Check out Bob's breaking-news blast today on the Chicago Tribune's Chicago Breaking Business page, where Bob breaks the story of Bill Rancic, who won the first season of Donald Trump's reality show "The Apprentice," selling his five-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot mansion in Hinsdale, Ill. for $4,600,000 ...

Check out Bob's weekly real estate column in the Chicago Tribune from Sunday, where Bob broke the story of Chicago sportscaster Steve Kashul deciding to stay put in Naperville, Ill. (after flirting with moving to Chicago's northwest suburbs) and paying $385,000 for a four-bedroom, 2,780-square-foot house ...

Check out Bob's recent weekly column in the Chicago Tribune, where he wrote about two Chicago houses with ties to Frank Lloyd Wright recently selling. (second item)

First, a house that Wright designed in the Rogers Park neighborhood recently sold for $1,700,000, while a damaged Gold Coast ...

Check out Bob's breaking-news alert on the Chicago Tribune's Chicago Breaking Business website, where Bob broke the news of R&B star R. Kelly's former mansion in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood getting a price reduction from $3,890,000 to $3,500,000.

Kelly owned the house, which ...

Check out Bob's weekly column in the Chicago Tribune's Real Estate section from last week, where Bob broke the news of former Chicago Blackhawks forward Tuomo Ruutu -- now with the Caroline Hurricanes -- listing his two-bedroom condominium unit in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood for $499,000. The unit ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...