Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom in The Carlyle at 1040 N. Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast recently came on the market. The Carlyle was built in 1964 and has 128 units. It’s a full service building overlooking the Lake with doormen, an exercise room and an indoor rooftop pool. This unit on the 27th floor has […]

This 1-bedroom in Astor Tower at 1300 N. Astor in the Gold Coast recently came on the market. The listing says this is a designer-owned corner unit. It has new porcelain tile throughout. And instead of ripping out the original 1960s kitchen, this home owner chose to restore it instead. Yes, those are yellow mid-century modern […]

This 2-bedroom top floor unit at 1348 W. Diversey in Lakeview came on the market in June 2017. (It’s the one on the right in the picture above.) We chattered about this building, and its sister building next door, back in 2012 when they were under construction. See our chatter here. Back then, the market […]

This 3-bedroom penthouse at 1342 W. Belmont in West Lakeview recently came on the market. This is a new construction 6-unit building with an elevator and 1-car parking per unit. The building also has a heated front sidewalk and security cameras throughout. The units have 10-foot ceilings, heated floors and large front-facing terraces. The kitchens […]

This 2-bedroom duplex in The Churchill at 1255 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in June 2016. The listing says this vintage unit has been renovated. The eat-in kitchen has white cabinets, white appliances and stone counter tops. The 3 bathrooms are custom with marble counter tops and heated flooring. […]

This 2-bedroom in 208 W. Washington in the Loop just came on the market (sorry for the bad picture of the building above. I didn’t realize how crappy it was!) This building was converted into condos in 2002 so the original finishes are 15 years old. The listing for this unit describes its complete renovation. The […]

This 2-bedroom duplex up penthouse at 110 N. Peoria in the West Loop recently came on the market. It’s a 2125 square foot authentic loft with exposed brick walls, soaring ceilings with steal beams and skylights. Both bedrooms are on the second floor and have en suite baths. There’s a half bath on the main […]

This 2-bedroom in the Beacon Lofts at 203 S. Sangamon in the West Loop came on the market on September 5. The Beacon Lofts was converted in 1998. I believe all 48 units are duplex up units. There’s an outdoor parking lot but some lofts also have indoor parking. It’s a duplex up south facing […]

This 2-bedroom in the Marshall Field Junior Mansion at 1919 S. Prairie in the Prairie Historic District in the South Loop came on the market in March 2017. This mansion was built in 1890 and was converted to 6 condos in 2006 at the height of the old housing boom, when there was new construction […]

This 4-bedroom townhouse in the Pasta Factory at 2334 W. Polk in Tri-Taylor just came on the market. It would take a real dedicated reader to recognize it, though, as it appeared on Crib Chatter all the way back in December 2007 not long after the site was launched. No one commented on it. Ha! […]