Under Contract in a Day: A Rehabbed 4-Bedroom SFH at 6524 S. Champlain in Woodlawn
This 4-bedroom single family home at 6524 S. Champlain in Woodlawn just came on the market.
I was all ready to crib about it even without having a picture but it went under contract within a day of the listing.
Even with the coronavirus!
But I’m cribbed about it anyway as it’s an interesting look at what is going on in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
Built in 1968, it’s on a “standard Chicago lot” of 25 x 125 and has 2 parking spaces .
The listing says it has been “completely rehabbed.”
It has new doors, wainscoting, trim, furnace, air conditioning, windows, electric, and plumbing.
The exterior brick looks to have been painted white (the prior sales pictures are still on Redfin. They’re worth a look.)
The kitchen has new custom white cabinets with a stone counter top and backsplash along with stainless steel appliances.
It even has the super trendy black kitchen sink faucet and what looks like the gray stained floors.
The bathrooms also have on trend white finishes.
Three bedrooms are on the main floor with the fourth bedroom in the lower level, along with a bathroom and a family room with a fireplace.
The listing says its 3 brocks from the University of Chicago (? seems like about 6 blocks), the Cottage Grove CTA Green Line and the new Jewel.
It’s across the street from the Emmett Louis Till Math & Science Academy.
Bought in 2019 from the bank for $26,250, it was listed at $144,000 and is already under contract.
Is Woodlawn about to be the hottest neighborhood in the city?
Bernadeta Szczech at Re/Max 10 has the listing. See the pictures here.
6524 S. Champlain: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1500 square feet
- Sold in April 1986 (no price listed)
- Bank owned in January 2019
- Sold in November 2019 for $26,250 (per Redfin)
- Currently listed “completely rehabbed” for $144,000
- Under contract within a day
- Central Air
- Fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 12×12
- Bedroom #2: 11×11
- Bedroom #3: 11×10
- Bedroom #4: 12×13 (lower level)
- Family room: 13×12 (lower level)
- Kitchen: 11×10 (main level)
- Living room: 12×14 (main level)
- Dining room: 10×12 (main level)
The bars on the basement windows are a nice touch
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“The bars on the basement windows are a nice touch”
there’s million dollar homes in my neighborhood that have bars on their basement windows.
I’d rather go camping with Drew Peterson than live in Woodlawn
I encourage anyone who’s never been down to this area of town to go take a drive through it, along with the Jackson Highlands and south shore. It really deserves better, the bones for an amazing future are all there – beaches, transit, highways, architecture, tree lined streets. There has to be a way to gentrify without displacement of long time residents. The gentrifiers can bring the incomes needed to get the storefronts back open and the long time residents keep the history and character intact. People have no idea how important this area was for the black middle and upper class in the 20th century and now they are moving out, moving up or dying off and the area is in need of new people. Some guy’s basement nightclub was moved from a bungalow here to the Smithsonian in DC as a portrait of an era gone by! https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-mr-muse-bar-smithsonian-20190228-story.html
“there’s million dollar homes in my neighborhood that have bars on their basement windows.”
All the homes in Lincoln Park have bars on their basement windows. Heck some have them on the first floor windows (especially near the front door.)
Most have the special security doors on the back doors too.
Lol!
The bars are pretty much city wide, aren’t they?
I once “heard” a guy trying to break into the basement windows on the 4 flat I lived in in Lakeview. It was only about 11 pm at night. I had my windows open on an upper floor when I started hearing this constant thumping.
We didn’t have bars on those basement windows, but it was the super thick burglar proof glass.
But god bless him, he was trying to “break” it anyway. He tried for about 10 minutes and then gave up.
The next morning, I went out to see if there was any damage and, no, nothing was even broken on the windows. NOTHING.
Lol.
I have a friend who bought in Chatham. House is beautiful and the neighbors are great. Many neighborhoods on the south side have strong block clubs where neighbors work together to improve safety and clean up the area.
My friend works downtown and his husband works at Univ of Chicago. Their commutes are quick, they have a beautiful house close to transportation, a yard for the dog and kids.
“The gentrifiers can bring the incomes needed to get the storefronts back open and the long time residents keep the history and character intact. ”
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And swords will be beaten into plowshares, and the lion will lay down with the lamb.
“And swords will be beaten into plowshares, and the lion will lay down with the lamb.”
Don’t you live in the suburbs johnc? Like Aurora or somewhere?
You have no clue what’s going on in the city.
Do you really think there’s no reason that groups of Woodlawn residents are demanding that Mayor Lightfoot slow down gentrification and provide protection for renters in the neighborhood for nothing?
Oh- and I know a Millennial who just bought in Woodlawn. First home.
Woodlawn and South Shore are where the opportunities are. Great architecture. Near hot Hyde Park. Public transportation. And the Obama Presidential Library.
“Don’t you live in the suburbs johnc? Like Aurora or somewhere?
“You have no clue what’s going on in the city…”
Like the re-definition of Bucktown, that happened about 25 years ago.
“Do you really think there’s no reason that groups of Woodlawn residents are demanding that Mayor Lightfoot slow down gentrification and provide protection for renters in the neighborhood for nothing? ”
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Sabrina, read for comprehension, and then read for context.
Of course there’s reason for groups demanding that gentrification slow down, and residents not be displaced.
But that ain’t gonna happen. Just like swords aren’t going to be beaten into plowshares, and lions aren’t going to lay down with lambs.
And Bucktown ain’t gonna go South of Armitage simply because some real estate shill chicks his/her heels three times.