Crib Chatter

This 7 bedroom single family home at 1515 N. North Park in Old Town came on the market in April 2023. I don’t know when this house was built, but it was sometime after 2005. It’s on a double lot measuring 50 x 101.7 and has a unique front facing 2.5 car attached garage with […]

This 5-bedroom Victorian at 4358 S. Berkeley in North Kenwood came on the market in July 2023. (Sorry, I don’t have a picture.) Built in 1890, this house is on a 26×124 corner lot. It doesn’t have a garage but it has a “private side drive” with parking up to 4 cars. This house was […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 625 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park came on the market in April 2023. Built in 2017, it was designed by Liederbach & Graham and has a low maintenance corrugated steel exterior. It is a smaller than standard Chicago lot measuring 17×80 and has a 1-car garage. Some of you […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 550 W. Oakdale in East Lakeview first came on the market in May 2010. We’ve chattered about it several times over the years, with the last time in April 2018. You can read our 2018 chatter here. If you recall, this is a rehabbed greystone which was built in […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 579 W. Hawthorne in East Lakeview came on the market in March 2023. 579 W. Hawthorne was built in 1928 (in 2011 the listing said it was built in 1924) on a rare double lot measuring 50×130. It has a front facing 2-car garage and a brick paver driveway, […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 747 S. Dearborn in Printers Row came on the market in November 2022. Built in 2019, it was designed and constructed by Filoramo Talsma Architecture on a 50×70 lot across from Dearborn Station. The listing says: “The exterior finds definition from masonry construction and a steel-and-terra cotta sunscreen by […]

This 4-bedroom single family home in BaseCamp SFH at 3646 N. Kenneth in Irving Park came on the market in November 2022. (Sorry, I don’t have a picture of this house but I DO have a picture of the Lincoln Park waterfall.) If you recall, BaseCamp SFH was a development of 48 single family homes […]

This 3-bedroom vintage cottage at 1338 W. Grace in Southport came on the market in November 2022. Built in 1891, the house is on a smaller than standard lot measuring 58×40. It has no back alley but instead, has a side driveway which is accessed from the street. If this house looks familiar, that’s because […]

This vintage single family home at 1457 W. Addison in Southport came on the market in September 2022. Built in 1901, this single family home is on a larger than standard corner lot of 41×134. It has 6,000 square feet and a 2-car garage. If the house looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it […]

This 5-bedroom contemporary single family home at 54 E. Scott in the Gold Coast came on the market in April 2022. Built in 2010, it’s on a 45×145 lot and has a 5-car garage with a gated driveway. It has an elevator. The listing says it was the first LEED Gold certified home in Illinois. […]