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Monday, October 29, 2012

Former Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chairman Lists Glencoe Mansion for $3.5 Million

Leo Melamed has put his mansion at Sunrise Circle on the market.

Financial market innovator Leo Melamed has put his Glencoe mansion on the market for $3.5 million.  The former Chicago Mercantile Exchange chairman told the Chicago Tribune that “We’re at the time in our lives when all our friends have moved back downtown to the city, and we’re doing that as well. There’s nothing unusual about it.”  Designed by Edward Dart, the mansion at 350 Sunrise Circle features seven bedrooms, four full and two half bath, an outdoor pool, pool house, two fire places, large dressing room and a three-car garage.  The home, listed at $3,495,000 on the Hudson Company’s website, is just shy of joining two other Glencoe homes that recently sold for more than $4 million.  Love peeking inside luxurious mansions on the North …

Monday, August 6, 2012

Glencoe Resident Pens Financial Romance Novel

The self-published “Trade Secrets” will be released in September.

Glencoe resident Holly Rozner was working as an accountant in 1982 when she decided to buy a seat at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to make some extra money. She’d planned to lease it, but when that fell through she began using it to trade Standard & Poor’s options. “I had a sense that this would be a very successful seat and I was right,” she said. She traded profitably until the crash of 1987, standing out as a woman in her 40s in a crowd of 20-something male traders. When she was done, she knew she’d had an unusual experience that she wanted to share. She wrote Open Positions, a romance incorporating her time as a trader, and worked with an agent to try to get it printed. “At the time, publishing houses thought it was too complicated …

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