Category: Single-family homes
A tree falls in Lincoln Park
Nature has taken another hit in its epic battle with man. Today the Chicago Tribune reports on the 1900 block of Burling Street in Lincoln Park, whi [...]
River North's very own starter castles
River North is a veritable smorgasbord of starter castles these days, as we discovered during our recent sojourn down the 400 and 500 blocks of Super [...]
Wicker Park single-family home stays on a human scale
We often point out super-sized single-family homes, so we were happy to spot a new four-bedroom house, located at 1502 W Cortez St in Wicker Park, t [...]
Traditional and contemporary side-by-side in Lincoln Park
Speaking of architectural juxtapositions, we spotted Garber Properties' ultra-traditional single-family home next to this ultra-modern building on t [...]
Dirty house probably cost sellers thousands of dollars
The owners of a home in suburban Chicago have dropped their asking price by $33,000 in part because the home is so damn dirty that it's putting off bu [...]
Lake View house made in America and proud of it
In addition to having $1.45 million, potential buyers of the new five-bedroom single-family home at 1702 W Melrose St, which is listed by Sussex & [...]
Tour the emperor of Park Ridge's palace
When we explored the custom homebuilding process, we learned all about how homebuyers can express themselves through the design of their house. S [...]
Suburban single-family home has 70-acre yard
In response to our post on a super-sized Lake View house going for just less than $3 million, Yo reader anon commented, "For that kind of money, I w [...]
Lake View single-family home towers above neighbors
We've seen super-sized single-family homes all over the city, but we still did a double take when we first saw this new single-family whopper at 361 [...]
We like to watch: Lake View single-family deep in the red
On the outside, it's a mild-mannered stone single-family done up in unassuming earth tones, but inside, this Lake View house is awash in deep reds [...]
George M Harvey House – arson, neglect or what?
Did someone torch this Louis Sullivan-designed home at 600 W Stratford Place on Saturday afternoon? A demolition crew was scoping out the three-story [...]
Bucktown single-family full of glass, water, zen
Last week we told you about a Lincolnshire condo development that had an impressive-sounding "infinity terrace," but that's pretty easily trumped b [...]
CBI Custom Homes builds $3.9 million Tudor in Glencoe
I've been trying to decide how to spend my $3.9 million bonus from YoChicago, and I'm thinking maybe CBI Custom Homes' brick, stone and stucco Engli [...]
Which comes first, the teardown or the sign?
We couldn't help but snicker at the huge Sussex & Reilly sign placed in front of the rinky-dink wooden single-family home at 1654 N Campbell Ave. T [...]
California Estates attractive, but no works of art
This spring we dished about the "luminiferous homes" headed for Humboldt Park and lamented the fact that none of the houses' renderings seemed to [...]
KB Home introduces "single-family condominium community" in Inverness
In the winter issue of New Homes Magazine, Dan Schuyler takes a ride out to the northwest suburb of Inverness to witness in its natural habitat a rare [...]
Which Chicago neighborhoods had the liveliest Halloween?
Which Chicago neighborhoods are attracting the most young families? Can we take Halloween as a rough gauge? Yo's truly lives in Bucktown and was a l [...]
Want to sell your home during the frigid Chicago winter? Hang a sexy oil painting
We've talked a lot this week about a possible slowdown in the Chicago housing market, but what about the effect that winter has on the market? Winter [...]
Lincoln Park manse gives new meaning to "art house"
We don't usually like to peep more than once a day, but when we saw this ultra-contemporary single-family home in Lincoln Park, our voyeuristic urge [...]
North Shore dream houses take time, patience, money
To build or not to build, that was the question facing 36-year-old Devin Mathews and his wife Gina as they moved their young family back to Chicago [...]