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The City’s Department of Housing and Economic Development has put the John Raber House, a Chicago landmark, up for bid. The home, at 5760 S Lafayette in the Washington Park neighborhood, is on a 75 x 100 foot lot, all that remains of its original six-acre plot. The Italianate home pre-dates the great Chicago fire ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 16, 2013
The 6-flat has long been one of Chicago’s most popular housing types – so popular, in fact, that you can find very few in lakefront neighborhoods that haven’t been converted to condominiums. One of the densest concentrations of architecturally-interesting 6-flats can be found in the Sheridan Park neighborhood in Uptown. Sheridan Park is home to ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 22, 2013
Armour Square is one of Chicago’s 77 community areas. The Chinatown neighborhood occupies the northern part of Armour Square. US Cellular Field and the CHA’s Wentworth Gardens fill out the southern stretch of Armour Square. The neighborhood is also home to Armour Square Park, which was known variously as Park No. 3 and Armour Square, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 5, 2012
From the air, the Prairie District appears to be anything but tranquil. It’s ringed by modern high-rise condos and apartments, and bordered on the east by railroad tracks, Soldier Field, McCormick Place and Lake Shore Drive. Take a walk around the Prairie District on a sunny summer day. The density largely evaporates into residential tranquility, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 26, 2012
If you’re looking for modern architecture in a new home, the DePaul – Sheffield neighborhood isn’t the place to look for it. Virtually all of the new construction is relentlessly contextual, taking its cues from its late 19th century neighbors. That appears to be the case for the two new 6-bedroom, 5 ½ bath homes ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 20, 2012
The Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side is home to one of the city’s most beautiful parks. Columbus Park was conceived 100 years ago, and landscape architect Jens Jensen began its design on a 150-acre parcel in 1915. The park has had its ups and downs over the years, including the loss of acreage for ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 19, 2012
The heated controversy over the preservation of Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Streeterville is near an endgame following yesterday’s decision by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. We have not, until now, written a word about the dispute over the building’s future. The reasons are simple: our focus is on residential projects; every other media ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 2, 2012
The documents prepared to nominate properties or districts for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places are often wonderfully entertaining reads. It’s a pity that so very few of them are available online. The following quotes are taken from the submission for the Belden Stratford, 2300 N Lincoln Park West, pictured above. The document ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 27, 2012
Randolph Tower, 188 W Randolph St, is nearing completion of its conversion from office to residential use, with occupancy expected in the first quarter of 2012. The 45-story Gothic Revival building, completed in 1929, has terra cotta ornamentation that increases in intensity as your eye travels up the building’s façade. A slender 17-story tower rises ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 28, 2011
Trib Local is reporting on the potential landmarking of a 1920′s villa in the Spanish Town neighborhood of Park Ridge. Spanish Town? Who knew? This one may merit the real estate cliché of “the best kept secret in town.”
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 8, 2011
Don’t reach for your checkbook just yet – that’s apparently only the daily rent for one of Chicago’s grandest homes, according to an article in Crain’s Chicago Business. We wrote about the home, at 503 W Wrightwood Ave, in Lincoln Park, when it first came on the market last November. The asking price is still ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 6, 2011
Architecture critic Lynn Becker reports that the landmark Three Arts Club will not be converted to a columbarium, but that the developers still consider that concept viable. What other sites would be appropriate? Anyone plugging for the Chicago Ex-Spire?
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 28, 2009
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