I adore these old mansions. Lived in one in Washington Park that was converted into apartments for a couple years, and while the landlord can go to hell, I miss that building and its character & history & style something fierce.
The eventual sale price remains to be seen, but it's a sign of the huge shifts in Bronzeville that these King Drive mansions are once again fetching mansion money. A couple decades ago, perfectly livable examples sold for less than $250K and one in this shape would have been hard to sell at all.
And of course, Dennis Rodkin wrote about it in Crain's:
The then-future mayor was 6 years old in 1928 when he, his father and a brother moved into the greystone owned by a family friend. It's now vacant and in need of rehab.
Nosy =/= neighborly. Intrusiveness is not the same thing as care.
Fucking preach >.<
Of ~course~ you can get it done more quickly if you have money. It's the master key to fucking everything in this gods forsaken hellscape society....
That's probably about where I'm going to need to be to pass for functional. And that waiting list shit is insane. 6 months would be bad enough, but over 4 YEARS??? That's just boggles the mind.
That is to say despite me not being anywhere near the shape I was in in high school, it looks like I'm going to have to damn near mainline caffeine until my adderall supply is sorted out.
There's a black-wrapped one in the town I work in that I see All The Time. Dude drives like a jagoff, too. Makes me want to keep jacks in my car to release out my sunroof at him.
Nice to hear The Corps did something decent over there for a change....