Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom duplex up penthouse loft in Bank Note Place at 120 E. Cullerton in the South Loop came on the market in May 2019. Bank Note Place consists of two buildings, the brick former bank at 120 E. Cullerton and a brick building on the base with newer construction on top at 1910 S. […]

This 2-bedroom at 1111 S. Wabash Condos at 1111 S. Wabash in the South Loop came on the market in September 2019. 1111 S. Wabash was built in 2004 and has 247 units and a parking garage. It’s a full amenity building with a pool, doorman and exercise room. This unit was bought in a […]

This 2-bedroom in 1400 Museum Park at 100 E. 14th Street in the South Loop came on the market in March 2019. Built in 2008, at the height of the housing bubble, 1400 Museum Park has 260 units and a parking garage. It’s a full service building with a doorman and pool. We chattered about […]

This 2-bedroom corner loft in the 15th Street Lofts at 1503 S. State in the South Loop just came on the market. (Yes, the picture is from 10 years ago and I need a new one.) This building was constructed in 1895 and converted into loft condos at the height of the boom in 2006. […]

This 2-bedroom duplex loft in Trevi Square at 1439 S. Michigan in the South Loop came on the market in April 2019. Trevi Square was converted into lofts back in 1995-1996. I found this Chicago Tribune article from 1995 discussing all the recent conversions of commercial/historic buildings into residential spaces that year. Hospital to homes. […]

This 2-bedroom in 1400 Museum Park at 100 E. 14th Street in the South Loop recently came on the market. Built in 2008, at the height of the housing bubble, 1400 Museum Park has 260 units and a parking garage. It’s a full service building with a doorman and pool. The listing for this 31st […]

This 1-bedroom in Burnham Park Plaza at 40 E. 9th Street in the South Loop just came on the market. Burnham Park Plaza was converted back in 2000 and has 290 units and parking. It’s a full amenity building with a doorman. This unit has some unique features including angle and curved walls and exposed brick. […]

This 3-bedroom single family home in Dearborn Park II at 44 W. 14th in the South Loop came on the market in July 2018. (The picture above is of several houses in the same subdivision but not necessarily the named property.) Built in 1995, there are smaller and larger single family homes in this subdivision. […]

This 2-bedroom loft in the Chess Lofts at 320 East 21st in the South Loop just came on the market. The Chess Lofts is the old Chess Records Studio building and was converted into lofts at the end of the housing bubble, in 2008. For that reason, many of the units went unsold and/or many of […]

This 3-bedroom townhouse in the Kensington Park II  at 1712 S. Indiana came on the market in May 2018. We’ve actually chattered about this townhouse before, in 2011, when the prior owners were quoted in Money Magazine in an article about the “turnaround” in the housing market nationwide. They sold for just $15,000 off their […]