Chicago Luxury Home Tour

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Sep 4th 2008 at 4:02PM

Real estate may be sluggish but that hasn't seemed to stop the luxury home tours. For three weekends in September, Sept. 5- 21, Chicago-area real estate gawkers can check out the houses in the 5th annual Chicago Luxury Home Tour. The homes are all new and feature green construction such as asphalt shingle roofs, geo-thermal heating and cooling, radiant in-floor heating and recycled and recyclable materials. Tickets can be bought in advance for $15 at local locations or for $20 at the homes. Or if you aren't in the area, sneak a peek at the photo gallery on the Chicago Home Tour website.

[via Chicago Tribune]

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Mehul Kamdar Sep 4th 2008 5:40PM

If there is anything more ridiculous than the idea of new luxury homes in Chicago, it would be building luxury homes in Afghanistan or in Iraq and expecting people to buy there. The single most valuable property in the area, Lansdowne, was offered for $ 25 million but sold for $ 10 million plus less than the asking price and the place is now going to be converted into some kind of luxury community with multiple homes where the grounds originally housed polo fields. And businesses and malls are closing by the day. Business journals have suggested that United Airlines, one of the city's biggest companies, should close down. Motorola are about to sell thier cell phone business to a Chinese company. Some of the big suburban malls at Randhurst, Lincolnwood and Harlem have more vacant spaces than they have shops. Historical stores like the downtown Carson Piriie Scott store have closed for good and businesses that have been a historical part of this region like Wickes Furniture and Linens N Things are shutting stores one by one. Where is anyone going to buy a luxury property in this dying city?

If it weren't such a sad tale of political fraud in a doomed city, I would be tempted to laugh at the idiocy in building luxury homes in this Detroit of the future.

kenny17995 Sep 4th 2008 6:30PM

that house in the picture is gorgeous. i love the brick and stone exterior and the dark wood garage doors.
very nice!

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