Attention Cubs Fans: Live Within a Minute of Your Beloved Wrigley Field
Do you dream about the Cubs, wear Cubs shirts, go on Cubs cruises and just count down the days until opening day every year at Wrigley Field?
Why not live right next to the park? You can live within a minute of the park and hear the roars of the crowd from your rooftop deck. You can hang out in the local bars before and after the games.
I’ve always wondered, who is crazy enough to live right on Sheffield or Waveland with the park across the street? Someone does. Right now, there is nothing on the market directly across from Wrigley Field on those two streets. But isn’t living only one block away good enough? You can still hear the roar of the crowds while not actually witnessing the crowds or their shenanigans.
There is still time to buy and move in before next season starts.
You could live on Addison in a newly renovated greystone located about 1 1/2 blocks west of Wrigley:
1249 W. Addison #2: 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1312 square feet
- Currently listed at $549,900
- 1 parking space (not sure if that’s included in the price)
- Two porches
- Prello Realty has the listing
Or if you want to be a little closer to the lake, there is always this vintage building that is a block east of Wrigley, also on Addison:
923 W. Addison #1: 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2400 square feet duplex
- Sold in September 2002 for $302,000 (not sure if this is the same listing as it shows it as 3 bedrooms, 2 baths but the same unit number)
- Currently listed for $449,900
- Parking space or rental parking? (I can’t tell from the listing)
- Assessments of $217 a month
- Real Living Helios has the listing
If you must live on Sheffield, perhaps this unit a block north of Wrigley would still give you the adrenalin rush. It has a private rooftop deck where presumably you can have the radio tuned to the game and hear the roar of the crowd at the same time:
3721 N. Sheffield #C3S: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, penthouse duplex
- Sold in January 2001 for $290,000
- Currently listed for $419,900 (says parking is included)
- Assessment of $238 a month
- @Properties has the listing
Go Cubs!
Other than the two rental buildings at waveland & kenmore, aren’t all of the buildings in the 3600 block of Sheffield or the 1000 block of Waveland “rooftop” establishments with no one living in them? Perhaps I’m forgetting one or two buildings, but it isn’t like the streets are lined with condos.
Does anyone know about the buildings on Sheffield?
If no one actually lives in those anymore (I understand they all have the stands on their roofs now but I thought a few people still lived in some of them), then the closest you’re going to get to the park are some of the listings I provided here.
As an owner, that is.
According to county records, these are the commercial and residential addresses on Sheffield:
commercial: 3609, 3611, 3617-19 (parking lot under development), 3653 (Murphy’s).
residential (or mixed-use): 3621, 3627, 3631, 3633, 3637, 3639, 3643, 3649, 3651.
As for Waveland: 1032, 1038, 1044, 1048, 1050 are all residential (or mixed-use).
If any of those designated as residential aren’t being used that way, they are scamming the taxman since residential (and mixed-use under 20K sf) are assessed at 16% of market value, and commercial at 38%.