Tag: Wilmette
A major bargain on a prime Wilmette lot
There’s nothing extraordinary about the to-be-built 4-bedroom, 4 ½ bath home at $1,295,000 on a 50 x 150 lot at 1327 Washington Ave in Wilmette. A [...]
Long-listed West Wilmette homes try the rental approach
Several weeks ago Joe Zekas wrote about a home at 2411 Thornwood Ave in West Wilmette that's been on the market for nearly five years.
The home [...]
In East Wilmette, a 10-year old traditional home
Five years ago homes like the one in this video easily sold for $1.8M and above in East Wilmette.
Today, the owner-agent has priced this home a [...]
The slowest-selling new home in Wilmette
Today’s “new listings” include 2411 Thornwood Ave in Wilmette, a 5-bedroom, 5 ½ bath, 4,300 square foot home. It’s around the corner from the soug [...]
3 of top 10 North Shore home sales found in Wilmette
North Shore Views just reported the 10 highest-priced sales on the North Shore during 2010. Three of them, surprisingly, were in Wilmette.
Not [...]
Condo open house event on the lake in Wilmette
Seven of the 74 units at 1420 Sheridan in Wilmette are currently on the market, and six of them will be open for viewing from noon to 2 on Sunday, [...]
Coldwell Banker leads Wilmette, Winnetka and Kenilworth sales in 2010
Coldwell Banker had the largest number of closed home sales during calendar year 2010 in Wilmette, Winnetka and Kenilworth.
In Wilmette, where [...]
A year later, $200K less in Wilmette
The 5-bedroom, 4 ½ bath, 2-car garage home on a corner lot at 1418 Elmwood Ave in Wilmette had only been on the market for 5 days when I visited a [...]
North Shore new construction – a new rule of thirds?
During most of 2006 I was actively tracking the status of every new construction home on Chicago’s North Shore.
In May of 2006 developer Cypre [...]
The lowest-priced rental home in East Wilmette
The past 7 days have seen a 40% jump in the number of MLS rental offerings in Wilmette – from 15 to 21.
One of them stands out: a 5-bedroom, ba [...]
The fast food desertification of the North Shore
The concept of a “food desert” (PDF) is familiar to many West and South Siders in Chicago, but not everyone recognizes that most of Chicago’s Nort [...]
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 [...]
A 6-bedroom, 3-bath bungalow on an East Wilmette cul-de-sac
Bungalows are as common as hyper-cute 4-year olds in Wilmette, so it wasn’t the home style that drew me to an open house several blocks from the Lin [...]
Mallinckrodt's "active-adult" community makes room for the whippersnappers
You move to Mallinckrodt on the Park thinking you'll find peace and quiet among fellow gray-hairs, and the next thing you know, all these youngsters [...]
What happened to that looming North Shore foreclosure wave?
Late last year real estate agents were sounding alarms about a pending tsunami of foreclosures on the North Shore. It doesn't appear to be happening [...]
Introducing Wilmette's Kenilworth Gardens
Kenilworth Gardens is the area bounded on the east by Ridge, on the south (approximately) by Lake, on the north by the Indian Hill Club, and on the [...]
A fabulous master suite in Wilmette
Wilmette's Indian Hill Estates is a 170-acre subdivision planned by architect Philip Maher in the 1920s. The area was mostly built in the 1950s and [...]
Living inside the Mallinckrodt College chapel
One of the most distinctive living spaces at Mallinckrodt in the Park is a converted chapel that maintains its old pillars, archways, and high ceili [...]
A Mallinckrodt condo with the feel of a home
The model condo at Wilmette's Mallinckrodt in the Park senior living development is a two-bedroom unit with 1,900 square feet. As Joe Zekas notes mo [...]
From college to condos: A trip to Mallinckrodt in the Park in Wilmette
The old Mallinckrodt College building at 1041 Ridge Rd has been a fixture in Wilmette and the North Shore for almost a century. The 180,000 square-f [...]