Crib Chatter

This 3-bedroom vintage single family home at 639 W. Schubert in Lincoln Park came on the market in October 2025. Built in 1879, it’s on an extra wide 33×49 lot but is not on an alley so it has no garage or parking. The listing says it is zoned RT4, which is for 2-flats, townhouses, […]

This 3-bedroom house 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. The house is on a 34×60 lot. It […]

This 4-bedroom Romanesque Revival single family home at 2138 W. Caton in the “Bucktown & Wicker Park area” came on the market in June 2025. (Do you think Mario was reading Crib Chatter about this area north of North Avenue and JohnC’s constant posts that it is really Wicker Park???) We chattered about it in […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 3033 N. Seminary in Lakeview came on the market in July 2025. I don’t have a picture of it. Built in 1890, it’s on a standard Chicago lot measuring 25×125 and has a 2-car garage. The listing says it has been “fully rehabbed” and has been “completely updated in […]

This Mediterranean-style brick bungalow with a red clay tile roof at 2530 W. Morse in the Indian Boundary Park neighborhood in West Ridge Manor came on the market in June 2025. I don’t have a picture of this house but I wanted to crib about it anyway. Built in 1924, it’s on a larger than […]

This single family home at 79 E. Cedar in the Gold Coast came on the market in April 2025. Anyone who has walked down Cedar, notices this home. I have taken pictures of it for 15 years. And now we get to see inside. Built in 1884, the listing says it was Bertha Palmer who […]

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 […]