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This 4-bedroom vintage row house at 915 N. LaSalle in the Gold Coast came on the market in March 2018. Built in 1876, on a longer than standard Chicago lot measuring 17 x 138, it appears to have 4 parking spaces behind the house. It has many of its original features including the wood custom […]

This 4-bedroom townhouse in the Sexton at 419 W. Grand in River North came on the market in January 2021. This townhouse is part of 17 townhouses that were built in 2000 and are part of the Sexton loft condo building. The townhouses get access to all the amenities of the condo building including the […]

This 2-bedroom in the South Residences at 680 N. Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville first came on the market in September 2019. This is a unique building as, according to Wikipedia, it was designed by two architects in two different phases. Completed in 1926, it was originally called the American Furniture Mart and was the […]

This 6-bedroom French Gothic mansion at 1449 N. Astor in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2020. Built in 1911, the house is all limestone and has 5-levels on a 33×125 lot. It has a 2.5 car attached garage. The house also has an elevator. The listing says it has been “renovated […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 1318 N. Astor (the house on the right in the picture above, although the house on the left, 1316 N Astor, is also on the market) came on the market in July 2020. Built in 1889, it’s on an irregular lot measuring 20.9 x 131.8 x 20.7 x 128.7. […]

Apparently, developers didn’t sell many new homes in Chicago in 2020. New homes are defined by Tracy Cross & Associates as a development with 10 or more units. It doesn’t include the single family home custom built in Southport. From Crain’s: Sales of new-construction homes in Chicago dropped to their lowest in 25 years in […]

This 6-bedroom vintage mansion at 1515 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in November 2020. Built in 1898, the house is on a larger than standard 30×130 lot and has a 1-car garage. It also has an elevator. The listing says it has gone through a multi-year renovation. Yet it […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1524 N. Astor in the Gold Coast came on the market in December 2020. It’s rare for its location as it was built in the middle of last century and not during the early 1900s. It was designed by Chicago architect I.W. Colburn in 1969. It’s on a smaller […]