Movers & Shakers
Former Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels lists his condominium unit in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood for $989K
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 February, 2011, 5:32 am
Check out Bob’s breaking-news alert from the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business website, where Bob broke the story that recently ousted Tribune Co. Chief Executive Randy Michaels had placed his three-bedroom, 31st-floor penthouse condominium unit on the market for $989,000.
Read More >>Designer and talk-show host Nate Berkus lists his condo on Chicago’s Gold Coast for $2.65M
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 February, 2011, 5:29 am
Check out Bob’s breaking-news alert on the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business website, where Bob broke the story of designer, talk-show host and Oprah Winfrey pal Nate Berkus listing his condominium unit on Chicago’s Gold Coast for $2,650,000. Bob also notes that Berkus owns a one-bedroom condo unit in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood that he [...]
Read More >>Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly reduces the asking price of his house — just two blocks west of Wrigley Field! — from $2.4M to $2.1M; also, outgoing Northwestern University School of Law Dean David Van Zandt lists his 18-room, 6,300-square-foot mansion in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood for $4.7M and Chicago sports anch
By Bob Goldsborough at 9 December, 2010, 3:49 am
Check out Bob’s recent Elite Street real estate column in the Chicago Tribune, in which Bob reports on former Chicago Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly cutting the asking price of his mansion just two blocks west of Wrigley Field from $2,400,000 to $2,100,000. In addition, the column contains news of Northwestern University School of Law Dean [...]
Read More >>William Blair & Co. Chairman Edgar “Ned” Jannotta sells his mansion in Winnetka, IL for $6.5M after it once had been listed for $10.75M
By Bob Goldsborough at 9 December, 2010, 3:35 am
Check out Bob’s exclusive breaking-news alert on the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business website recently, in which Bob broke the news of Edgar “Ned Jannotta,” the 79-year-old chairman of Chicago investment bank William Blair & Co., selling his mansion in Winnetka, Ill. for $6,500,000 after it once had been on the market for $10,750,000. Jannotta [...]
Read More >>Former WFLD-Ch. 32 anchor David Novarro lists his house in Naperville, IL for $699,999; is on his way to a new job in New York City
By Bob Goldsborough at 9 December, 2010, 3:29 am
Check out Bob’s exclusive breaking-news alert on the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business website recently, in which Bob broke the news about former WFLD-Ch. 32 news anchor David Novarro having his home in Naperville, Ill. on the market for $699,999. Novarro, who just announced that he is taking a new job at WABC-TV in New [...]
Read More >>DePaul University Blue Demons basketball coach Oliver Purnell pays $3.075M for a mansion in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood
By Bob Goldsborough at 9 December, 2010, 3:21 am
Check out Bob’s weekly real estate column in last Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, in which Bob reported on DePaul University Blue Demons head men’s basketball coach Oliver Purnell paying $3,075,000 to buy a mansion in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, near the school. Also featured in the column: the full information in a previous breaking-news alert that [...]
Read More >>JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon sells his mansion on Chicago’s Gold Coast for $6.8M
By Bob Goldsborough at 27 October, 2010, 8:40 pm
Check out Bob’s breaking-news alert on the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business site today about JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon selling his eight-bedroom, 13,500-square-foot mansion on Chicago’s Gold Coast for $6,800,000. Dimon first had listed the mansion for $13,500,000 in 2007. He later reduced its asking price to $10.5 million and then to [...]
Read More >>Outgoing Chicago Blackhawks goalie Cristobal Huet lists his 5BR, four-level condo in a high-rise in Chicago's River North neighborhood for $3M
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 September, 2010, 11:18 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly real estate column from the Chicago Tribune that will run tomorrow, Sunday, September 26, in which Bob breaks the news of soon-to-be-former Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Cristobal Huet placing his five-bedroom, four-level condominium unit in the Millennium Centre high-rise in Chicago’s River North neighborhood on the market for exactly $3,000,000. Also featured: [...]
Read More >>Common puts Chicago condo unit up for rent, historic mansion in Glen Ellyn, IL available for $1.799M, vintage co-op on Chicago's Gold Coast that industrialist Brooks McCormick owned until his death sold by his estate for $4M
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 September, 2010, 11:10 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly real estate column in the Chicago Tribune from this past Sunday. The column is led by Bob’s exclusive — previously written about on this blog when the Tribune first published the item online item in the middle of the previous week — about rapper and actor Common placing a 1,248-square-foot condo [...]
Read More >>Retired Chicago White Sox slugger Dan Pasqua lists his house in Orland Park, IL for $1.595M
By Bob Goldsborough at 14 September, 2010, 12:09 am
Check out Bob’s weekly real estate column from yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, in which he wrote about retired Chicago White Sox slugger Dan Pasqua having his 17-room, 9,554-square-foot mansion in Orland Park, Ill. on the market for $1,595,000. Also featured: Bob writes about the exclusive story that he broke more than a week earlier, about JP [...]
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