Crib Chatter

This 12-bedroom Gold Coast mansion at 1547 N. Dearborn Parkway was originally listed in May 2013. The Romanesque-style house was built in 1891 by architect August Fielder and is on an oversized 82.5×133 lot. It has an 8-car garage and central air. The house has some of the original stained glass, moldings and carvings. It has 9 […]

This 3-bedroom arts & crafts single family home at 4524 N. Mozart in Ravenswood Manor came on the market in May 2015. The listing says it has had a “total 2010 renovation” but it still retains much of its original vintage character, including woodwork, built-ins and crown molding. The kitchen has been expanded and has […]

This 4-bedroom contemporary single family home at 4511 N. Wolcott in Lincoln Square just came on the market. If it looks familiar it’s because we chattered about it in February 2013 when it was first on the market as a new construction house. We debated the noise level of having the El right behind the […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 1542 W. Nelson in Lakeview came on the market in June 2015. Built in 2011 on an oversized lot measuring 35.8 x 124, it has 6600 square feet and an attached 3-car garage. The house has 4 fireplaces and built-in bookcases as well as multiple terraces 4 of the […]

This 3-bedroom home at 3012 S. Emerald in Bridgeport just came on the market. (Sorry, I don’t have a picture in my vast collection of photos.) The house was built in 1974 on a 120×25 lot. But what sets it apart is a glass enclosed 10×18 indoor pool in a great room attached to the back […]

This 3-bedroom English brick single family home at 2925 W. Giddings in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood of Albany Park has been on the market since May 2015. Like many homes in this neighborhood of winding streets, it is built on an irregular lot measuring 30x66x46x11x125. It is just a half a block to the Chicago River […]

This 3-bedroom vintage Spanish Mediterranean single family home at 5749 N. Manton in Jefferson Park came on the market in April 2015. What I love about Crib Chatter is that we continually see the same properties come on the market over and over again. We’ve actually chattered about this house twice before. Once in 2010- […]

This vintage 3-bedroom single family home at 1836 N. Lincoln Park West in Old Town recently came on the market. We last chattered about it two years ago, when it came on the market after a renovation. See our 2013 chatter here. If you recall, it has an old pedigree. It was built in 1876 […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 1345 W. Wolfram in West Lakeview just came on the market. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it in September 2013. See that chatter here. If you recall, it’s on a rare double lot measuring 52×124.6 which allows it to have that other rare city feature: the 5 […]

This 5-bedroom Victorian Italianate single family home at 3945 N. Tripp in Old Irving Park came on the market in May 2014. But it may look familiar to many of you. It has been on and off the market since August 2007. We last chattered about it in June 2011. You can see that chatter here. Built […]