If you like what she did with the rehab of the Old Post Office, take a look at her house.

Sheryl Schulze, a principal at Gensler architecture firm, designed her West Town home in 2015. Now putting up for sale at just under $1.2 m.

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The Kenilworth house where Steve Martin’s character lived in the movie “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” a classic Georgian that he brought John Candy’s lonely character home to for a family Thanksgiving, is for sale at a little under $2.65 m

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Owners of 2 dozen lakefront homes in Winnetka sued their village today, claiming a new lakefront protection ordinance will drain millions of dollars out of their property value.

They had threatened this suit if the ordinance passed in Feb + here it is.

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There's a ton of real estate news, including Rockford being named top US housing market, Henry Darger's former home going up for sale, and several other stories that I talked about on the Crain's Chicago Business podcast with Amy Güth.

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A judge dismissed claims that Cook County’s sales of properties for their tax debt are racially discriminatory.

Sales may be disproportionately high in Black, Brown areas, but no evidence that the system 'is operated with a discriminatory motive.'

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The site of a never-built 9-story condo building, proposed in 1998 as 1 of a pair at the decommissioned Army base Fort Sheridan, is for sale.

1 got built. It's in this photo, with their 1-story lobby connector dead-ending where the twin was going to be.

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A judge dismissed claims that Cook County’s sales of properties for their tax debt are racially discriminatory.

Sales may be disproportionately high in Black, Brown areas, but no evidence that the system 'is operated with a discriminatory motive.'

chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

The site of a never-built 9-story condo building, proposed in 1998 as 1 of a pair at the decommissioned Army base Fort Sheridan, is for sale.

1 got built. It's in this photo, with their 1-story lobby connector dead-ending where the twin was going to be.

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The former boarding house where Henry Darger lived for four decades + worked reclusively on his 15,000-page magnum opus, an illustrated novel about seven little girls fighting to free enslaved children, is coming on the market at <$2.6 million.

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Former CEO of Rush Street Gaming, which built Rivers Casino here + others on East Coast, asking more than $7.3 m for the Lincoln Park house he bought from Penny Pritzker in 2007.

Greg Carlin has a new firm that owns casinos in New Hampshire.

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The Lincoln Park home where Henry Darger lived for 4 decades, creating voluminous and strange art that was only discovered after his death, is going up for sale.

Now a single-family home, it was a boarding house when he lived there, 1930s to 1970s.

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This condo in the Palmolive Building, listed last July at $5.5 million, got a new price today.

Now asking $3.7 m. The family bought it in 2007 for $5.39 m. (Owners now deceased.)

My July story:

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Why did Rockford and other small Midwestern cities score high in Realtor.com's latest list of the hottest housing markets?

Along with affordability, it's the climate (no, really).

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Big changes are afoot in the church where city's oldest Black congregation has worshipped since 1890s. Up top, the tin ceiling will shine again + below will be an Underground Railroad museum, sorely needed in Chicago.
We talked about it on Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons.

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Why did Rockford and other small Midwestern cities score high in Realtor.com's latest list of the hottest housing markets?

Along with affordability, it's the climate (no, really).

chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

New Bears QB Caleb Williams said one of his goals is 'immortality.'

Have I got a house idea for him. A Bulls immortal's long-unsold Highland Park mansion is a 12-minute commute to Halas Hall, where the Bears practice in Lake Forest.

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