CHICAGO-The 450-bed Somerset Place and 207-bed Grasmere Residential Home, both in Chicago's Uptown community, are refinanced at 5.63% under HUD's FHA-insured 223(a)7 program.

SKOKIE, IL-Chicago-based CMD Realty Investors, with a 10-million-sf office and industrial portfolio across the US, comes back into the local market with its purchase of the warehouse and manufacturing building at 7300 N. Linder Ave.

BEDFORD PARK, IL-First Industrial Realty Trust pays Metropolitan Life $7.9 million for a 407,000-sf building, then leases 267,000 sf to Olympic Oil.

NORTHBROOK, IL-The Container Store, Nordstrom Rack, Circuit City, Old Navy, The Sports Authority and Linens 'N Things are among the tenants of the 334,955-sf strip shopping center on Skokie Boulevard.

CHICAGO-A 90,000-sf warehouse in Brighton Park sells for less than $22 per sf, while a Greater Grand Crossing asset goes to a user for less than $15 per sf.

CHICAGO-The Chicago Sun-Times needs 70,000 sf to 120,000 sf by next summer, when its plant at 401 N. Wabash Ave. is demolished to make way for the $650-million, 2.4-million-sf Trump International Hotel & Tower.

ROLLING MEADOWS, IL-The residential mortgage lender will make its regional headquarters at Prime Group Realty Trust's three-building 925,090-sf office complex along the Northwest Tollway. The deal pushes the complex's vacancy down 16 percentage points to less than 7%.

DOWNERS GROVE, IL-A location near O'Hare International Airport, restaurants and shopping centers keeps the long-term tenant at Archon Group's 174,391-sf Woodland Corporate Tower in place at 1333 Butterfield Rd.