Crib Chatter

This 6-bedroom contemporary single family home at 3540 N. Ravenswood in Roscoe Village came on the market in May 2018. Long time readers will recognize it because we chattered about it several times in 2011 and 2012. You can read our 2012 chatter here where we debated the pros and cons of having a basketball […]

This 2-bedroom in The Fordham at 25 E. Superior in River North came on the market in July 2019. The Fordham was built in 2002 and has 244 units and garage parking. It’s a full-service building with a pool and exercise room. The listing for this unit says it has been taken down to the […]

This 2-bedroom triplex loft in the Soda Pop Factory at 1001 W. Altgeld in Lincoln Park just came on the market. The listing calls it the Lasser Soda Pop Factory but other listings have always just called it the Soda Pop Factory but Lasser was a big soda pop maker in the city until the […]

This 3-bedroom loft in the Warehouse Lofts at 312 N. May in the Fulton Market neighborhood of the West Loop just came on the market. The Warehouse Lofts were built in 1925 and has 42 units. It was part of the Loftminium conversion of loft rental apartments into condos in 2000-2001 in the West and […]

This 2-bedroom at 1510 N. Dearborn Parkway in Gold Coast came on the market in December 2019. Built in 1900, this building actually has 18 units and an elevator. While it has the vintage charm on the outside, the interior vintage character was stripped out of these units decades ago. This unit, which appears to […]

This 4-bedroom in the Harvard School Condos at 4731 S. Ellis in Kenwood came on the market in January 2020. Sorry I don’t have a picture but the shelter-in-place prohibits me from driving around for non-essential purposes. Built in 1917, the former private school has 5 units, a center courtyard garden and garage parking. I […]

This 3-bedroom in the Illume at 111 S. Peoria in the West Loop came on the market in March 2020. The Illume was built in 2018 and has 79 units and heated garage parking. It is one of the few buildings in the West Loop that also has a full-time doorman. The building sold out […]

This 2-bedroom duplex down at 1760 N. Wells in Old Town just came on the market. This is vintage building but it doesn’t say when it was built. It has 13 units and a common, shared deck. This unit has some vintage features including wainscoting and crown molding. There’s a gas fireplace in the living […]

This 2-bedroom loft in the Lincoln Lofts at 3151 N. Lincoln in Lakeview came on the market in July 2019. We chattered about this loft last August, as it was the first time it had been on the market in 19 years. See our chatter here. We then chattered about it again in November 2019, […]

This 2-bedroom at 562 W. Arlington in East Lincoln Park just came on the market. Built in 1893, this building was converted to condos during the housing bubble years, in 2005, and has 4 units and gated parking. This is the third floor unit and has 2 outdoor spaces,  including a front balcony and a […]