Deal or No Deal - Chicago Real Estate Auction - 11/21/09 10:14 AM
The auction team came last week.
Mostly men, mainly white. Their hands showed the markings of occasional manicures. And they had a propensity to stand with feet splayed, arms crossed, hooking their thumbs in the crook of the opposing arm. Chewing mints as they nodded, always looking away from the person with whom they spoke.
Where they came from, I cannot say. The reason for their arrival was to try to sell off 41 Chicago condo homes at 1400 South Michigan Avenue.
At the end of the day last Sunday, they had succeeded, tickling 40+ condo homes into the sold column … (2 comments)

Ebert's Half Star Reviews Offered Real Chicago Humor - 11/20/09 03:14 PM
Back in the day the best reads in the Chicago papers came on Thursdays or Fridays when Roger Ebert was presented with a really bad movie. One of the finest of film reviewers in America, Ebert was at his best (and funniest) when he had a chance to sharpen his pencil and scribble notes about the whys and wherefores of some particularly smelly film he had witnessed that week.
I thought of Roger earlier today as I read a review in the New York Times about Sandra Bullock's latest cinematic expression.
Since The Times doesn't give its readers a head start … (0 comments)

There are No Accidents - Chicago's Plummeting Hotel Condo Market - 11/16/09 11:53 PM
Synchronicity?
When apparently unrelated things occur. But when all is said and done it turns out that the things weren't all that unrelated after all.
I thought of synchronicity today. It turns out The Elysian in Chicago has decided to rescind contracts for 130 or so hotel condos at the property at 11 E Walton. And like its mythic namesake, one of Chicago's most expensive condo buildings is vanquishing 130 hotel condos like so many perished heroes to wander the Elysian Fields.
I wouldn't think the progenitors of this upper end Gold Coast project had synchronicity in mind when they dubbed … (0 comments)

 

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