Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom in Newberry Plaza at 1030 N. State Parkway in the heart of the Gold Coast restaurant district came on the market in October 2012. It’s not your vanilla 2-bedroom unit. The listing says it has $300,000 in high end upgrades. The kitchen has custom cabinets, stone counter tops and some stainless steel appliances. […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom historic house at 1328 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast in 2010 and 2011. See our August 2011 chatter here. Built in 1938, the house, known as the Florsheim Mansion, was designed by Andrew Rebori and then added onto by Bertrand Goldberg in the 1950s. There are actually […]

This 3-bedroom at 1234 N. Dearborn in the Gold Coast has been on the market since January 2013. It’s the top floor unit in the front building of a 6-unit association. (Remember the coach house in back that was bank owned back in 2008? See the pictures of it here.) It appears to be on […]

This 3-bedroom triplex penthouse at 221 E. Walton in the Gold Coast may look familiar to some of you. We’ve previously chattered about its sister unit, #20PE, which had the same layout but also had a jacuzzi out on its private deck. See our chatter about that unit here. I’m not sure if that unit […]

I don’t have a picture of this 5-bedroom single family house at 67 E. Bellevue in the Gold Coast even though it’s been on and off the market since September 2010. It’s being sold as a teardown. The listing says “sold as is.” The current house has 3 stories and a 1-car garage on a […]

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom unit in a vintage carriage house at 29 W. Chestnut in the Gold Coast all the way back in August 2008 (when Crib Chatter was first getting started!). See our 2008 chatter here. The triplex unit never sold and was on and off the market the last 5 years. The property […]

This 1-bedroom in 1300 N. Astor in the Gold Coast has been on and off the market since June of 2012. The unit has been reduced $10,000 since June to $190,000. The building was designed by Bertrand Goldberg in 1963. The unit has a south west corner view. From the pictures in the listing, it […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom duplex up at 39 E. Schiller in the Gold Coast in April 2010. See our prior chatter here. Back then, it was listed as a short sale for $550,000. The building was built in 1980 and many of you thought the unit looked like something out of suburbia. It […]

This 3-bedroom in 1210 N. Astor in the Gold Coast just came on the market. The Holabird & Roche designed building was constructed in 1897 for John McConnell, who had recently purchased the corner lot. Called the McConnell Apartments, there were 2 units per floor in the 8 story structure. According to Neil Harris’ Chicago […]

This 3-bedroom in a mid-rise building in Sandburg Village at 1555 N. Sandburg in the Gold Coast (or is this Old Town? The listing calls it Old Town) just came on the market. This unit has been renovated. The kitchen now has cherry cabinets, stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. The master bathroom is marble […]