5/28/10
Buyers are coming around on a new-construction six-flat at 3500 W Irving Park Rd on the Irving Park / Albany Park border, where the...
5/24/10
If the $10,000-a-month price tag for a South Loop rental left you gobsmacked, you’re not alone. I see those rates in the Gold Coast...
5/10/10
Maureen Mohling, one of our local correspondents for Winnetka, has a flair for finding the right word or phrase to summarize a complex topic....
4/29/10
The Henry P. Glass house in Northfield is, by some accounts, the first passive solar house in America. Glass was trained as an architect...
4/28/10
“Approaching” or “looming” aren’t sufficient anymore — the deadline for the federal home buyer tax credits is all but here, and that has a...
4/26/10
Ernest Alton “Tony” Grunsfeld III has designed dozens of homes along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan. Most are in the distinctively modern idiom exhibited...
3/19/10
The size and pace of price reductions among 1400 Lake Shore Drive‘s resales haven’t made things any easier for RDM Development, which still has about...
3/5/10
One of the most distinctive living spaces at Mallinckrodt in the Park is a converted chapel that maintains its old pillars, archways, and high...
3/4/10
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...
3/3/10
The old Mallinckrodt College building at 1041 Ridge Rd has been a fixture in Wilmette and the North Shore for almost a century. The...
1/12/10
Almost all of the condos still for sale at The Enterprise Companies‘ 1600 Museum Park, 1629 S Prairie Ave in the South Loop, saw...
1/10/10
“Musical Chairs” was the name of the game this week. For all of you industry trainspotters out there, here are a couple news nuggets...
1/8/10
CondoShark slipped into Diversey Harbor the other day with plans to grab a bite at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Before he got there, however,...
12/31/09
Here are a few of the most-viewed videos added to the YoChicago YouTube channel over the past year. A city within a city: Lakeshore...
12/29/09
I guess Museum Park Place South isn’t so quiet after all. Since October, 61 condos have closed at the tower, located at 1901 S...
12/17/09
After reading yesterday’s post about Jameson Real Estate‘s new marketing efforts at 1400 Lake Shore Drive, Coldwell Banker agent Matt Garrison e-mailed me some...
12/16/09
The Museum Park sales staff notified me this afternoon that a few homes closed last week at One Museum Park West, 1201 S Prairie...
12/2/09
Our friend Bob Darrow has noticed ads from both Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and @properties declaring their superiority in the Chicago market. This morning...
11/4/09
Another stop I made in my West Loop open house tour yesterday was at 700 W Van Buren St, Unit #1102. The listing agent,...
11/4/09
Earlier this week, Clarence Thompson of Coldwell Banker took me around Bronzeville in Chicago’s South Side, with a short visit to a street in...