Crib Chatter

This 4-bedroom vintage home at 38 E. Schiller in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2019. It looks old, but according to the listing, only the 1887 façade is original. The rest of the house is a new steel beam construction home rebuilt from the foundation in 2001. It’s on a smaller […]

This 6-bedroom single family house at 4301 N. Greenview in the Graceland West neighborhood in Lakeview came on the market in May 2019. Built in 2009, the 7000 square foot house is on an extra large 41.5 x 120 corner lot. It has a 2.5 car heated garage which is attached to the house through […]

This 3-bedroom vintage single family house at 1338 W. Grace in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview came on the market on February 19, 2020. It was under contract within 5 days- by February 24. Built in 1891 on a non-standard 58×40 lot, it has a front porch and a side driveway that fits 3-cars. The […]

This 3-bedroom townhouse at 1633 W. Belle Plaine in the Graceland West neighborhood of Lakeview came on the market in January 2020. Built in 1973, this complex has 10 2-story townhouses with a central courtyard and outdoor parking on the side alley. The listing says this townhouse has a new roof and all windows were […]

The Illinois Association of Realtors is out with the January sales data and the Chicago housing market showed improvement for the second month in a row. The city of Chicago saw year-over-year home sales increase 5.9 percent with 1,427 sales in January, compared to 1,347 a year ago. The median price of a home in […]

This 3-bedroom loft in the Michigan Avenue Lofts at 910 S. Michigan in the South Loop recently came on the market. This building was constructed in 1910 and has 267 units and parking. It has a doorman and exercise room and sits directly across from Grant Park. This loft has the high ceilings and large […]

This 2 bedroom loft at 1318 W. George in West Lakeview came on the market in July 2019. I don’t know when the building was constructed but it was converted into lofts into 7 lofts and attached heated garage parking in 1996. It has an elevator and a shared patio. This loft is a duplex […]

This 2-bedroom on the 26th floor in State Tower at 1230 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast just came on the market. This building was construction in 1979 and has 92 units and an attached garage. It’s a doorman building which also has a club room, an exercise room and a rooftop deck. This […]

This 3-bedroom penthouse triplex loft in the Tower Lofts at 1601 W. School just came on the market. Built in 1915, it was the former Weiboldt’s store. It has 80 lofts and heated garage parking. There’s no doorman. There’s also no longer scaffolding on this building. I need to update my picture. This penthouse level […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 1324 W. Webster in Lincoln Park came on the market in February 2020. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it when it was on the market in 2017. Back then, it was listed for $2.999 million and many of you thought the price was too high […]