Vacationland: Chicago?

With a housing market full of new condos and converted loft buildings, Chicago is becoming a popular place to purchase a vacation home.

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July 10, 2009, 12:00 PM PDT

By Tim Halbur

"The city has a ready supply of deeply discounted condos, even in blue-chip neighborhoods around downtown and on the lake.

But buyers are looking for and finding slivers of opportunity. And they say they are buying with some confidence, knowing that the Chicago market has generally been more tempered than those on the coasts and in the Southwest, where the housing crisis has perhaps done the most damage."

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