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No North Shore rental deal of the week
I've just finished scouring the new rental listings on the North Shore for bargains to bring to your attention. I couldn't find any.
Perhaps th [...]
Lakeview East apartments east of Broadway
Planned Property , one of our sponsors, has 3 buildings with renovated apartments east of Broadway on Melrose, in Lakeview East. The buildings are [...]
A day of remembrance
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country lov'd,
And mercy more than life.
O beautiful for patrio [...]
The scene at Auburn Gresham’s 79th Street Renaissance Festival
Six years ago, when Carlos Nelson (video) first talked about this event the reaction he heard was "A street festival on 79th Street? You must be c [...]
Open house – a sunny new East Village 5-bedroom
This 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 1848 W Erie St in Chicago's East Village neighborhood had barely been completed when I arrived for this video sho [...]
One Museum Park West less than one-quarter closed
In March we wondered whether spring would bring a thaw to sales at One Museum Park, and speculated that the west tower was less than 50% sold.
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Legal fees impact Marina City’s assessments
One of the wild card expenses associated with living in a condo development is legal fees, and foreclosure activity in recent years has often resu [...]
Is that 3-months free rent deal in Evanston for real?
Or is it just a hustle to grab your attention?
415 Premier Apartments, formerly known as Skyline at Evanston, sits on the north side of Howard [...]
Winnetka manse tries $9 million price increase
The last time we wrote about Le Grand Reve, 68 Locust Rd in Winnetka, the price had just been reduced from $28 million to $23 million.
It’s [...]
Chicago metro-area foreclosure rate rises in June
Foreclosure rates in Chicago-Joliet-Naperville have increased for the month of June over the same period last year, according to CoreLogic.
Accordi [...]
Price cuts on new West Bucktown single-families
A new 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 1701 N Artesian in West Bucktown that came on the market in early June at $699,900 has just been reduced to $644 [...]
Sheridan Park (mostly) open house gallery
Uptown Update has a list of 13 condos that are part of a coordinated open house effort this coming Sunday, September 11. The units range in size f [...]
A pigeon a day keeps a peregrine’s hunger away
I captured a peregrine falcon taking flight this morning from the Carbide & Carbon Building, now the Hard Rock Hotel, on Michigan Ave.
Chicago [...]
Where Winnetkans let it all hang out
If you love dirty laundry, you’ll definitely want to spend some time poking around the Winnetka Home Owners Association site. It’s a venue where t [...]
New and notable rental, high in Harbor Point
A 2,440 square foot, 2-bedroom, 3 ½ bath unit high up in Harbor Point that has been available for sale just came on the market as a rental, for $4 [...]
Chicago is losing its best real estate blogger
When Lockhart Steele told me he was moving forward with his twice-postponed Curbed Chicago launch I suggested he lock on to Mark Boyer, a former Y [...]
A brief look at Milwaukee’s Calatrava
I was in Milwaukee earlier today, visiting the Lake Bluff Condominiums. On my way out of town I stopped for a brief look at Santiago Calatrava's Q [...]
Bank-owned properties head to a blow-out auction
On September 17 Rick Levin & Associates will be auctioning a variety of (mostly) bank-owned properties subject to minimum bids as low as 5% of a p [...]
Tour a new single-family home in Old Irving
New construction in the mid-$700s in Chicago's Old Irving neighborhood has been a scarce item, and scarcer still in a walk-to-transit location.
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A loose history of Evanston
We've previously noted the wide variance among Evanston census tracts in private school attendance among elementary school age children.
In Ce [...]