Crib Chatter

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom landmark greystone at 2823 N. Pine Grove in Lakeview in August 2011. See our prior chatter here. No surprise, but back in August some of you felt like the list price was too high. You felt you would need to get it much cheaper in order to do the […]

This unique 4-bedroom mansion plus coach house at 602 E. 112th Street in the Pullman Historic District came on the market in September 2011. At 3781 square feet, it is one of the largest properties in the historic district and is in a prime location, near Arcade Park and across from Greenstone Church. Built in 1882, […]

We’ve chattered about this 4-bedroom Queen Anne at 6239 N. Lundy in the Old Edgebrook neighborhood of Forest Glen several times in the 21 months it has been on the market. See our July 2011 chatter here. Since our last chatter in July 2011, it has again been reduced, this time another $60,000, to $799,000. Many of […]

We recently chattered about the listing of the Theurer-Wrigley Mansion at 2466 N. Lakeview in Lincoln Park and several people mentioned the possibility of the house being split into condos because it might have a better chance of selling. See that chatter here. That is apparently exactly what has happened to the Meeker Mansion at 3030 N. Lake Shore […]

The Theurrer-Wrigley House at 2466 N. Lakeview in Lincoln Park just came on the market. Located directly on Lincoln Park on the corner of Lakeview and Arlington, the mansion was built in 1894 for brewery baron Joseph Theurer in the Italian Renaissance style. According to Wikipedia, he sold it to the Wrigley family in 1911 but they largely […]

The Claude Seymour House, a 6-bedroom historic mansion at 817 W. Hutchinson in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown returned to the market recently after briefly being listed last March. Originally listed for just 2 weeks in March 2011 at $5.195 million, it came back on the market reduced to $4.995 million. The Elite Street […]

This 3-bedroom Italianate mansion at 3558 S. Artesian in McKinley Park has been on the market since June 2010. In that time it has been reduced $150,900 to $199,000. Built in 1875, it was the mansion for the Chicago based agent of DuPont gunpowder. The house apparently has been moved a block and a half […]

In honor of the debut of the new television show called “The Playboy Club” on Monday (which actually is being filmed in Chicago) and that Playboy Magazine has decided to charge 60 cents for its October issue as it did in October 1960, just one year after Hugh Hefner bought the Playboy Mansion – I present […]

This 4-bedroom vintage home at 3625 N. Springfield in The Villa neighborhood of Irving Park recently came on the market. Many of you have probably seen comments in some threads (especially by Homedelete) referencing “the villa”. It is a landmark historic district established in 1907 just north of Addison and east of Pulaski in Irving Park. […]

We last chattered about this famous 5-bedroom contemporary at 1328 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast in December 2010. See our prior chatter here. Since then, the house has been reduced $351,000 and is now listed $231,000 under the 2006 purchase price. Built in 1938, the house, known as the Florsheim Mansion, was designed […]