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This 7-bedroom single family home at 4130 N. Greenview in the Graceland West neighborhood of Lakeview came on the market in February 2021. Built in 2016, the listing says it’s on 5 lots measuring 100 x 161 and took 5 years to acquire the land. The 11,000 square foot home sits on one 50 x […]

This 3-bedroom worker’s cottage at 2110 N. Hoyne in Bucktown just came on the market. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it all the way back in 2009. Yes, Homedelete was complaining about the sales price, even in 2009. See our chatter here. Built in 1891, this worker’s cottage is all brick […]

This 4-bedroom red brick Queen Anne at 1505 W. Jackson in the Jackson Boulevard historic district in the Near West Side came on the market in March 2021. Built in 1883, it’s on a larger than standard Chicago lot measuring 25 x 188. It has a 2-car garage. This home has many of its original […]

This 7-bedroom single family home at 587 W. Hawthorne Place in East Lakeview came on the market in June 2020. Built in 1906, it’s on an oversized 45 x 111 lot with a gated driveway on the side of the house that the listing says can fit 3 cars. There’s no garage. It has the […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 2902 N. Burling in Lakeview came on the market in August 2020. Built in 2019, this modern, contemporary home is on a double lot measuring 52×140. The house has a brick, stucco, stone and limestone exterior and a professionally landscaped lot including mature trees. It has heated double connected […]

This 5-bedroom Prairie-style single family home at 1526 N. Wieland in Old Town came on the market in September 2020. Built in 1987 in the Prairie style, the listing says it was modeled on the Glessner House. It’s on a wider than normal Chicago lot measuring 50×102 and has a rare front facing 2-car garage […]

This 4-bedroom vintage brick bungalow at 7609 S. Clyde in the South Shore came on the market in February 2021. Built in 1921 on a larger than standard Chicago lot of 30×125, it has a 2-car garage. The house went into foreclosure after the housing bubble and was bank owned in 2014. It was updated […]

This 6-bedroom French Gothic mansion at 1449 N. Astor in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2020. Built in 1911, the house is all limestone and has 5-levels on a 33×125 lot. It has a 2.5 car attached garage. The house also has an elevator. The listing says it has been “renovated […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 1318 N. Astor (the house on the right in the picture above, although the house on the left, 1316 N Astor, is also on the market) came on the market in July 2020. Built in 1889, it’s on an irregular lot measuring 20.9 x 131.8 x 20.7 x 128.7. […]

This 6-bedroom vintage mansion at 1515 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in November 2020. Built in 1898, the house is on a larger than standard 30×130 lot and has a 1-car garage. It also has an elevator. The listing says it has gone through a multi-year renovation. Yet it […]