![]() There are a handful of secret bars scattered throughout the city, but there can only be one that stands out from the rest as being the most hidden bar.Īccording to a list compiled by Livability, the most hidden bar in all of Chicago is the Chicago Magic Lounge. Discovering the location of a secret bar adds an element of wonder to a night out. The monthly dues on this unit are $5,603.There is something mysterious about an establishment that thrives on people quietly sharing its location. Unlike condominiums, where residents own the four walls that surround them, co-op residents own shares of the building overall.Īnother difference with co-ops is that all their utilities, taxes and other costs associated with the building are rolled into the HOA dues, rather than individual owners paying their own utility bills and such. The family doesn’t know what the first generation paid for the unit, and public records are unclear because of the nature of co-ops. Ruth Igoe said a buyer will likely need to update the bathrooms and build out the kitchen, now a relatively small space but with nearby spaces originally intended for servants that might be incorporated into it. In January, the 18th floor sold for $5.2 million. ![]() Members of the Wrigley, McCormick, Donnelley and Field families have owned units in the building, and at the top of its 23 stories is a castle-like penthouse on the market at just under $9.8 million. The Chicago firm McNally & Quinn worked with Candela on 1500, his only Chicago work and one of few outside New York in his portfolio of dozens of buildings. The 1500 building is one of the city’s most handsome co-op buildings from the 1920s, designed by Rosario Candela, the architect of several stylish Jazz Age buildings on New York’s Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue. West-facing windows in the primary bedroom look out over a mix of historical and modern Gold Coast buildings. That includes eight-pointed star inlays in the floor of the foyer, with a giant sunburst overhead in the plaster ceiling, carved wood doorways between formal rooms, and plaster figures of roses, geese and a cowboy on the library ceiling.Ī row of east-facing windows frames a vista of Lake Michigan that Bognar calls “a cruise ship view” for the expanse of water it shows. Virtually every finish is as it was when the first generation of Igoes moved in 78 years ago. Both her parents, Michael and Helen, have since died, and with four of the five in her generation living away from Chicago, “we want to pass it to somebody who can appreciate the history that’s here and steward it the way my parents and grandparents did,” she said. The second generation, Ruth Igoe’s parents, moved into the co-op from their Hyde Park home in the 1980s after her grandmother died. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. House, although he served only five months in 1935 before giving up the seat to become U.S. ![]() ![]() District Court for Northern Illinois, but in the past he had served in both the Illinois House of Representatives from 1913 to 1930 and the U.S. Family lore says the first generation “bought this for the price of a used car,” according to Ruth Igoe, after a previous owner may have lost it during the Depression.Īt that time, Michael Igoe was on the U.S. ![]()
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