Reimagined 3-Bedroom with Navy Pier Views Reduces to $1.05 Million: 680 N. Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville
This 3-bedroom in 680 N. Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville came on the market in September 2025.
680 N. Lake Shore Drive is a unique building.
According to Wikipedia, it was completed in 1926. It was originally called the American Furniture Mart and was the largest building in the world when finished.
It has a total of 415 units in 3 different condo associations: The Tower, The Lake and the South Residences.
The South Residences has 120 units, the Tower has 131 units, and the Lake, 264. This listing, which appears to be in the Lake building, says the building has 154 units, but that doesn’t add up.
This is a full amenity building with an indoor pool, exercise room and 24-hour door staff. It has attached garage parking.
There is commercial space in the building as well as a shopping concourse with a restaurant, coffee shop, Walgreens, a bank and other amenities.
This unit has been “reimagined” with large scale entertaining in 2900 square feet.
It has over 9 foot ceilings, which were raised during the rehab, and brand new wide plank hardwood floors.
There are east facing arched windows in the living room which overlook Navy Pier. They have solar blinds.
The Chef’s kitchen is a “masterpiece” with white and light wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances including a 36″ Thor Electric stove with an external venting hood and a Samsung refrigerator. It has Taj Quartz countertops with a full backsplash, an 8-foot extra wide waterfall island, a walk-in pantry, and a bar area with a wine fridge.
The primary bedroom has fluted paneled wood walls, a walk-in-closet with a custom build-out and storage with a barn door. It’s ensuite with a “spa-like” bath with a double vanity, soaking tub and separate shower.
It has an arched window that faces the lake. The second bedroom is also ensuite and it too has an arched window with a lake view.
The third bedroom has no windows and is listed as a “bedroom/den” on the floor plan. It does have a closet.
This unit has the features that buyers look for including central air, side-by-side washer/dryer in the unit, and has one prime garage parking space for an additional $60,000.
This building is near the shops and restaurants of Streeterville and Northwestern University Hospital.
Listed in September 2025 for $1.175 million, it went under contract in October. It came back on the market and has reduced several times to $1.05 million.
Buyers love “new.”
Will this go under contract again before Christmas?
Julie Latsko at Compass has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #604: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2900 square feet
- Sold in January 1989 for $286,000
- Sold in October 1992 for $380,000
- Sold in February 1994 for $660,000 (?)
- Sold in April 2024 for $470,000
- Originally listed in September 2025 for $1.175 million
- Under contract in October 2025
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $1.05 million
- Assessments of $2231 a month (includes heat, doorman, cable, exercise room, pool, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $18,043
- Parking, which is on the same floor as the unit, is $60k extra
- Bedroom #1: 13×34
- Bedroom #2: 13×34
- Bedroom #3: 13×12
- Kitchen: 18×17
- Living room: 28×20
- Dining room: 20×14
- Foyer: 6×12
- Laundry: 10×10
Maybe it’s my paranoid nature, but a 170k drop after falling out of contract raises my antenna. Perhaps I’m missing something.
Sorry, bad math on my part, but still a 125k drop.
“ Maybe it’s my paranoid nature, but a 170k drop after falling out of contract raises my antenna. Perhaps I’m missing something.”
Guessing the flipper wants to get his money out before the snow flies
Layout is pretty functional but the computer staging really sucks and shows zero effort
I can’t wait for this all white trend to die a slow painful death
Sales history doesn’t look quite right. I find:
Jan-89 same
Mar-90 $447,500 (Clerk has $895k, having 2x the wrong tax amount)
Oct-93 $390k (Clerk has $380k, bc someone/thing read it wrong)
Feb-94 tax stamps are too light–it’s either $330k or $660k. With the general market at the time, I’d think $330k more likely, but cannot be sure.
To the current unit:
SO MUCH WASTED SPACE!! How do you cram so little into 2900 square feet?? (oh, oops, I mean 2700 square feet; why do realtors LIE when the dquare footage is on the floorplan???)
Nice enough otherwise. Great laundry room, although with that much space dedicated to it (and yes I get it’s also a storage room) I’d want a double stack of w/d. yes, even if living there as a single.
https://youtu.be/NCjjQm3pwRw?si=O9wnERqZrgaFn8f8&t=69
8% Chicago
That’s the median PPSF of sold condos tho, yeah?
Feels like that’s got a ton to do with product mix, both existing and new construction.
product mix
even if Gary is not here – you channel his spirit
(i’m not saying you are wrong
Didn’t this building used to be 666 N.? Hopefully the demons have finally left the building.
These wide-angle AI images are diabolical.