1136 N Milwaukee

Chicago, IL 60642

EAT YOUR HEART OUT, SOHO, Create your own urban masterpiece at the base of the hip Milwaukee/Division corridor, rather than accepting some cramped, cliched rowhouse or tacky townhouse. For what many cookie-cutter 3,000-square-foot homes cost, you can have a three-story 4,000+ square-foot stunner with 12-14 foot ceilings, huge windows with sweeping views, dramatic skylights flooding the space with light, and a penthouse (The roof access stairway for which is already in place.) entertainment space with huge rooftop deck. Not sold? Well ... how about an almost 2,000 sq/ft storefront* with 14' ceilings that can be rented to offset costs, unless you feel like opening that gallery you've been talking about! Want more? There's a two-story garage with a 700 square ft loft studio that can add to the income or self-use options. Plan on spending $200,000 to $300,000 to demo out the existing walls and ceilings, install new mechanicals, lay new flooring, create some dramatic bathrooms and a stunning kitchen. Got an extra fifty grand? Re-purpose one of the two existing skylight wells and install an elevator! Let famed Chicago architect and city planner Daniel Burnham's words be your guide: "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.... Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big."