Some suburb pics (56K BEWARE!) (Chicago, Joliet: mcmansions, condominium, hotel)

[Nysee53]

Sure I can take photos of Tangley Oaks the next time I go to Lake Bluff. Anthera, would like me to make a correction. The photo of the Corner Bakery is not actually within Renaissance Place. It is across the street, so it is actually independent, but it's still kinda a part of it.

[Anthera]

Nysee,

Renissance Place is actually two blocks away. It contains SFA and the movie theatres. Fountain Square is accross from Corner Bakery.

[Nysee53]

I was just their doesn't Renaissance Place cross two blocks? Is the Pottery Barn part of Renaissance Place?

[Anthera]

Pottery Barn is in RP, but Gap Kips, the Ross Drugstore and Walker Brothers are not. Those buildings have been in HP a long time, RP is new. Renaissance Place does not extend to Central. It stops a block before. RP is a separate development.

[Nysee53]

Wow, they did a good job of blending it in with the present streetscape.

[Anthera]

You think so? RP is very uniform in construction, beigey stucco construction, uniform signage. The stores on Central are a hodge podge of different materials.

Maybe its just obvious to me because I remember what it looked like before they built it.

Regardless, RP was a very, very smart move for HP. It really revitalized the downtown and made it a shopping destination. I think LF is more fun for shopping & lunch, but HP has more useful everyday stores.

[Stiery23]

Wow, I was impressed by the west suburbs. But the North Shore is incredible! Nothing like the rest of the Midwest..except for maybe parts of West County in St. Louis. Could someone take pics of Lincolnshire please?

[Nysee53]

Lincolnshire is hard to photo. Too many subdivisions. I might be able to, if I have time. I am able to photo the North Shore because I live in a North Shore community. I am going to upload more pictures of Evanston and an interior photo of Roycemore School. The North Shore is incredible, Sheridan Road is a very long road almost completely lined with mansions. The wealth here is highly concentrated over a large area unlike the western suburbs where you have Glen Ellyn next to Lombard, etc.

[Anthera]

I would be interested to see Lincolnshire. I never go there per se, but drive by all the time.

[Nysee53]

Photos of Evanston

Home built in the 60's in Southeast Evanston on Greenwood Street just west of the very pretty Forest Avenue, several blocks to Lake Michigan. Please note the Save Evanston stop the Tower sign. You see many of them in front of homes in East Evanston and the other more well to do parts of Evanston. This home here depending on what is inside could fetch close to or over $1,000,000 for its lot width, attached garage, age, and location.


Very large mansion home with attached garage on Greenwood Street in Southeast Evanston. Has been on market a couple of times for over $3 million.


Cute Cottage on Greenwood in Southeast Evanston with a white picket fence. Very close to the Montessori school in Evanston.


Very nice home on Forest Avenue just 1.5 blocks to Greenwood Street beach with several updates on the interior. Recently sold a few years ago for full price at $1.1 million.


Great Stucco masterpiece on Forest Avenue one of Evanston's nicer family streets.


Beautiful Painted Lady on Forest Avenue and Dempster Street just two blocks from Lake Michigan.


Forest Avenue and Dempster Street in Southeast Evanston


Home on Forest Avenue in Evanston. A Landmark home built in the late 1800's making it one of the oldest in Evanston and the North Shore, where most homes were built between 1910 and 1930.


Large home on Hamilton Street and Forest Avenue. Home to a very large family. Also a landmark home in Evanston's Lake Shore Historic District that is located in Southeast Evanston.


Home on Forest Avenue and Hamilton Street. Has been featured on Home and Garden Television. Has many interior and exterior updates and is absolutely gorgeous.


Another home on Forest Avenue and Greenleaf Street in Southeast Evanston. Home sold for over $3 million a few years ago and has recieved many updates along with coach house. Only 1.5 blocks from Lincoln Elementary School.


Pretty Home, one of the more modest on Forest Avenue. Located only 1 block from Lincoln Elementary School.


Beautiful Home on Forest Avenue and Lee Street. Located directly across from the Lincoln School playing fields.


Lincoln School, where every Cusack child attended Elementary School.


More expensive vintage condominiums near Lake Michigan on Lee Street. Usually priced as low as $350,000 and higher than $800,000.


Great landmark condominium building on Michigan Avenue in Southeast Evanston.


Pretty home on Lee Street and Sheridan Road in Southeast Evanston. Sold for over $1.4 million last year.


Pretty Georgian home on Lee Street and Sheridan Road in Southeast Evanston.


Nice yellow Victorian home with large teak rap-around porch. Sorry for the tree blocking the way.


A more affordable housing option in Southeast Evanston. One of two townhome projects from the 1960's and 1970's on Sheridan Road in Southeast Evanston. Recently some for sale around $500,000.