A 7-Bedroom Estate With an Underground Garage in Graceland West: 4130 N. Greenview

This 7-bedroom single family home at 4130 N. Greenview in the Graceland West neighborhood of Lakeview came on the market in February 2021.

Built in 2016, the listing says it’s on 5 lots measuring 100 x 161 and took 5 years to acquire the land.

The 11,000 square foot home sits on one 50 x 161 lot and a side yard sits on the other.

There are 7 parking spaces including a bunch in an underground, attached heated garage and several in 2 garages on the side yard.

It has 2 heated mudrooms and 3 laundry rooms.

There are 4 fireplaces, two indoors and two outdoors, including one on the 48×12 patio which also has a Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet Kitchen.

The house’s indoor kitchen has white and wood cabinets and a La Cornue range with a large kitchen island.

There’s a wine cellar in the lower level along with a recreation room and two bedrooms.

4 bedrooms are on the second level and the final bedroom is on the third floor.

The top floor has cathedral ceilings.

There’s a sports court on the side yard along with an outdoor television and fireplace on the patio.

It has central air.

Graceland West has gotten more exclusive since the housing bust. There’s a 5-bedroom home just north of this one on Berteau that is listed at $5.5 million.

Is Graceland West the new millionaire row?

Marlene Granacki at Re/Max 10 Lincoln Park has the listing. See the pictures here.

4130 N. Greenview: 7 bedrooms, 7 baths, 11,000 square feet, single family home

  • One of the lots sold in May 2013 for $1.675 million
  • I don’t know what was paid for the other lots
  • Originally listed in February 2021 for $7.995 million
  • Currently still listed at $7.995 million
  • Taxes of $50,118 
  • Central Air
  • 3 laundry rooms
  • 2 mudrooms
  • 4 fireplaces (2 indoors and 2 outdoors)
  • Outdoor television
  • Sports court
  • 100 x 161 lot
  • 7 parking spaces including an underground heated garage and 2 other garages on the side yard
  • Bedroom #1: 18×17 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #2: 14×11 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #3: 15×12 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #4: 16×17 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #5: 14×11 (lower level)
  • Bedroom #6: 13×11 (lower level)
  • Bedroom #7: 38×21 (third floor)
  • Living room: 17×13 (main floor)
  • Dining room: 17×16 (main floor)
  • Kitchen: 23×11 (main floor)
  • Recreation room: 32×27 (lower level)
  • Exercise room: 21×15 (lower level)
  • Family room: 32×26 (main floor)

 

 

68 Responses to “A 7-Bedroom Estate With an Underground Garage in Graceland West: 4130 N. Greenview”

  1. WOW. After 15 years spent building and customizing the dream house and having lots of kids, who appear to still be pretty young, are leaving.
    I wonder if they are just fed up with Chicago. It’d certainly be difficult for them to upgrade without leaving the city.

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  2. “There’s a 5-bedroom home just north of this one on Berteau that is listed at $5.5 million.”

    Jon Lester’s house.

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  3. Truly stunning. But the taxes still seem quite low for this list price. If purchased, wonder what new taxes will be.

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  4. “Do we have first amendment rights here?”

    No. Even if one is a fruitcake and thinks that the host is an alter-ego of the government, that belief wouldn’t carry the day.

    “fearing he will end up in a BLM situation like the couple in St. Louis did”

    He’s afraid that he will go outside and start shouting at a BLM crowd marching by, while carrying a gun you think he doesn’t have? Are you suggesting he’s kookoo, and not in control of his own actions, and able to conjure weapons from thin air?

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  5. “If purchased, wonder what new taxes will be.”

    If it were assessed at $7.5m, they’d be ~$150k.

    For context on the likelihood of that, the neighbor to the south:

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/4122-N-Greenview-Ave-60613/home/13393702

    sold for $3.8m in 2016. The 2018 re-assessment had it at $3,800,060, but they appear to have won at the board of review and got it reduced to $3,489,040. Fritz’s COVID reductions dropped it further to $3,175,020.

    So, at the current moment, it’s reasonable to think 1/6 below a fairly recent sale is ‘right’. While that logic likely doesn’t apply to a *current* sale, it still could justify a ~$6.5m AMV, and a $130k tax bill.

    I don’t think it would end up that high bc “vacant” lots on the northside are pretty consistently undervalued by the assessor. The AMV of the 50×161 (ie, 2.5 standard lots) yard here is only $386,400, while it’s FMV is likely $1.5m. With that undervaluation, I’d shave another $1m off the AMV, and say the likely tax bill would be ~$115k.

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  6. “He’s afraid that he will go outside and start shouting at a BLM crowd marching by, while carrying a gun you think he doesn’t have? Are you suggesting he’s kookoo, and not in control of his own actions, and able to conjure weapons from thin air?”

    No, I interpreted his comment to read that — like the Saint Louis couple — he can’t rely on the city’s police department to protect his property and his family. This is true really for any property owner but a HNW family is definitely more of a target. With the ongoing chaos in the city, and a mayor who can’t seem to get it together — I can’t blame him for wanting to cut ties. Crazy low RE taxes aren’t even keeping them put.

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  7. Super nice place but I would rather have multiple houses in other locations than this one

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  8. “multiple houses in other locations than this one”

    But lets say you can reasonably allocate, say, ~$20m to residential real estate, and you run a Chicago-based business that actually required your semi-regular presence…then?

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  9. Call me a stick in the mud but I’m not a fan of letting people build on five adjoining city lots. It really messes up the scale of the neighborhood and if everyone did this, it would start to look like Barrington.

    I’m also against ostentatious displays of wealth, which this certainly is.

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  10. “five adjoining city lots.”

    It’s the size of 5 standard lots, but the lots in this stretch of Greenview are platted as 50′ and are deeper than standard.

    Thus, this place is technically on 2 lots–each the same size as 4122, which I linked above.

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  11. also, the houses to the north are on a 50×161 lots, too, but as you can see from the one 2 north, they once had much more modest sized homes:

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/4142-N-Greenview-Ave-60613/home/13393182

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  12. The buyer pool for this place is pretty limited (obvious comment is obvious, right?)

    I lived just south of here on Greenview for several years and I loved, loved, loved walking through the neighborhood. There are so many gorgeous homes.

    I did NOT love trying to get to and from downtown from this location. Brown line (Irving Park) is easy walking distance but sllloooooowwww. Red Line (Sheridan) is not too much of a hike, except there’s that stretch along Irving where you’re walking by the two graveyards, which I hated doing when it was dark. I sometimes walked to the Southport brown line stop, which was far AND slow!

    (In one of life’s cruel twists of fate, I had been staffed in other cities for YEARS and YEARS, while living in a location that was super accessible to downtown, and less than 6 months after I moved to this location, I got staffed on a 2-year project in the Loop.)

    like the couple in St. Louis

    I was really pissed that there were no Halloween celebrations last year because the minute I saw those two, I said “easiest couples costume ever”.

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  13. I don’t know what my point was with all the commuting info – someone who lives in an $8M house is probably not taking the el to work.

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  14. Hmmmm. Never met the guy and only seem to have one contact in common but as far as I know but after looking at his LinkedIn and reading about the nonprofit he started with his wife (who happens to be an attorney), I don’t get the impression these folks are remotely like the flabby gun toting St. Louis couple. The fact the wife here is an attorney seems to be the only thing they have in common with the St.Louis folks referenced above…When I research folks in my job I find obituaries to be a wealth of info and holy smokes this guys’ late uncle was an interesting dude too…I highly doubt the seller is what helmet fantasies they are…I cannot even begin to speculate why someone in this stratosphere of wealth would be selling when clearly they are getting a screaming deal on their taxes. They probably just want a new place and think they can turn a profit on this fairly amazing and unique property?

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  15. “It’s the size of 5 standard lots, but the lots in this stretch of Greenview are platted as 50? and are deeper than standard.”

    Thanks for the info anon(tfo). I just provided the info in the listing but while I was typing it I was thinking “isn’t this just 2 lots?”

    Lol.

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  16. “No, I interpreted his comment to read that — like the Saint Louis couple — he can’t rely on the city’s police department to protect his property and his family.”

    The St Louis couple lived on a private street. It literally has a gate on each end.

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  17. “The tech company has its HQ office on N Michigan Ave, so not anywhere near the Metra train stations that cater to the suburbanites. Plus, gotta be in the city to attract that talent!”

    If anyone needs further confirmation that HH doesn’t live in Chicago it’s simply comments like this.

    No one who lives in the city even thinks like this as everyone they know also lives, and works, in the city. Fulton Market has been booming for 6 to 7 years now. FM doesn’t cater to “the suburbanites” either (although they are, hopefully, going to put a metra stop in the neighborhood- fingers crossed).

    The city has changed dramatically since HH lived in it.

    The whole “the city is scary” is so 1995. Rich people are staying in the city. Have been for years.

    Please get in this century.

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  18. “It’d certainly be difficult for them to upgrade without leaving the city.”

    Ken Griffin keeps buying new properties around Chicago, and he has young kids too. Just because you sell one property doesn’t mean you’re leaving the area. But even if they are, lots of executives take new jobs in a new city and they have to uproot (see Jamie Dimon who once owned a big house in the Gold Coast that took years to sell during the financial crisis.)

    Some of you have to stop putting your own city biases on other people.

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  19. “ It’d certainly be difficult for them to upgrade without leaving the city.”

    ‘“ Some of you have to stop putting your own city biases on other people.”

    Ok Sabrina. Where can this growing family upgrade to in the city? Clearly expect a nearly equal amount of square footage and outdoor space, comparable finishes, and similar proximity to downtown and proximity to the Sacred Heart School (or similar caliber school) bus stop mentioned in the listing.

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  20. “Ok Sabrina. Where can this growing family upgrade to in the city?”

    There’s plenty of mansions in Lincoln Park on big lots.

    They can also do a penthouse condo, like Ken Griffin.

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  21. “ There’s plenty of mansions in Lincoln Park on big lots.
    They can also do a penthouse condo, like Ken Griffin.”

    With all the sports equipment and green space they are accustomed to, I think it is fair to say that a condo won’t work for this family.
    Links to Lincoln park mansions on 5 lots in the under $9M range?

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  22. If they want to upgrade, they can.

    It’s in the $15 million range.

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1950-N-Burling-St-60614/home/13348716

    Also, many buildings have amenities and you could nab one with some outdoor space. Plenty of kids are living in high rises all over town.

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  23. ‘ Links to Lincoln park mansions on 5 lots in the under $9M range?“

    ‘If they want to upgrade, they can.
    It’s in the $15 million range.”

    I guess if they want to double their budget, keep the same size home, significantly decrease their outdoor space, and move outside their neighborhood/ school district it’s an option. But I’m not really seeing any reasons why this would be advantageous?

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  24. “the under $9M range”

    If they are upgrading from $8m, why would they maintain the same budget?

    Gotta go at least +50% for it to be considered an “upgrade”, no? At whatever pricepoint?

    If I’m selling a $1m house to upgrade, I’m not looking at $1.1m places–I’m looking in (at least) the $1.5-$1.8 range.

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  25. About half of the units in my highrise are 3 or 4 bedrooms. There are very few full time residents with children.

    Never been to Graceland West, looks like to might be fun to walk around.

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  26. “About half of the units in my highrise are 3 or 4 bedrooms. There are very few full time residents with children.”

    Don’t worry folks, if you won’t voluntarily move your family and children into a high rise, our dear leaders just bring the high rise living family to you instead:

    https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/04/14/zoning-biden-infrastructure-bill-would-curb-single-family-housing/7097434002/

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  27. “our dear leaders just bring the high rise living [] to you”

    Yes, providing incentives to encourage building 2-6 unit buildings is *definitely* bringing high rise living to me.

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  28. Nice try at distortion, HD, but most people here aren’t Fox News watchers who will be the type of sheep that buy your propaganda.

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  29. Dan – Very lazy and Sabrina-esque

    Debate him on the comment, don’t pull a lazy “Orangeman bad” trope and claim the moral highground…

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  30. And worse, he calls full on communist USA Today a distortion and fake news. USA Today!

    Anon(tfo), will you be the first to allow low income apartment housing next to your single family home?

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  31. “Anon(tfo), will you be the first to allow low income apartment housing next to your single family home?”

    This is always how it is with you Homedelete. You immediately believe that there’s going to be a high rise right next to your house in Palatine.

    Or it has to be “low income” apartments. It can’t just be that we need to build more middle class and working class housing, everywhere, in America.

    It always has to be the extremes with some on this blog. Never anything even close to reality.

    Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear.

    Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

    Hate the “other.” “They’re” coming to your town, right HD? “They” are going to move in next door.

    Oldest trope in the book.

    So tiring that this same bullshit is still being used by the right 50 years after the first time they used it.

    This is the mid-term platform, right? Elect Republicans so that the Democrats don’t build a high rise next door.

    Laughable.

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  32. Also, it’s hilarious that people on a Chicago housing blog, the home of the world’s first skyscraper and several of the tallest residential buildings in the world, are arguing AGAINST density and high rises.

    Just stay in your town amidst the corn Homedelete. Leave city living to the rest of us who can handle it.

    As I’ve said many times, the big cities aren’t for everyone. Most can’t compete. And that’s okay.

    Viva America. Plenty of land to live on if you don’t want to live in an urban area. And even better, no one is stopping you from moving.

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  33. Hear hear! Sabrina. You tell him. He’s on the wrong blog. Just trolling us.

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  34. “will you be the first to allow low income apartment housing next to your single family home?”

    I live between 2 three unit buildings. Which is exactly what was described in the article you linked.

    Stop trolling, and either move to Montana, or grow up.

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  35. “Debate him on the comment”

    HD lied about what’s in his link.

    HD is a lying liar who lies.

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  36. “ HD lied about what’s in his link.”

    Yeah it’s not high rises – would that have been much harder than “Orangeman Bad”?

    I have mixed feelings on this, I seems that the biggest proponents are UMC/UC which rarely affects their SFH. The bigger issue is that these cities have never had a good Comprehensive plan incorporating mfh along transportation corridors.

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  37. Yeah it’s not high rises – would that have been much harder than “Orangeman Bad”?

    WTF does this even mean?

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  38. “The bigger issue is that these cities have never had a good Comprehensive plan incorporating mfh along transportation corridors.”

    YUP!! A lot of post-ww2 US zoning policy has had a lot of weird (to me) blind spots like that–and in big cities, too.

    Chicago’s zoning code is a mess, too. The last re-do in ’05(?) included a lot of fitting the zoning for a parcel to what was in fact there at the time, rather than what “should” be there and just grandfathering in the existing building/use until it’s torn down. But here the suspicion has to include ‘intentional to help aldermen keep making $$’.

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  39. Neighborhoods without multi-family housing have limited amenities in terms of restaurants, bars, breweries, grocery stores, independent stores, etc. You can get your single family home in the suburbs, but then you lose out on being able to walk to amenities. You need to have multi-family housing to have nice things within walking distance. It’s a trade off. There are plenty of upscale areas with a mix of different types of housing. I’m sick of the noise of the city, but I don’t think I’m ready to give up amenities.

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  40. “President Joe Biden wants cities to put more apartment buildings and multifamily units, such as converted garages, in areas traditionally zoned for single-family housing.”

    This is the first sentence of the USA Today article. High Rise apartment buildings are most certainly included in the ‘apartment buildings and multifamily units’ category. How tall is a high rise? Do you want a 5 story building next to your single family house? 10 stories? The banning of SFH zoning is not just for transportation corridors – they want to change the law to get rid of single family housing *everywhere*.

    “The bigger issue is that these cities have never had a good Comprehensive plan incorporating mfh along transportation corridors.”

    Why? Why do they need this? Must every town look like Oak Park or Evanston for Equity? Why can’t the people of Northbrook decide how they want their streets, with 45 mph traffic, no sidewalks, and fences backing up to every neighborhood? Why do they have to allow houses in subudivisions turn into apartment buildings because they are near some underutilized PACE stop? Why?

    “You need to have multi-family housing to have nice things within walking distance. It’s a trade off”

    This is not true. Did you not see my link to that wonderful Naperville house right by the Riverwalk? Walk score of 74. Pricey but nice

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Naperville/401-Highland-Ave-60540/home/39599249

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  41. anon(tfo), you live between two 3-flats. Are they low income? What if instead of three stories, they became 5 or 6 stories.

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  42. Living across from Section 8 housing in not ideal. Used to live in a Hyde Park 6-flat across from a vintage 14-floor apartment building with section 8 tenants. Their small yard was always filled with garbage, people hanging out in front of the building (and on my steps) at all hours, beat-up cars filling up the street, and general disorder.

    After the building sold ($6MM) and renovated, it filled with grad students. There was much less litter in the yard and sidewalk and more calmness on the block. I did not have a car at the time (no parking), but car owners in my building said it was easier to find parking on the block afterwards. Very noticeable improvement

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  43. “For instance, in one of Chicago’s worst cases of racism (and racist flight) from minority encroachment happened when blacks moved into the Jewish neighborhood of Lawndale. All the Jews in Lawndale left, and today there’s not a single Jewish family left.”

    Again, like I said this is 50 YEARS OLD now. Even older.

    Helmethofer is OLD. He’s in his 70s. He probably was one of those who fled in white flight. And now he thinks it’s going to happen again when the city of Chicago and the Chicago suburbs are more diverse than ever before.

    The Chicago Tribune has done a whole series of articles on the movement of immigrant families. They come to the city and live in the ethnic neighborhood. They then move to a town like Berwyn which is affordable. Their kids then move to LaGrange, Naperville, etc. Their kids, who grew up in the suburbs, are then moving back to the city after college. Lol. Full circle. But they don’t live in the old ethnic neighborhoods. They live in Fulton Market, Lakeview, LP, downtown, South Loop etc. etc.

    But neighborhoods do change. How much of Bucktown is Polish anymore? Almost none of it.

    But be afraid. Be afraid of “low income” housing, of which there is plenty of it in the city of Chicago and the suburbs. But be afraid.

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  44. “I’m sick of the noise of the city, but I don’t think I’m ready to give up amenities.”

    Jenny, I’m shocked you aren’t considering either the far north side or the south side of the city- like Beverly and Morgan Park or Indian Boundary.

    Heck, even Hyde Park/Kenwood are pretty quiet, to be honest.

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  45. HH – – Please read “Family Properties” by Beryl Satter. You seem only partially informed on what actually happened in Lawndale and Ms. Satter has written an excellent book on the exact topic. If that book doesn’t appeal to you there are others I can recommend on the topic of housing policy in the United States and it’s ramifications for both urban areas and families of color….but Ms. Satter’s book focuses on Lawndale. There is also a series of short films called the Shame of Chicago – – the short film largely based on Ms. Satter’s book is complete, and very good. The Architecture Foundation recently held a screening. Hopefully it will be available again.

    Back to the property at hand and other properties it has been compared to: The 1950 Burling property last sold in 2018! To me that is crazy…but if you are a jet setting, uber-wealthy family, the Burling property is probably more secure to leave empty for weeks at a time….given it is unlikely to be your only home and has “enough” of everything the Subject property has. I absolutely can see this family “upgrading” to it for that reason. That neighborhood has a private security patrol and cameras every where. That is one reason why I choose to run there during hours when there aren’t a lot of folks out and about.

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  46. “ WTF does this even mean?”

    So you have no frame of reference here, Madeline You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know

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  47. “ YUP!! A lot of post-ww2 US zoning policy has had a lot of weird (to me) blind spots like that–and in big cities, too.
    Chicago’s zoning code is a mess, too. The last re-do in ’05(?) included a lot of fitting the zoning for a parcel to what was in fact there at the time, rather than what “should” be there and just grandfathering in the existing building/use until it’s torn down. But here the suspicion has to include ‘intentional to help aldermen keep making $$’.”

    Not Chicago but the city that first passed this. Small, run down house, torn down massive home built w/ MIL apt over garage. Meets ordinance

    The system will be gamed by the UMC/UC. Blue collar/MC will lose out if their area isn’t primed for gentrification

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  48. “ But neighborhoods do change. How much of Bucktown is Polish anymore? Almost none of it.”

    Keep Chicago UMC and White. Kick the poors out. Gentrification or bust

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  49. “What if instead of three stories, they became 5 or 6 stories.”

    Where is that in the article you cited?

    Can I cite to an article about a crazy white dude with a gun, and claim that crazy white dudes with guns are coming to your street?

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  50. “This is the first sentence of the USA Today article.:

    So, you read ONLY the first sentence?

    The second sentence, same paragraph:

    “cities would allow for smaller lots and for apartment buildings with fewer than six units to be built next to a traditional house”

    Does this shit work with judges? I know a lot of Illinois judges are just somebody somebody sent, but are they really that dim?

    Note also it sez *fewer* than 6–so its 5.

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  51. “The system will be gamed by the UMC/UC. Blue collar/MC will lose out if their area isn’t primed for gentrification”

    Keeping in mind that the median Chicago household rents, and the size of Chicago lots, I’m not sure I would be too concerned about that running rampant *in* Chicago. And a few more rental units at the back of owner occupied lots would be (generally) a positive.

    But places like Des Plaines and Park Ridge–with radical leftists running the town, and desperate to get that sweet federal money–should be worried. Probably gonna be 4-flats with a granny-garage on most lots on every arterial street.

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  52. “Keep Chicago UMC and White. Kick the poors out. Gentrification or bust”

    Says the guy who lives in Indiana and hasn’t lived in Chicago in decades.

    Lol.

    What are you even talking about? What does the Poles leaving Bucktown have to do with “kick the poors out”? Are you implying the Poles were poor?

    My grandmother grew up in Bucktown. She was a working class Pole. She raised her family in Lincoln Square, however. Ended up retiring out in the Western Suburbs in the 1970s. Lol.

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  53. “But when Jews move out or non-whites, it’s “for a better life” and they’re moving up in the world. Which is it? LOL. Hypocrisy.”

    I wasn’t talking about Jews HH. But you’re obsessed with them.

    The Tribune story followed immigrant families. Many lived in Pilsen or Back of the Yards originally.

    They bought homes in Berwyn. Their kids bought homes further out in the western suburbs/DuPage County. Their kids are moving back into the city of Chicago after college.

    Full circle.

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  54. About Professor Satter in Wikipedia:

    Satter was born on 14 January 1959 as the daughter of civil rights lawyer Mark J. Satter, who fought for black families suffering under the ruthless and oftentimes racist conditions that pervaded Chicago’s real estate market.[2]

    But Helmethofer knows more that someone who has focused on Chicago for her entire career and was influenced by her father’s career.

    Oh- and the racial make-up of Highland Park High school:

    https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/school.aspx?source=studentcharacteristics&source2=studentdemographics&Schoolid=340491130170002

    And Stevenson:

    https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/school.aspx?source=studentcharacteristics&source2=studentdemographics&Schoolid=340491250130001

    I stopped looking after seeing the make-up of those two schools.

    And yes, you ARE obsessed with Jewish people.

    Again, HH’s lack of knowledge about Chicago suburban high schools is yet another indication that he doesn’t live in Chicago nor does he live in the suburbs. Where DO you live HH?

    Because it’s not in Illinois.

    Get into this century please. The world is passing you by HH. America has a woman Speaker of the House and woman Vice President. Join reality.

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  55. “15 days to slow the spread”
    “The Afghan War will be short”
    “There were WMD’s in Iraq”
    “The interstate tolls are only temporary”
    “The IL State lottery will be used to fund education”
    “As part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, cities would allow for smaller lots and for apartment buildings with fewer than six units to be built next to a traditional house. “

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  56. “The system will be gamed by the UMC/UC. Blue collar/MC will lose out if their area isn’t primed for gentrification”

    What everyone believed to be true continues to be confirmed each and every day. Hopefully everyone at the Property Tax Appeals Board is arrested and publicly tarred and feathered. I also hope this goes beyond the Board and to the law firms and UMC/UC homeowners as well. Maybe a couple politicians at the State/County/Local level as well instead of just bureaucrats.

    It’s about damn time that this crap is coming to ahead.

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/7/12/22574718/fbi-investigates-cook-county-board-review-employee-allegedly-offer-lower-property-assessments-bribes

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  57. “Jenny, I’m shocked you aren’t considering either the far north side or the south side of the city- like Beverly and Morgan Park or Indian Boundary.

    Heck, even Hyde Park/Kenwood are pretty quiet, to be honest.”

    I grew up near Sauganash/Forest Glen and there weren’t very many amenities. My friends live in Edgebrook and they can only choose from a small number of restaurants if they want to eat in the neighborhood. I love the houses, but you’re giving up amenities for an affordable single family home.

    Most of my family/friends live either in near the center of the city or north into the suburbs. I like Hyde Park, but I don’t have friends who live there anymore.

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  58. Lots of Republican lies there HD. Should add:

    “Mexico will pay for the Wall”
    “Trade wars are easy to win”

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  59. Anon(tfo),

    I agree.

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  60. “It’s about damn time that this crap is coming to ahead. ”

    oh boy I can’t wait to get my refund check in the mail *eyeroll*

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  61. This house, with its incredible yard, just sold for $6.5 million.

    According to Crain’s, it’s the fifth property in the city to sell over $4 million so far in 2022.

    If you recall, 2021 saw a multi-year high in properties selling over $4 million in the entire Chicagoland area. There were 101 sales. Normal average was 51.

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  62. Ouch!

    Only you can celebrate a 20% haircut as a positive

    At least they still probably made money

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  63. “Only you can celebrate a 20% haircut as a positive”

    Again, the bears on this blog just can’t find any way to gaslight the good data.

    Oh no, the sellers didn’t get their $8 million price in GRACELAND WEST, which has never seen an $8 million selling price, nor a $6.5 million selling price. Heck, has Lakeview EVER seen that high of a selling price? I can’t recall ever seeing a six in front of a Lakeview home sale.

    This house is down the street from one of the others that you all said was horribly overpriced (for $1.4 million) because it was down the street from a Dunkin Donuts. Lol.

    Again, SO many of you don’t live in Chicago and things change quickly. Even if you left just a few years ago, there are tons of new buildings, changes in restaurants, stores etc.

    The bears just look like idiots.

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  64. “Oh no, the sellers didn’t get their $8 million price in GRACELAND WEST, which has never seen an $8 million selling price, nor a $6.5 million selling price. Heck, has Lakeview EVER seen that high of a selling price? I can’t recall ever seeing a six in front of a Lakeview home sale.”

    Who posted:

    “Graceland West has gotten more exclusive since the housing bust. There’s a 5-bedroom home just north of this one on Berteau that is listed at $5.5 million.

    Is Graceland West the new millionaire row?”

    “Is Graceland West the Secret Neighborhood of the Rich? 4301 N. Greenview”

    You hype things and when they dont come true you always have an excuse.

    I’m sure you’re just a joy to be around

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  65. “you all said was horribly overpriced (for $1.4 million) because it was down the street from a Dunkin Donuts. Lol.”

    It was fine when it was a Dunkin Donuts, but now that it’s just Dunkin, it’s terrible.

    HD’s real objection was to the Americash Loan, which has since closed, but strangely HD is ok with Cash America pawn shops.

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  66. Huh?

    What are you even talking about JohnnyU?

    Yes, there are SEVERAL other homes on the market over $4 million in the neighborhood. And they are now selling. For new record highs.

    The sizzle.

    Chicago’s housing market opens 2022 still red hot.

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  67. “Yes, there are SEVERAL other homes on the market over $4 million in the neighborhood. And they are now selling. For new record highs.”

    Why do you need to lie all the time? Mo Lesters house is the only one >$4MM, even if you expand outside of Graceland West.

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  68. “Why do you need to lie all the time? Mo Lesters house is the only one >$4MM, even if you expand outside of Graceland West.”

    Can you even believe that a $6.5 million sale happened in THIS neighborhood?

    Wow!!!!!!

    The sizzle.

    It is RED HOT in Chicago. I thought Southport was hot with it’s $3 million price point, but this is whole other level.

    Looking at sold homes, prior high in the last 5 years was $3.4 million. There’s a couple over $2 million. Greenview has big lots, even if you don’t buy extra property. Buyers will pay for more space.

    $6.5 million.

    Wow.

    It’s GRACELAND WEST!

    The big money is still spending. And yes, they are making a bet on Chicago.

    5th sale over $4 million in 2022.

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