Category: Resales
Fantastical facades: is that a bay, or you just happy to see me?
The outside of this three-bedroom 3.5-bath cottage might look a tad unbalanced, what with the enormous ivory bay jutting out from the otherwise unrema [...]
How low can you go? Chicago homes for under $100,000
How can anyone afford to buy in the city? It's a question we hear a lot, and today, Yo supplies a few answers, mostly to the far north and far south - [...]
We like to watch: the ultimate coach house
Luxurious accommodation and amenities might not come to mind when you think of coach houses, those dowdy satellite residences eclipsed in the shadows [...]
More is less for Uptown condo
Our friends on the development team for this building at 4114 N Kenmore Ave would have done well with a "less is more" approach when they designed t [...]
Hidden fireplace, funky cornice and other treasures in Pine Grove home
The top-floor cornice at 2735 N Pine Grove Ave caught our eye, but we quickly found out that the Victorian stylings are only part of the building's [...]
1550 North State: old-school starchitecture
We posted an item earlier this week about some homebuyers' tendency to talk of themselves as living "in a Helmut Jahn," or a Mies, or whichever starch [...]
Houses in Humboldt Park and proud of it
The Chicago Public Library's Community Collection tells us, "...Humboldt Park has remained a neighborhood of persons 'passing through,' being an area [...]
Lincoln Park luxury home for auction
If you're in the market for an ultra-luxury single-family home, Sheldon Good & Company will accept sealed bids for 1909 N Mohawk St until May 16. The [...]
Chicago buildings battle for weakest name
Flipping through Neil Harris' Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury, we noticed that some buildings in the City of Big Shoulders have migh [...]
Who's afraid of Humboldt Park?
Check out this remodeled two-bedroom condo (you might have to log in at the Koenig & Strey site for the link to work): hardwood floors, full complemen [...]
Battle for snob appeal: Astor Street vs East Lake Shore
Home buyers who have $55,363 of wiggle room in the monthly budget might want to consider this $10.8 million single-family abode at 1524 N. Astor St (t [...]
860 N. Lake Shore: authentic Mies for $375,000
Last week we posted on the Park Tower Condos building, one of the many Mies imitators loitering around Chicago. Don't get us wrong; there's absolutely [...]
El Lago: another of Edgewater's architectural Bad News Bears
One might expect to find a building named "El Lago" painted with pastels or deep marine-green -- something breezy, at any rate. But our Edgewater "El [...]
Granville Tower: Sheridan Road's scrappiest high-rise
If high-rises were dogs, Granville Tower would be the three-legged SharPei you can't help but root for. Completed in 1965, the Seymour S. Goldstein- [...]