Crib Chatter

This 5-bedroom townhouse in 20 N. Loomis in the West Loop came on the market in April 2021. Built in 2018, this townhouse complex has 8 units and attached garage parking. This townhouse has 10 foot ceilings and a private elevator for the 4 floors. The kitchen, living and dining room are on the second […]

This 2-bedroom duplex up loft in Churchill Row at 2111 W. Churchill in Bucktown just came on the market. Churchill Row, a former cabinet factory, was converted into 39 loft condominiums in the early 2000s. It has attached garage parking. This loft has authentic loft features including exposed brick walls and 17 foot timber ceilings. […]

This 4-bedroom duplex-up penthouse at 2948 N. Pine Grove in East Lakeview just came on the market. Built in 1922, the building has 10 units. If it looks familiar, that’s because we’ve chattered about it several times,  in 2013 and in 2017. See our 2017 chatter here. If you recall, it has a 2-story ceiling […]

This 5-bedroom Victorian row house at 58 E. Elm in the Gold Coast came on the market in October 2020. Built in 1883, the row house is on a smaller than standard Chicago lot measuring 16 x 103. It has a unique rear coach house with an oversized 1-car garage. The house has some of […]

This 6-bedroom Victorian at 341 W. Belden in East Lincoln Park came on the market in May 2021. Built in 1874, this single family home is on a larger than standard Chicago lot measuring 30 x 125. It does not have a garage but does have 3 coveted parking spots behind the house on the […]

The bull housing market just keeps charging along in Chicago as inventory remains tight and buyers are still in the market in decade high levels. From the Illinois Association of Realtors: In the city of Chicago, home sales (single-family and condominiums) in June 2021 totaled 3,767 homes sold, up 81.8 percent from June 2020 sales […]

This 2-bedroom in Park Place Tower at 655 W. Irving Park in Lakeview came on the market in July 2021. Built in 1973, Park Place Tower is one of the tallest buildings on the north side of the city. It has 901 units and garage parking. It’s a full amenity building with “resort style living” […]

While Chicago housing sales have jumped to 15-year highs city wide, one of the slowest neighborhoods has been downtown. Downtown was the epicenter of the looting/protests and pandemic shutdowns over the last year with many restaurants and retail stores shut or boarded up during this time. Was it “over” for downtown? How many years would […]

This 4-bedroom Italianate house at 11118 S. Artesian in Morgan Park came on the market in July 2021. (sorry- I don’t have a picture, unfortunately.) Built in 1857 as a farmhouse, the Italianate two story front part of the house was added in the 1870s. Built by Charles Iglehart, it was in an area originally […]

This 2-bedroom loft at 1521 N. Milwaukee in Bucktown came on the market in July 2021. Built in 1906, this building was converted to lofts during the housing bubble in 2006. It has 3 lofts and an attached garage. This is a top floor unit with a wall of windows overlooking the shops and restaurants […]