One year after launching its $300 million permanent casino, the Hard Rock Casino Rockford is looking to add a hotel and other amenities to defend its turf against the Ho-Chunk Nation, which is building a casino complex 18 miles away in Beloit, Wisconsin.

A seven-bedroom, 13,894-square-foot vintage French Renaissance Revival-style mansion on 2.3 acres on Lake Michigan in Winnetka sold Wednesday for $31.3 million — the highest-priced home resale in Chicago-area history.

This two-bedroom, 1½-bathroom condo in the Carlyle building in the Gold Coast has a marble foyer, up-lit tray ceilings, two coat closets and a formal dining room.