Tag: Video
‘I wanted to know that I live in Chicago’
Last night CMK Companies held a holiday party for 235 Van Buren homeowners at the Metropolitan Club, in the nearby Willis Tower. I met a young pro [...]
A ‘screaming deal’ on a Hinsdale home
Toward the end of a tour of Clarendon Hills, Mike McCurry stopped to show Joe Zekas a five-year-old home in Hinsdale that originally sold for $2.6 [...]
The homes, schools, and parks of Clarendon Hills
Last week we introduced you to Coldwell Banker agent Mike McCurry, who explained why many people choose to live in Clarendon Hills in lieu of Hins [...]
Tour a 20,000 square foot Northfield home
Curbed Chicago recently billed an 8,650 square foot home as a “temple of excess.” Some buyers would consider that size home pitifully inadequate.
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Loving the views from 235 Van Buren
What do sisters Alicia and Gabby like about their new condo at 235 Van Buren in Chicago's Loop?
Most of all, Alicia and Gabby love the east vie [...]
Discussing the Clarendon Hills market during a downtown drive
Joe Zekas and Coldwell Banker's Mike McCurry begin their drive around Clarendon Hills by looking at the village's compact downtown and its locally [...]
An introduction to Clarendon Hills with Mike McCurry
Clarendon Hills is a small community in Chicago's western suburbs, adjacent to its better-known neighbor, Hinsdale.
In this first part of our i [...]
East Lake Shore Drive foreclosure a “once-in-a-lifetime thing”
Dennis Rodkin has the dirt on the "first modern-day foreclosure" to hit East Lake Shore Drive: a 3,800 square-foot condo in the street's only condo bu [...]
Stuff that sells: How much for this Old Town townhome?
In October 2009, Joe Zekas shot a sponsored walk-through of a mint-condition townhome at 1447 N Cleveland Ave in Old Town with Prudential Rubloff' [...]
A brief look at southern Glencoe’s Woodlawn Ave
Home prices have fallen on the North Shore over the past several years, and Glencoe is no exception. The median list price, however, is still abov [...]
Will Lincoln Park follow the Edgewater precedent?
Today’s New York Times provides a timely reminder that a vacant hospital site can linger undeveloped for a decade or more, blighting the surroundi [...]
Mortgage lending is still alive on the North Shore
At an open house event in Winnetka, Joe Zekas met Diane Falk, a mortgage loan originator at Fifth Third Bank.
Joe had been hearing stories of p [...]
Should North Shore sellers sit out the holiday season?
A question on the minds of many home sellers as Thanksgiving approaches is whether they should take their home off the market during the holiday s [...]
Fifty years of Marina City
This is the 50th anniversary of the official, shiny-shovel groundbreaking ceremony for Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg's iconic city-within-a-city [...]
Creating a full-floor home in River North
Locals call Superior 110 "the blue building" because of the striking tint of its floor-to-ceiling windows. As you'll see in this video, the camera [...]
Walking Evanston’s lakefront and the Northwestern campus with Grand Bend’s Andy Kiener
Earlier this week, Joe Zekas met up with Andy Kiener from Grand Bend at Green Bay and headed to Evanston's lakefront, located just a short distanc [...]
Ed Smith isn’t coming back
...and the West Side might not, either. This week, the city's longest-serving black alderman submitted his resignation, effective at the end of No [...]
Once a ballroom, now a bedroom
The third and final part of Joe's tour through the Francis J. Dewes House touches on the private spaces of the home. The highlights include a mast [...]
The grand entertaining spaces of the Francis J. Dewes House
Follow Joe Zekas through the public spaces of the Francis J. Dewes House, one of the many highlights of which is a spectacular staircase with a st [...]
Touring the Francis J. Dewes House, a landmark home in Lincoln Park
Last Friday Joe spent an hour marveling at the Francis J. Dewes House in Lincoln Park.
The home was one of the most lavishly detailed and decor [...]