4/11/11
Last month Curbed reported that the landmark Abbott House at 4605 N Hermitage Ave in Uptown had closed for $1.6 million. We recently picked...
4/4/11
Frances Archer’s blog continues to be a wonderful source of history and insight into Hollywood Park and adjacent neighborhoods on the Northwest Side. Today,...
4/1/11
If you listened to sports radio this morning, you know the Cubby Bear was packed with drunks by 8 a.m. Baseball has returned to...
2/4/11
By sheer coincidence I’ve received links to two wildly different depictions of old-school Albany Park in less than 12 hours. Between them, you can...
11/22/10
This is the 50th anniversary of the official, shiny-shovel groundbreaking ceremony for Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg’s iconic city-within-a-city on the Chicago River. To commemorate...
11/9/10
The owner of the 9,768-square-foot Francis J. Dewes mansion at 503 W Wrightwood Ave in Lincoln Park has listed the home for $9.9 million,...
11/8/10
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....
10/28/10
“The ‘Clybourn Corridor’ of the 1990s will be Grand Avenue.” – Developer Jack Berger, speaking to Charles Hayes of the Chicago Tribune in a...
10/19/10
Is this the oldest Chicago home currently on the market? It’s a Victorian single-family at 2029 N Seminary Ave that dates back to 1861,...
9/8/10
Crain’s Shia Kapos reports that car dealer Ed Napleton has purchased the Geneva / Belden Flats, a Lincoln Park condo complex attached to an...
8/25/10
Last week Frank Lloyd Wright’s old studio at 25 E Cedar St in the Gold Coast went on the market for $1.7 million. Wright...
8/12/10
It is a jungle of crumbling tenements, twisted shacks and filthy alleys. It is an open jail for men who are guilty of no...
6/7/10
The first place Joe Zekas and Francesca Rose profiled on their walk down Lake Shore Drive was the Drake Tower, one of the most...
5/21/10
Fred Scovell of Keller Williams Realty – West Loop included 16 great photos with his listing for the mansion at 2801 S Prairie Ave...
4/30/10
One of the many perks of buying a new home at Lake Park Crescent in North Kenwood-Oakland is being able to live in an...
4/15/10
The Habitat Company has been a pioneer in both the construction and management of affordable housing throughout Chicago. In this segment from our wide-ranging...
4/13/10
Although it’s currently perceived as a developer of luxury housing in prime locations, the reality is that many of The Habitat Company‘s locations were...
4/12/10
The Habitat Company has changed the face of Chicago. Over the past 30 years, Habitat has developed more than 17,000 residential units and currently...
4/7/10
You don’t see a lot of Chicago home sales make national headlines, but all sorts of news outlets are carrying stories this morning about...
4/1/10
Spring is finally here, which means we’ll be spending a lot more time outside on the afternoons and weekends in search of homes and...