Step into this one bedroom, one bath apartment in Evanston and the first thing you notice is the light. Wide double windows in a bay alcove fill the living room from morning through afternoon, and that brightness carries straight through into the adjoining dining area, where the ceiling still wears its original decorative plaster trim and crown molding. Hardwood floors run continuously through the living room, dining area, hallway and bedroom, giving the whole apartment a warm, cohesive feel instead of a patchwork of finishes. The bedroom holds a full-size bed comfortably with room to spare, has its own window for cross ventilation, and includes a built-in double door wardrobe closet for clothing storage, a real plus in a vintage building where closets are often an afterthought.
The kitchen has been updated with dark quartz-style countertops and a full run of white subway tile backsplash that wraps behind the stove and sink, paired with white shaker-style cabinetry above and below the counter for plenty of storage. Stainless steel appliances include a gas range, a dishwasher tucked beside the sink, and a full-size refrigerator, and a stainless undermount sink sits beneath the kitchen window, keeping the space bright while you work. A front-load washer and dryer are installed directly in the kitchen run next to the dishwasher, so laundry never means a trip to a shared basement. The bathroom keeps its tiled tub and shower combination intact, along with a three-panel medicine cabinet over the vanity that adds useful mirror space and hidden storage for toiletries. Between the updated kitchen, the in-unit laundry, and the closet space built into the bedroom, this apartment balances everyday convenience with the character of its prewar hardwood floors and trim.
Updated Apartments
Hardwood Floors
Restored Wood Trim
Updated Kitchen
SS Appliances
Washer/Dryer Combo
Quartz Countertop
Backsplash
Updated Bathroom
Mini Blinds
Ceiling Fans
Plenty of Closet Space
Apartments
Hardwood Floors
Dishwasher
Mini Blinds
Ceiling Fans
Plenty of Closet Space
Building Features
On-site Laundry
Cable/Internet Ready
Individual Electric Heater per Unit
Street Parking
Pet Policy
Cats Allowed
Dogs Allowed
2 Pets Max
No Weight Limit
What’s Included in Rent
Included
Water
Trash
Tenant Pays
Heat
Electricity
Cooking Gas
325-31 Kedzie Street, Evanston, IL 60202
Very Walkable
82Walk
52Transit
90Bike
Transit & Commute
325-31 Kedzie St sits about a 5-minute walk from the Main stop, where the CTA Purple Line and the Union Pacific North Metra both stop within the same few blocks. The Purple Line runs express into Chicago's Loop during rush hour in roughly 45 to 55 minutes with trains every 7 to 10 minutes, and continues local service off-peak with an easy transfer to the Red Line at Howard. For a seated commute, the Metra's Main Street station reaches the Ogilvie Transportation Center downtown in about 25 minutes. With both lines converging this close to home, getting into the city rarely requires a car.
What’s Nearby
A Jewel-Osco on Chicago Avenue covers grocery runs in about an 8-minute walk, and the Main-Dempster Mile, Evanston's retail and dining corridor of more than 200 independent shops and restaurants, is close enough to reach on foot for daily coffee or dinner. Blind Faith Cafe on Dempster Street, a longtime vegetarian favorite, is roughly a 9-minute walk, with bakeries, boutiques, and casual restaurants filling in the blocks around it. Raymond Park on Chicago Avenue, about an 8-minute walk, offers a nearby playground and green space for an afternoon outside. A little over 20 minutes on foot brings you to the Robert Crown Community Center on Main Street, a 2020 facility with a branch library, two NHL-sized ice rinks, a fitness center, an indoor track, and turf fields.
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Evanston
Evanston began as Potawatomi land before farmers settled it in the 1830s, and it took its name and momentum from Northwestern University founder John Evans, who purchased 379 acres along the lake in 1853. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 sent a wave of displaced Chicagoans north to rebuild, accelerating Evanston's growth into a true town rather than a bedroom suburb, complete with its own downtown, industry, and civic institutions. For much of the 20th century Evanston was also a center of the American temperance movement, staying legally dry until 1972, a history the town now wears with a wink through a crop of breweries and distilleries named in homage to it. Its neighborhoods each carry their own character: the historic Lakeshore Historic District in Southeast Evanston holds 765 homes spanning Italianate, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, and Georgian Revival styles along the water, the blocks around Northwestern buzz with campus-driven coffee shops and bookstores, and family-oriented stretches near Howard Street keep a quieter, tree-lined feel. What ties it together is the lakefront itself, miles of public Lake Michigan shoreline with sand beaches, a historic lighthouse, and shaded parks, paired with a downtown dense enough to rival much of the city, all a half-hour Purple Line or Metra ride from the Loop.
Beach & Lakefront
Lighthouse Beach
Tucked beneath the historic Grosse Point Lighthouse at the northern edge of Evanston's shoreline, Lighthouse Beach is the North Shore's quiet answer to a day at the coast. It's a rare urban beach backed by protected sand dunes and wild grasses, with a playground, a picnic pavilion, and a walking trail that winds through wildflowers past the lighthouse itself. All summer, from late May through Labor Day, its lifeguarded sand and open Lake Michigan water are a short walk or bike ride from your door: a morning swim, an afternoon with a book, an evening watching the light drop over the lake. No car, no crowds, no highway to the coast.
Wrapped around the base of the Grosse Point Lighthouse is one of Evanston's most storied green spaces: a leafy lakefront park on the grounds of the historic Harley Clarke Mansion, a French Eclectic house whose gardens were first laid out by the pioneering Prairie-school landscape architect Jens Jensen. Wide lawns and mature shade trees run between the mansion and the shore, and tucked in among them is Noah's Playground for All, a beloved inclusive play space with a braille map, a puppet-theatre gazebo, and giant spring riders, all in view of the water. It's free, open to everyone, and rolls straight into Lighthouse Beach next door: the kind of unhurried lakeside afternoon most people have to leave the city to find.
Northwestern's Deering Library is the closest thing the North Shore has to a Cambridge quad. Opened in 1933 and designed by the great collegiate-gothic architect James Gamble Rogers, its ivy-clad limestone facade, soaring pointed-arch windows, and corner towers were modeled on the 15th-century King's College Chapel at Cambridge, right down to the vaulted reading rooms inside. It anchors Northwestern's lakefront campus, a short walk from downtown Evanston, and the public is welcome: rotating exhibitions in its galleries draw on the university's rare books, maps, and art, and the long front lawn is one of the loveliest spots in town to sit with a coffee. Grand architecture and free culture, minutes from your door.
Rising 113 feet over the shoreline, one of the tallest lighthouses on the Great Lakes, Grosse Point has guided ships since it was first lit in 1874, its beam once thrown by a rare second-order Fresnel lens shipped from Paris. Designed by the celebrated Army engineer Orlando Poe and named a National Historic Landmark in 1999, it still stands as the single most recognizable landmark on Chicago's North Shore. On summer weekends the keeper's quarters and tower open for guided climbs, and the view from the top, lake to one side and tree-lined Evanston to the other, is the kind of thing most people drive hours for. You'd have it a stroll from home.
