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This 2-bedroom in The Silver Tower at 303 W. Ohio in River North came on the market in June 2020. The Silver Tower was built at the end of the housing boom in 2009. It has 229 units and a parking garage. It’s a full amenity building with doormen, an exercise room and outdoor decks. […]

The Illinois Association of Realtors is out with the November sales data. And despite a surge in the coronavirus throughout the state, sales were hot once again. Or were they? The city of Chicago saw year-over-year home sales increase 17.6 percent with 1,965 sales in November, compared to 1,671 a year ago. The median price […]

This 2-bedroom in Aqua at 225 N. Columbus in the New East Side (also known as Lakeshore East) came on the market in May 2019. Aqua was built in 2009 and has 262 units and a parking garage. It’s a full service building with doormen, a pool, exercise room, and clubhouse. It has won architecture […]

This 6-bedroom vintage penthouse in the Jackson Shore Apartments at 5490 S. South Shore in Hyde Park came on the market in May 2019. Jackson Shore Apartments was designed by Rapp & Rapp in 1917. The Rapps mainly designed cinemas in the 1920s. According to the Chicago Apartments, A Century of Lakefront Luxury, it was […]

This 3-Bedroom in the Park Monroe at 65 E. Monroe in the Loop came on the market in August 2020. Built in 2013, the Park Monroe has 216 units and garage parking. It takes up the top floors of the building and has an indoor pool and rooftop sundeck. This unit is on the 40th […]

This 2-bedroom in The Legacy at 60 E. Monroe across from Millennium Park in the Loop came on the market in July 2020. The Legacy was built at the end of the housing boom, in 2009. It has 355 units and a parking garage. It’s a full-service building with doormen, an exercise room, a pool […]

This 3-bedroom in 6 N. Michigan across from Millennium Park in the Loop came on the market in July 2019. 6 N. Michigan was built in 1898 but wasn’t converted into condos until the housing bubble years in 2007-2008. It is a full amenity building with a 24-hour doorman, an exercise room and sundeck. It […]

This 2-bedroom in the Metropolitan Tower at 310 S. Michigan in the Loop came on the market in May 2020. Built in 1924, according to Wikipedia, Metropolitan Tower was the first building over 30 stories in Chicago. It was converted to 235 condos during the housing boom in 2007-2008. It’s a full amenity building with a […]

This 5-bedroom in 2450 N. Lakeview in Lincoln Park came on the market in January 2020 but has been on, and off, the market since 2014. 2450 N. Lakeview is a 13-story neoclassical co-op designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw. It was his final building and was constructed between 1922 and 1924. It has a […]

This 3-bedroom in 1325 N. Astor in the Gold Coast originally came on the market in August 2019. According to Chicago Apartments, 1325 N. Astor was built to be lavish. Designed by Rebori, Dewey and Wentworth and built by Dahl-Stedman in 1928-29 it is only 14 stories with 12 units but has full-time doormen and […]