Crib Chatter

This 3-bedroom in 65 E. Goethe in the Gold Coast came on the market originally in May 2023 but it has been on and off the market during that time. It more recently came back on the market in October 2024. 65 E. Goethe was designed by Lucien LaGrange and built in 2001. Yes, it’s […]

This 2-bedroom in Bucktown Commons at 2045 W. Concord Place in Bucktown came on the market in January 2025. Built in 2002, Bucktown Commons has 30 units and attached heated parking. It’s an elevator building but it doesn’t have any amenities. The listing says this corner unit is the largest tier in the building at […]

This 3-bedroom in 345 W. Fullerton Parkway in Lincoln Park came on the market in January 2025. Built in 1972, these two buildings were designed by well-known Chicago modernist architect Harry Weese. Apparently his mother and sister lived in the west tower when it was apartments. The building was converted into 216 condos in 1990. […]

This 2-bedroom loft in River North Commons at 520 W. Huron in River North came on the market in January 2025. Built in 1912, River North Commons has 197 units and attached garage parking. It was converted into lofts in 2000. It has 24-hour doorstaff, on-site management, a bike room and an exercise room. This […]

This vintage 3-bedroom row house at 554 W. Fullerton Parkway in Lincoln Park came on the market in January 2025. If it looks familiar, that’s because we last chattered about it in 2023 and wondered if the 7% mortgage rates would impact the sale. See our 2023 chatter here. If you remember, it was built […]

This 2-bedroom corner loft in the Capitol Hill Lofts at 625 W. Jackson in West Loop Gate came on the market in December 2024. Built in 1918, it used to house several small manufacturing companies including a hat maker, a printer,  and Uneeda Vacuum Company. It was converted into 90 loft condos in 2000. It […]

This 4-bedroom vintage co-op at 399 W. Fullerton in Lincoln Park came on the market in October 2024. Built in 1926-27 by McNally & Quinn, according to Chicago Apartments, it’s in the French Renaissance style. It’s an exclusive building with just 2 units per floor and just 32 units in the 17 story building. It’s also […]

This 3-bedroom Prairie Terrace townhouse at 1328 S. Federal in Dearborn Park II in the South Loop came on the market in November 2024. Prairie Terrace was built in 1991 and has 16 townhouses with attached 1-car garages. The townhomes face a shared, landscaped courtyard. The listing says this townhouse was “completely rehabbed” in 2019. […]

This 4 bedroom in Contemporaine at 201 W. Grand in River North came on the market in November 2024. Contemporaine was built in 2004 and has just 28 units. It has an attached parking garage but that is its only amenity. It does not have door staff. The building has won architecture awards and has […]

This 3-bedroom in the Park Tower at 5415 N. Sheridan Road in Edgewater came on the market in September 2024. I thought I had my own picture of this building, but I apparently still do not. The Park Tower was built in 1973 and has 734 units and attached garage parking. In the 1970s, they […]