Where the wealthy live....

WesternburbsTony23 · July 16th, 2007, 11:35 PM

This should be fun, lets say you have a wealthy friend(net worth 5 million +) and he wanted to look at condos downtown and homes in the burbs. Where at downtown would you take him, where at in the burbs. Once again a complete hypothetical, we will say he has a wife and two young kids. If I was a realtor here would be my choices:

City
1. Park Tower-Location, Location, Location!!! Right in front of the old water tower, spectacular views, new(finished around 2000). Everything in front of you.
2. Trump Tower- Hey rent an apartment for a few years, you got the money. Brand new building, right on the Chicago River. The whole river area to grow as well with improvements(dining, retail, etc.)

Suburbs
1. North Shore - Lake Forest, Winnetka, Kenilworth, etc.
2. Evanston/Oak Park - Pay for the space, but what beautiful urban burbs you are in.
3. Hinsdale, Claredon Hills, Burr Ridge - The "northshore" of the western burbs.

So where would you take a person?

BorisMolotov · July 16th, 2007, 11:51 PM

Barrington - all four of them.

FreeRadical · July 16th, 2007, 11:59 PM

VOID

cbotnyse · July 17th, 2007, 01:47 AM

(lets pretend all building u/c are finished)

City: Trump, One Museum Park, Aqua, Palmolive building.

Suburbs: Oak Brook, Orland Park, Burr Ridge. (I hate the north shore)

edsg25 · July 17th, 2007, 02:29 AM

This one is easy....I start downtown on Lake Shore Drive and drive north to where the drive ends at Hollywood and Sheridan Road continues northward and I take Sheridan all the way through from Evanston to Lake Bluff.

How many linear drives in the world (let alone the US) could give you the best of city and suburban living in one incredible trip?

gllt13 · July 17th, 2007, 04:31 AM

what about Naperville??

cbotnyse · July 17th, 2007, 04:32 AM

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what about Naperville??

overrated, IMO.

gllt13 · July 17th, 2007, 04:50 AM

Really? Seemed really nice and expensive everytime I visited family there.

Cloudscraper · July 17th, 2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by edsg25

How many linear drives in the world (let alone the US) could give you the best of city and suburban living in one incredible trip?

Your neighbors over here to the east. In Detroit, Woodward Ave. is the main street of downtown Detroit and offers the best city living (not in any way comparable to Chicago's best city living) and then proceeds north to the super affluent suburbs of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, which could be comparable to Kenilworth and Winnetka.

I have a question related to this thread. If i wanted to see the best, most amazing architectural masterpieces of mansions and estates, what streets in the city would i travel (assuming Lincoln Park?) and in what suburbs are Chicagoland's most amazing (read gigantic) mansions?

cbotnyse · July 17th, 2007, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloudscraper

I have a question related to this thread. If i wanted to see the best, most amazing architectural masterpieces of mansions and estates, what streets in the city would i travel (assuming Lincoln Park?) and in what suburbs are Chicagoland's most amazing (read gigantic) mansions?

Astor St. in the Gold Coast for sure, and heck while your at it, any other street in the gold coast. I cant think of the name of the street in LP (I think its one or two blocks east of Halsted, near Armatage) but there are some mega mansions on that block. I read one guy is building a 40 million dollar mansion on something like 8 full lots.

Also the South Loop along Prairie Street has some of Chicago's original mansions. That street was the first Gold Coast in the city before moving north.

And if you want to see some cool mansions in the suburbs travel to Oak Park. I think it has the largest collection of original Frank Lloyd Wright mansions anywhere, and they are stunning! His original home and studio is there and they have tours of that and walking tours of the neighborhood. very cool stuff.

The Urban Politician · July 17th, 2007, 05:32 PM

I like a lot of those rows of greystones in Kenwood.

prelude91 · July 17th, 2007, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by cbotnyse

. I cant think of the name of the street in LP (I think its one or two blocks east of Halsted, near Armatage) but there are some mega mansions on that block. I read one guy is building a 40 million dollar mansion on something like 8 full lots.

1800 - 1900 blocks of Burling

secondcity1 · July 19th, 2007, 01:59 AM

Talking about the Gold Coast area... many mansions on State street (between North & Division) can be listed as architectural masterpieces like the former Playboy mansion, the Modern-art style building with Rounded glass blocks or the 19th-century Romanesque homes.

The 40 million dollar mansion belongs to the guy who owns the Insurance company (forgot the name). I believe he built his home in Lincoln Park.

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Originally Posted by cbotnyse

Astor St. in the Gold Coast for sure, and heck while your at it, any other street in the gold coast. I cant think of the name of the street in LP (I think its one or two blocks east of Halsted, near Armatage) but there are some mega mansions on that block. I read one guy is building a 40 million dollar mansion on something like 8 full lots.

Also the South Loop along Prairie Street has some of Chicago's original mansions. That street was the first Gold Coast in the city before moving north.

And if you want to see some cool mansions in the suburbs travel to Oak Park. I think it has the largest collection of original Frank Lloyd Wright mansions anywhere, and they are stunning! His original home and studio is there and they have tours of that and walking tours of the neighborhood. very cool stuff.

Mr Downtown · July 18th, 2007, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloudscraper

in what suburbs are Chicagoland's most amazing (read gigantic) mansions?

Ones you can see from the street: Lake Forest, with a few in Glencoe and Winnetka. Ones you can't see from the street: Mettawa, Barrington, and Bannockburn/far west Highland Park.

trvlr70 · July 18th, 2007, 10:14 PM

A co-op in a vintage East Lake Shore Drive building is about as good as it gets in the Midwest. But fortuneately, most co-op boards revile the nouveau riche so they tend to locate in the newish N. Michigan Av. towers, such as Water Tower Place, 900 N. Michigan, One Magnificent Mile, etc..

As far as the suburbs are concerned, Winnetka and Lake Forest are the most coveted villages. Between the two of them, they apparently are the most common suburban Chicago addresses in the Social Register.

trvlr70 · July 18th, 2007, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloudscraper

I have a question related to this thread. If i wanted to see the best, most amazing architectural masterpieces of mansions and estates, what streets in the city would i travel (assuming Lincoln Park?) and in what suburbs are Chicagoland's most amazing (read gigantic) mansions?

Begin in north Evanston on Sheridan Rd. and drive north. Look to the right.

prelude91 · July 18th, 2007, 10:47 PM

They might not be as posh as the north shore, but as far as square footage goes, Burr Ridge and Oak Brook are right up there

edsg25 · August 5th, 2007, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by trvlr70

Begin in north Evanston on Sheridan Rd. and drive north. Look to the right.

trvir, the left ain't too shabby either! (the vast majority of Sheridan Road doesn't even have homes with lakefront footage.)

edsg25 · August 4th, 2007, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloudscraper

Your neighbors over here to the east. In Detroit, Woodward Ave. is the main street of downtown Detroit and offers the best city living (not in any way comparable to Chicago's best city living) and then proceeds north to the super affluent suburbs of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, which could be comparable to Kenilworth and Winnetka.

I have a question related to this thread. If i wanted to see the best, most amazing architectural masterpieces of mansions and estates, what streets in the city would i travel (assuming Lincoln Park?) and in what suburbs are Chicagoland's most amazing (read gigantic) mansions?

Clouscraper, I realize what you are saying about Detroit, but you may have missed the point on my post. The Downtown trip to Lake Bluff following LSD and Sheridan Road is basically an uninterupted stretch of wealth. Truly there are only 2 gaps on the trip (Rogers Park on the city's far North Side and Highwood on Sheridan Road) and nothing is wrong with either; they just aren't as sublime as the rest of the trip. So, yes, I'd say that the length of that ride is pretty extraordinanry. The only common stretch of linear real estate that I think is like this would be Florida's Gold Coast from Miami Beach to Palm Beach.

ardecila · July 17th, 2007, 09:58 AM

Hmm... I was under the impression that Naperville has a fairly good mix of incomes... After all, it is Illinois' 4th-largest city.

July 16th, 2007, 11:35 PM	#1
WesternburbsTony23 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 141 Likes (Received): 0	Where the wealthy live.... This should be fun, lets say you have a wealthy friend(net worth 5 million +) and he wanted to look at condos downtown and homes in the burbs. Where at downtown would you take him, where at in the burbs. Once again a complete hypothetical, we will say he has a wife and two young kids. If I was a realtor here would be my choices: City 1. Park Tower-Location, Location, Location!!! Right in front of the old water tower, spectacular views, new(finished around 2000). Everything in front of you. 2. Trump Tower- Hey rent an apartment for a few years, you got the money. Brand new building, right on the Chicago River. The whole river area to grow as well with improvements(dining, retail, etc.) Suburbs 1. North Shore - Lake Forest, Winnetka, Kenilworth, etc. 2. Evanston/Oak Park - Pay for the space, but what beautiful urban burbs you are in. 3. Hinsdale, Claredon Hills, Burr Ridge - The "northshore" of the western burbs. So where would you take a person?

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July 16th, 2007, 11:51 PM	#2
BorisMolotov Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 354 Likes (Received): 0	Barrington - all four of them.

July 17th, 2007, 02:29 AM	#5
edsg25 BANNED Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago Posts: 9,399 Likes (Received): 0	This one is easy....I start downtown on Lake Shore Drive and drive north to where the drive ends at Hollywood and Sheridan Road continues northward and I take Sheridan all the way through from Evanston to Lake Bluff. How many linear drives in the world (let alone the US) could give you the best of city and suburban living in one incredible trip?

July 17th, 2007, 04:31 AM	#6
gllt13 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Fort Wayne IN Posts: 115 Likes (Received): 0	what about Naperville??

July 17th, 2007, 04:50 AM	#8
gllt13 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Fort Wayne IN Posts: 115 Likes (Received): 0	Really? Seemed really nice and expensive everytime I visited family there.

July 18th, 2007, 10:14 PM	#15
trvlr70 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 258 Likes (Received): 0	A co-op in a vintage East Lake Shore Drive building is about as good as it gets in the Midwest. But fortuneately, most co-op boards revile the nouveau riche so they tend to locate in the newish N. Michigan Av. towers, such as Water Tower Place, 900 N. Michigan, One Magnificent Mile, etc.. As far as the suburbs are concerned, Winnetka and Lake Forest are the most coveted villages. Between the two of them, they apparently are the most common suburban Chicago addresses in the Social Register.

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prelude91 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chicago...Soon to be Washington D.C. Posts: 1,253 Likes (Received): 0	They might not be as posh as the north shore, but as far as square footage goes, Burr Ridge and Oak Brook are right up there

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ardecila Jack-Of-All-Trades Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: New Orleans/Chicago Posts: 1,392 Likes (Received): 0	Hmm... I was under the impression that Naperville has a fairly good mix of incomes... After all, it is Illinois' 4th-largest city.