Dennis Rodkin
Residential Real Estate Reporter at Crain's Chicago Business
Contributor at WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL)
I cover residential real estate for @CrainsChicago and do the "What's That Building?" segments on WBEZ.
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1 week ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Dennis Rodkin
Billionaire Ken Griffin completed his sell-off of the top floors at No. 9 Walton yesterday, selling two penthouse floors for a combined $15.9 million. The unfinished 35th floor went for $7.4 million, and the 36th floor, also unfinished, went for $8.5 million. The photo at the top of this story shows part of the 36th-floor unit. The prices are the fourth and fifth highest anyone has paid for a Chicago-area home so far in 2025.
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1 week ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Dennis Rodkin
A 19th-century mansion on Cedar Street, built by the onetime “Queen of Chicago” Bertha Palmer and lavishly restored by its owners of the past 25 years, went up for sale today at $7.9 million.
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1 week ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Dennis Rodkin
In the nearly eight months since a palatial mansion on Burling Street in Lincoln Park sold for $15.25 million—or almost $35 million off its original asking price—the identity of the buyers has been a well-guarded secret, but today the case was broken. David Cocagne, a commercial real estate executive, and his wife, Manassi, are the people who in August bought the 25,000-square-foot mansion built on eight city lots, the Chicago Tribune reports today.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Dennis Rodkin
The Illinois House swiftly passed a bill that would give more firepower to the Lake County school districts that are caught in a dispute over the impact the influential Wirtz family’s proposed Ivanhoe Village development will have on local schools.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Dennis Rodkin
Built in the late 19th century and last sold in the late 20th, the Kenwood home of a couple of medical professionals has many of its original wood, tile and glass details intact behind a rare facade done in the style of 17th-century Amsterdam.
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This nicely rehabbed Astor Street mansion I showed you in Jan sold today for over asking. January: sellers planned to list this spring at $3,375,000. It never listed because buyers contacted the agent, and today bought it for $3,525,000. My Jan story: https://t.co/9SGXcboiSF
Price cut of half a million dollars today on this David Adler design in Lake Forest. A Tommy Hilfiger exec did a big rehab in 2014, listed it August 2023 for < $7 m. Lates price cut takes it to just below $5 m. My Aug 2023 story: https://t.co/VnAAcWevle
Broadcast news legend Walter Jacobson landed a buyer for his Astor Street co-op quickly. Ten days from list to contract (including 1 price cut). https://t.co/zDtmAbP1gS