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This piece in the Sun-Times basically amounts to an extended marketing flyer for a home (we wish we could get that kind of press for our listings), but it features one of the most beautiful blocks in the city. The Jackson Boulevard Historic District, between Laflin and Ashland, just west of Whitney Young High School, is a gallery of Victorian row houses and mansions, built after the great Chicago fire in 1871 and leading up to the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, when the near west side was one of the most fashionable places to live in the city. The block feels as though it were transplanted from the more vintage, tree-lined streets of Lincoln Park, hidden among the mostly new condo developments of the West Loop. The home getting the full press treatment in the article is the jewel of the block, a red-brick Queen Anne mansion with coach house built on a corner lot, now fully restored and on sale for $2.25 million.