January 2024 Newsletter
WIN: Former Wicker Park Walgreens’ in Noel State Bank To Become a Barnes & Noble Bookstore
"Barnes & Noble plans to open four stores this summer in the Chicago area, including in Wicker Park and Lincoln Park, as well as...
LOSS: Candy Department Closed in Marshall Field’s Building on State Street
"Macy’s on State Street closed its decades-old basement candy counter last week. But the department store will continue selling sweets, including Frango chocolates, the...
OPINION: The long decline of Macy’s in Chicago, now a shell of a once-great department store
"So Macy’s has closed the candy department in its State Street flagship. You could see it coming. For a long time, the shelves have...
IN MEMORIAM: David Bahlman, Preservationist
"In 2004, months after orchestrating the audacious $7.5 million bid to purchase and preserve Mies van der Rohe’s famed Farnsworth House, David Bahlman, who...
IN MEMORIAM: Richard Hunt, Chicago Sculptor
"Abstract sculptor Richard Hunt, a lifelong Chicagoan who in 1971 became the first African American artist to receive a solo retrospective at New York’s...
BUYER WANTED: Landmarked George W. Maher Designed Seymour House Listed For Sale
"Thirteen years after it first went up for sale and now a lender-owned foreclosure, a Hutchinson Street mansion had a near miss with selling...
BUYER WANTED: Ernest Hemingway’s Chicago Home at 1239 N. Dearborn Street Listed for Sale
"A Chicago brownstone where an unknown Ernest Hemingway bided his time before setting off to Paris is now for sale for $2 million."Hemingway lived...
BUYER WANTED: Art Moderne William J. Mathis Listed for Sale
"Located in the heart of Beverly Hills neighborhood is this beautiful gem and striking survivor of an early modernist age home (The Art Moderne)....
BUYER WANTED: The John Wingert House from 1854, One of Chicago’s Oldest Houses, Listed for Sale
"One of Chicago’s oldest houses, a landmark 1850s farmhouse in Norwood Park that was extensively damaged by a fire in 2021, is for sale...