Crib Chatter

This 3-bedroom single family home known as the “Yellow House” at 314 W. Menomonee in Old Town came on the market in February 2025. Built in 1875, it is a landmarked home in the Old Town Triangle historic district with brick sidewalks out front and a white picket fence. Built on a 34×60 lot, it […]

This 1-bedroom single family home at at 1684 N. Ada in West Lincoln Park came on the market in March 2025. (Sorry, I don’t have a picture) Built in 1885, this 3500 square foot former factory was converted into a single family home on a 82×41 lot. It’s called the Charcoal Factory and was available […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 3424 N. Greenview in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview came on the market in October 2024. Built in 2006, it is a custom built solid brick home with 7209 square feet. The house is on an extra wide Chicago lot measuring 37.5 x 124. It has a 3 1/2 […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1524 N. Astor in the Gold Coast came on the market in January 2024. But many of you will remember it from our last chatter in February 2021. Back then, most of you focused on how high the taxes were. See the chatter here. If you recall, it was […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 401 W. Dickens in East Lincoln Park came on the market in June 2024. For anyone who has walked down this block, this is a very distinctive home on a corner lot on the corner of Sedgwick and Dickens. There are trees which cover the front of the house […]

This 5-bedroom vintage home at 1520 N. Dearborn Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in September 2023. Built in 1898, it’s on a 22×149 lot. It has an attached 3-car heated garage. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it in 2019. Back then, it was listed at $4.95 million. […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 1225 W. George in Lakeview originally came on the market in April 2023. We have chattered about this home several times, including last year. You can see that chatter here. If you recall, the base of this home is an old Culinary Foods Inc. warehouse. It was transformed into […]

This 4-bedroom vintage greystone at 456 W. Berry in East Lakeview came on the market in May 2024. Built in 1906, the house is on a bigger than standard lot measuring 35×178. It has a side drive that leads to a 2-car brick garage. The listing says the side drive can support guest parking. The […]

This 6-bedroom vintage greystone at 538 W. Deming Place in Lincoln Park came on the market in January 2024. Built in 1889, it is on an oversized Chicago lot measuring 27×190. It has a heated 2.5 car garage and both a true front, and back, yard. If it looks familiar, that is because we chattered […]

The Claude Seymour House at 817 W. Hutchinson in the Buena Park neighborhood in Uptown has returned to the market in March 2024, but is now owned by the bank. We have chattered about this 6-bedroom home numerous times over the years, but the last time was in 2020 when it was a short sale. […]