Dennis Rodkin
Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago, IL, United States
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Kellogg CEO sells Lincoln Park house for $6.2 million
Steve Cahillane, who will be CEO of the largest of three companies emerging from the planned breakup of Kellogg next year, bought the mansion in 2018. → Read More
Chicago gets a full year of double-digit home value growth
April marked the 12th consecutive month of growth of 10% or more. → Read More
No, those aren’t the gardens of Versailles. It's a Glencoe mansion.
Take a photo tour of the property coming on the market at just over $7.5 million. → Read More
What slowdown? Home prices hit 11th month of double-digit price increases.
The Chicago area’s home prices rose strongly again in March, despite weakness in the city. → Read More
Duracell CEO sells condo overlooking Grant Park
Thom Lachman, who moved the company's CEO suite from Connecticut to Chicago, has sold the Randolph Street condominium he owned with his wife. → Read More
Georgian manor in Glen Ellyn for sale for $2.1 million
"Commanding" from the outside but "cozy" inside, this six-bedroom home built in 2002 on a little over half an acre is $2.1 million. Take a photo tour. → Read More
Former General Dynamics CEO sells in Lake Forest for $4.8 million
It's the 24th home in the Chicago area to sell for $4 million or more so far this year, a pace in step with last year's record-busting year of upper-end sales. → Read More
Home that helped women in Great Migration could be landmarked
The Phyllis Wheatley house offered not only shelter, but also training in social and economic skills to young Black women for about half a century. → Read More
City extends anti-gentrification surcharge on demolitions
Demolitions of residential property in Pilsen and around the western end of the 606 will be subject to a $15,000 surcharge for two more years. → Read More
Jim Belushi buys Lake Shore Drive co-op
The actor and cannabis farmer paid about $1.92 million for the Gold Coast unit shortly after selling his Los Angeles mansion for $30 million. → Read More
Here’s the highest-priced sale so far at the new St. Regis tower
The 80th-floor unit went for nearly $8.85 million, and more like it may be on the way. The developers have six units at higher prices under contract. → Read More
How one town created its own building boom
A DIY development strategy works for Bellwood. → Read More
Uptown is now a million-dollar house market
Uptown "is finally getting the attention it deserves” from high-end homebuyers, said an agent who lives in the neighborhood. → Read More
Housing market only feels slower because it's been so fast
The latest figures show homes are still selling in near-record numbers. → Read More
House for sale in rare enclave developed by a woman in 1880s
Rosalie Buckingham, a cousin of the famous fountain's namesake, developed the planned community, Rosalie Villas, in Hyde Park when she was in her 20s. → Read More
A luxury condo tower with space to jam, without bugging the neighbors
Cirrus, a Lakeshore East residential building opening in March, offers musicians a chance to rock out at home. One buyer says he's getting his band back together when he moves in. → Read More
A run of double-digit home price hikes isn't done yet
The housing boom delivered a seventh month of double-digit price increases in the Chicago area in November. → Read More
In booming housing market, new agents flock to the biz
Drawn by the dynamism of the real estate market during an otherwise gloomy economic time, thousands have joined the business. → Read More
New homes are transforming this historic neighborhood
How Bronzeville, the onetime mecca of Black Chicago, became the city's hottest new-home market. → Read More
Demolition begins at eyesore mansion NBA player lost in foreclosure
Ken Norman, who reportedly earned over $21 million with the Clippers, Bucks and Hawks, lost the Flossmoor mansion to Deutsche Bank in 2015. → Read More