Dennis Rodkin

McMansions, those big homes with grand foyers and cathedral ceilings that proliferated in suburbs across the country in the 1990s and early 2000s, had to have started somewhere.

Car collectors who enjoy taking their toys out for a ride on less-trafficked country roads may soon have a place to store the vehicles, in a garage-condo development that recently got zoning approval from the village of Gilberts.

Actor Macaulay Culkin told fans at a Rosemont Theatre showing of “Home Alone,” the movie that shot him to child stardom, that he thought about buying the Winnetka house that co-starred in the Christmas classic.

New on the market yesterday at nearly $6 million is a high-floor condo in Museum Park that is still unfinished space 15 years after the tower was completed.

The iconic image of the character as a chubby, jolly older man originated in a downtown Chicago office.

The past year's vigor in the Chicago-area residential real estate market might carry it over the new hurdles that have recently been thrown in the path, but it could take some serious lift to get over them.

Andy Weir, the bestselling science fiction novelist whose two biggest titles are “The Martian” and the “Hail Mary Project,” lost more than a million dollars on the sale of a Winnetka mansion.

Colin Cowherd, a top Fox Sports broadcaster, bought a stately home in Winnetka for $4.45 million in December. To continue reading...

Billionaire Florida transplant Ken Griffin, who recently sold two of his four unfinished condo floors on Walton Street to Gov.

A 19th century Catholic school building in Bronzeville that was headed toward demolition and replacement with new apartments has received a reprieve of sorts while the developer tries to re-sell the Oakwood Boulevard site.