Tag: Video
A rare 4-bedroom townhome for rent in River North
The 400 block of Superior in River North is mansion row, and also home to the City Club townhomes with its beautifully landscaped parkways. It's a [...]
A $225K two-bedroom in Winnetka with an unstable foundation
Five years ago it would have been unthinkable to find a teardown candidate in Winnetka's sought-after Greeley School area for $225,000. That was b [...]
A drive through Elmhurst’s College View neighborhood
I was in Elmhurst yesterday, shooting video tours of three homes listed with Tom Makinney and Maria Gracik of Koenig & Strey's Gracik Makinney Gro [...]
Romanticizing Pullman, one of the nation’s great neighborhoods
The American Planning Association has select Chicago's Pullman neighborhood as one of its Great Places in America for 2011:
Pullman's timeless [...]
A well-crafted 6-bedroom in Elmhurst’s Crescent Park
Elmhurst’s Crescent Park neighborhood is bounded on the west by Poplar Ave, on the north by St Charles Rd, on the east by I-290 and on the south b [...]
A renovated 3-bedroom in a West Rogers Park high-rise
A West Rogers Park high-rise?
Winston Towers, in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, comprises 5 high-rise buildings in a park-like setti [...]
A video visit to Glen Ellyn and Naperville
As you know, we're always on the lookout for videos that showcase Chicago-area communities.
Some of the best I've seen can be found at the webs [...]
Live on Chicago’s highest residential floor
A penthouse unit on the 92nd floor of the John Hancock Center has been on the market for about 30 days, priced at $959,000. It's being sold as 1,7 [...]
Did those Woodlawn condos really sell that quickly?
The Renaissance on Kimbark, 6457 S Kimbark Ave, is Phase IV in a series of Woodlawn developments. According to sales agent Hasani Steele's website [...]
Price chops of over $800K on ParkView penthouse
In April of last year Unit 4701 at the ParkView Condominium, 505 N McClurg Ct in Streeterville, was listed at $1,681,500. It was reduced to $1.3M [...]
Deals of the day – the first LiveEvanston homes
The first LiveEvanston homes have just been listed in the MLS. If the pictures of these renovated homes are an accurate indication of their attrac [...]
No renaissance in sight at Beverly Ridge
Here's a tip you can take to the bank: when the alderman's wife is heading up sales for a new home development, the odds are high that the develop [...]
LiveEvanston program offers low money down rehabbed homes
Last year Evanston received an $18.15 million federal grant to acquire and rehab 100 units of foreclosed and abandoned properties in two census tr [...]
Jeanne Gang named a MacArthur Fellow
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang has been named one of twenty-two 2011 MacArthur Fellows, a distinction that comes with a no-strings attached grant o [...]
The scene at a West Loop broker’s open house
Broker's open houses are one of the key ways in which real estate brokers learn about new offerings. The key ingredient to hosting a successful op [...]
Share your bathroom with paying strangers through CLOO
A hat tip to Gizmodo for alerting me to CLOO', the latest venture in the sharing economy.
Here's how CLOO' works, per its Website:
CLOO' tur [...]
Wilmette, where East is East and West is West
When I first moved to Wilmette, back in the late 80s, my Jewish friends were intensely curious about what part of town I was moving to. East Wilme [...]
View the Lurie Garden with Piet Oudolf
Saturday, September 17, marks the first annual Lurie Garden Fall Festival and Plant Sale, from 10 to 3. Tours of the garden will be available alon [...]
A brief look at the Crescent Park neighborhood in Elmhurst
Yesterday I visited the Crescent Park subdivision in Elmhurst with Tom Makinney and Maria Gracik of Koenig & Strey's Gracik Makinney Group. We sho [...]
Rodkin going solo in home tour videos
Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin is changing the format of his informative video tours. Going forward you'll be seeing mostly or exclusively Rodki [...]