Crib Chatter

This 5 bedroom American four square at 5411 N. Wayne in the historic Lakewood Balmoral neighborhood of Andersonville came on the market in March 2017. The prior listing in 2014 said the house was built in 1909 on an oversized 37.5 x 123 lot. Back in 2014, it was an “investment opportunity” which sold for […]

This 3-bedroom Italian bungalow at 2721 W. Morse in the Indian Boundary Park neighborhood of West Ridge came on the market in May 2017. Built in 1922 on a larger than standard Chicago lot of 37×124, it has the architecture that has made Chicago famous (sorry I don’t have a picture- but I wanted to […]

This 3-bedroom vintage single family home at 2244 N. Bissell in Lincoln Park came on the market in March 2017. Built in 1891, it is on a smaller than standard Chicago lot of 24×74. The house has most of its vintage features including numerous stained glass windows, millwork, pocket doors, mouldings, custom wood floors (check […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 2106 N. Hudson in East Lincoln Park was listed in October 2017 (once again, sorry for the awful picture). If you recall, we chattered about this house in a historic district in November 2017. Back then, it had sold quickly in a sale from the original family for $860,000 […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 1524 W. Oakdale in West Lakeview recently came on the market. If this house looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it the last time it came on the market, in 2013. See our extensive chatter about it here (especially The Groove’s comments about paying $800,000 for this property). […]

This 7-bedroom Queen Anne Victorian at 1904 W. Patterson in North Center has been on and off the market since April 2015. We last chattered about it in 2016 when the sales price was much higher. Back then, some of you saw this as a possible Bed and Breakfast and didn’t think the price was […]

This 6-bedroom custom single family home at 550 W. Oakdale in East Lakeview first came on the market in May 2010. If it looks familiar, that’s because we’ve chattered about it twice before, with the last time in March 2013. Back then, it was listed for over $3 million and we debated whether this East […]

This 4-bedroom single family house at 4033 N. Laramie in Portage Park came on the market in February. (Photo courtesy of Icarus.) It’s not your standard single family home, however, as it really has an in-law unit in the lower level, complete with its own separate entrance, kitchen, and family room. The two units share […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 3220 N. New England in the Schorsch Village neighborhood of Dunning came on the market in November 2017. Schorsch Village is a west side neighborhood of single family homes built from the late 1920s to the 1950s. The homes built in the 1930s and 1940s were mostly English bungalows […]

This 6-bedroom home at 924 N. Clark in the Gold Coast has been on and off the market since April 2015. (Sorry- I don’t have a good picture of this house.) It’s been written up by the media because at one point in 2015 it was listed for $15 million, which puts it among the […]