Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom at 1230 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2025. Built in 1981, 1230 N. State Parkway has 92 units and attached garage parking. It has 24-hour door staff, an onsite gym, party room, and rooftop deck. It used to have some extra guest parking behind the […]

This 3-bedroom house known as the “Yellow House” at 314 W. Menomonee in Old Town came on the market in February 2025. Built in 1875, it is a landmarked home in the Old Town Triangle historic district with brick sidewalks out front and a white picket fence. The house is on a 34×60 lot. It […]

This 2-bedroom at 527 W. Surf in East Lakeview came on the market in August 2025. Built in 1920, this building has 24 units, a laundry room, a bike room and private storage. We last chattered about this unit during the hot pandemic market, in July 2022. Back then, many of you thought it was […]

This 3-bedroom loft in the Manchester Building at 2035 W. Charleston in Bucktown came on the market in July 2025. Built in 1890, the Manchester Building was originally a hospital and then, by the 1920s, was converted to an industrial building with a bunch of different small businesses. It was converted to 18 loft condos […]

This 4-bedroom Romanesque Revival single family home at 2138 W. Caton in the “Bucktown & Wicker Park area” came on the market in June 2025. (Do you think Mario was reading Crib Chatter about this area north of North Avenue and JohnC’s constant posts that it is really Wicker Park???) We chattered about it in […]

This 2-bedroom in the historic Brewster Building at 2800 N. Pine Grove in Lakeview came on the market in August 2025. Built in 1893, the Brewster is a landmarked building with 90 units. It was originally built as a luxury apartment building. Not only did Charlie Chaplin live in one of the penthouses in 1915-1916, […]

This 3-bedroom Alta Vista Terrace row house at 3838 N. Alta Vista in Lakeview came on the market in August 2025. The pictures above are of two others on the street, as I didn’t have a picture of this specific row house. These give you a flavor of what the street looks like. You may […]

This 1-bedroom in The Mews at 1368 E. 57th in Hyde Park came on the market in August 2025. The Mews is a famous condo building in Hyde Park. Built in 1914 by Prairie architect Robert Spencer, it has 24 units. There’s no parking or other amenities. There is a laundry room in the building. […]

This 2-bedroom duplex up in The Churchill at 1255 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in June 2025. The Churchill was built in 1924 and has 64 units. It has 24-hour door staff and full-time maintenance team Monday through Friday from 9 to 5. There’s a bike room but no […]

This 2-bedroom at 1400 N. LaSalle in Old Town came on the market in May 2025. Built in 1879, 1400 N. LaSalle has 7 units. It’s a 3-story walk up with a vintage staircase and skylights in the shared hallway. It has a bike room but no other amenities. This unit is a top floor […]