Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom at 2700 N. Hampden in Lincoln Park has been on the market since June 2012. It is a short sale. It is a north east corner unit with hardwood floors. It doesn’t have central air (wall units only) or in-unit laundry but there is rental parking available in the building OR a spot […]

Far west Lakeview and Lincoln Park aren’t the only locations where you can get a 2-bedroom townhouse for under $335,000. This 2-bedroom townhouse at 1157 W. Newport in Southport has been on the market since April 2011. According to the Redfin agent comments, it used to be a 3 bedroom but the two second floor […]

This 7-bedroom mansion at 10200 S. Longwood in Beverly came on the market in April 2012. It is known as the “Horton Mansion.” According to Curbed Chicago it was built for Horace Horton, the founder of Chicago Bridge & Iron, in 1890. It sits on a huge lot measuring about a half an acre on […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom brick ranch at 5646 N. Nottingham in Old Norwood Park in March 2012. See our prior chatter here. Back in March, it was priced at $220,ooo and most, if not all of you, thought that was a decent price for a house in a neighborhood considered safe and with […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom modern construction single family home at 336 W. Wisconsin in Lincoln Park in March 2012. See our prior chatter here. It’s one of the “movie houses” which got a lot of publicity because The Fugitive, with Harrison Ford, was filmed in it. Yet 13 months later, it’s still on the […]

This 3-bedroom in the midrise building at 4400 N. Paulina in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Uptown has been on the market for a month. At 1800 square feet, the corner unit has a separate dining room and multiple exposures. The kitchen has cherry cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. The unit has central […]

We’ve chattered about this 6-bedroom single family home at 1418 W. Fulton in the Fulton Market neighborhood of the Near West Side several times over the years, with the last time being in December 2009. See our December 2009 chatter here. Back then, some of you thought the neighborhood was too under developed to take […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom new(er) construction single family home at 3251 N. Lakewood in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview in November 2011. See our prior chatter here. The house has an interesting prior sales history. The house was new construction built in 2009 on a standard 25×125 Chicago lot. It was on the […]

This 3-bedroom in the mid-rise at 322 W. Belden in East Lincoln Park recently came on the market. The building was built in 1914 and the unit retains much of its vintage charm including wood paneling, built-ins, crown molding and french doors. At 2200 square feet, the south facing unit has a full size dining […]

We’ve chattered about “The Pratt Mansion”, as I’m calling it, at 2100 W. Pratt Boulevard in West Ridge several times over the last couple of years. See our January 2012 chatter here. It was in distress as the bank had filed a lis pendens foreclosure all the way back in 2010. The house had been […]