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  This 2-bedroom loft in the Franklin Building at 720 S. Dearborn in Printers Row came on the market in April 2025. Built in 1916, the Franklin Building was converted to loft condos in the 1980s. It has 64 units. There is no parking with the building and no door staff or other amenities. The […]

This 3-bedroom loft in The Donohue at 711 S. Dearborn in Printers Row came on the market in August 2024. Built in 1886, The Donohue is an authentic brick and timber loft building that has 98 units. One part of the building has timber ceilings and the other has concrete. It was the first industrial […]

This 3-bedroom penthouse loft in Folio Square at 124 W. Polk in Printer’s Row came on the market in August 2024. Built in 1910, the building was converted into loft condominiums in 1994. Folio Square has 66 units. It has an exercise room, laundry room, shared rooftop deck (? this deck in the pictures is […]

This 2-bedroom duplex loft in The Donohue at 711 S. Dearborn in Printers Row came on the market in May 2024. Built in 1886, The Donohue is an authentic brick and timber loft building that has 98 units. One part of the building has timber ceilings and the other has concrete. It has an elevator […]

This 2-bedroom in the Harrison Street Lofts at 547 S. Clark in Printers Row originally came on the market in November 2023. It was removed in mid-December and then relisted on December 30. Harrison Street Lofts is an industrial building which was converted into lofts in 1998. The top floors were added at that time. […]

This 2-bedroom penthouse triplex loft in Market Square Lofts at 161 W. Harrison in Printer’s Row came on the market in May 2023. I don’t have a picture of this building but it’s the short brick building next to the Vetro in the picture above. Built in 1905 as the Patton Building, the 12 story […]

This 2-bedroom in The Donohue Annex at 727 S. Dearborn came on the market in April 2023. The original portion of The Donohue was built in 1883 and it was the first printer building in the neighborhood. The Annex, at 727 S. Dearborn, was added in 1913. It was one of the first loft buildings […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 747 S. Dearborn in Printers Row came on the market in November 2022. Built in 2019, it was designed and constructed by Filoramo Talsma Architecture on a 50×70 lot across from Dearborn Station. The listing says: “The exterior finds definition from masonry construction and a steel-and-terra cotta sunscreen by […]

Most of the new construction in Chicago residential high rises in 2022 are in apartments. But there are a handful of new construction condos including The Reed at Southbank at 234 W. Polk in Printers Row (or is it now called Southbank?) “Southbank” is a new community on the South Branch of the Chicago River […]

This 1-bedroom in The Peterson Lofts at 523 S. Plymouth in Printers Row came on the market in November 2021. The Peterson Lofts were built in 1911 and converted to loft condos in 1995. The building has 49 units and some deeded heated garage spaces in the building. It has an on-site gym and a […]