video you won’t want to miss Dennis Rodkin’s neighborhood videos, based on his Chicago Magazine focus on the 20 best towns and neighborhoods in Chicagoland. In this video he walks the Beverly area with CLTV’s Rochelle Vayo Adkinson. Scroll down to the bottom of the Chicago Tribune’s Communities ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 6, 2011
Dennis Rodkin’s latest Deal Estate video is a must-see, both for the condo’s abundance of antique furnishings and for the lively commentary offered by its seller, Michele Vasarely. The 4,265 square-foot unit at the Michigan Avenue Lofts, 910 S Michigan Ave (formerly the Standard Oil Building), has been listed by Cara Buffa of Prudential Rubloff ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on January 20, 2011
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