Crib Chatter

It’s back! We’ve chattered about this house at 3526 N. Marshfield in Lakeview numerous times over the years. The last time was in August 2013. See that chatter here. If you recall, it not only has “ornately carved faces” on the exterior (look closely at the house) but in prior listings it talked about “underground […]

This 4-bedroom bungalow at 5746 N. Virginia in the Peterson Woods neighborhood of West Ridge came on the market in June 2016. Built in 1923 on a 35×119 lot, the back of the house faces Legion Park. Legion Park is on the Chicago River and has nature paths and a children’s park. It has 6 […]

This 5-bedroom single family loft-like home at 1225 W. George in Lakeview came on the market in July 2016. I believe this was an old warehouse as the 1997 seller was Culinary Foods Inc. The listing says it was transformed into a single family home in 1999 by architect Larry Booth and has won architecture […]

This 6-bedroom single family loft-like home at 2436 W. Bloomingdale in Logan Square came on the market in June 2016. It is a former mechanic’s garage and is built on a double lot measuring 48×125. To long time readers, this house would look familiar because we chattered about it several times in 2008. See our […]

This 4-bedroom Queen Anne at 2134 W. Lunt in the West Ridge neighborhood of Rogers Park recently came on the market. Built in 1891, before the area was even part of Chicago, the house is on a double lot measuring 50×171. If you’re not familiar with West Ridge’s history, its one of the older parts […]

This 3-bedroom English single family home at 6644 N. Sioux in Edgebrook recently came on the market. Built in 1931, it is on an extra wide lot measuring 50×118. It has a side driveway with a 2.5 car garage. For those who love turrets (and who doesn’t?), it has a turreted entrance. The listing says […]

This 5-bedroom Victorian at 6084 N. Northcott in Old Norwood Park recently came on the market. For those who don’t know, Norwood Park is in the Northwest part of Chicago, 11 miles from the Loop, with the Old Norwood Park part of the neighborhood located north of the Kennedy expressway. From the Encyclopedia of Chicago: Prior to […]

This 2-bedroom house at 3536 N. Damen in the Roscoe Village neighborhood of North Center came on the market in June 2016. The house is being marketed as a teardown so it’s being sold “as-is.” It’s on a standard Chicago lot measuring 25×125. There are other teardowns with new construction single family homes on this block […]

This 7-bedroom Queen Anne Victorian at 1904 W. Patterson in North Center has been on and off the market since April 2015. Built in 1891 on a 62.5 x 125 corner fenced in lot, it has a large wrap around porch and a 3-car garage. At 8,000 square feet, it has 7 bedrooms on both the […]

This 2-bedroom single family home at 2058 N. Leavitt in Bucktown just came on the market. But some of you remembered it from 2012 (thanks to MatthewLesko), when it was last featured here on Cribchatter. Back in 2012, it was a 3-bedroom but it’s now listed as a 2-bedroom, with a third bedroom in the basement. It was […]