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1036 North Dearborn


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LionBrion3

Resident 2007 - 2008

1/23/2009

Great location, substandard building

The building is in a great location but I think the units are overpriced for what you actually get. I lived here for 12 months on the 9th floor and the unit was probably the smallest inhabitable space in the city. Appliances are good, but there's no counter space. The bathroom is pretty old, and so small that I had to take the door off of it. The water pressure is not the greatest. The units probably looked alot better when they were originally rehabbed, but they have definitely taken a beating. The walls have been painted over a ton, and the ceiling is cracked and peeling. The rest of the building is fairly decrepit. The elevators are impossibly old, small, and slow, and one or the other is occassionally closed for repairs. The freight elevator is broken about half the time, and the management tries to blame it on the tenants by saying they open the door when the elevator is moving. No, its broken alot because its 100 years old. Maintenance is pretty responsive. The office people are usually pretty helpful, but sometimes they have a crazy person filling in. There is a security guard at night who just sits at a table and stares awkwardly at whoever walks through the door. That'll show 'em. Since they won't let you put your number in the directory if its not a 312 area code, people tell their friends the general code to open the door. Probably everyone in the three block radius knows this code and can come in whenever. This is not safe, however I've never had a break in or seen homeless people in the building. The neighborhood is shady after midnight. Laundry room is ok. The gym is a bad joke. The roof deck is nice but almost (always) closed. There is some section 8 in the building. Parking is a nightmare, but its really close to transportation and alot of cool bars and restaurants.

    Review 8 out of 18

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