(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The Gold Coast brownstone where Ernest Hemingway lived before he headed for Paris is listed for $2 million.
Hemingway, born in Oak Park, lived on the top floor of the home at 1239 N. Dearborn for three months at the end of 1921. He was a young newlywed, making $52 a week writing advertisements, and wishing to be a writer.
His first wife Hadley Richardson found the Chicago apartment dreadful, but the neighborhood was not what it is today.
That apartment is now part of a five-bedroom home on three floor, and it’s the first time the home has been for sale in 55 years. The building includes a plaque out front that marks this literary history.
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