We enjoyed our one month stay at this apartment. It is comfy, clean and well stocked, with a great bed, sofa, space to work, a big dining table for guests, lots of light and on a quiet street. We stayed at this apartment with our one year old and it is very child-friendly.
Wade and Jenn are great hosts and very responsive. They made us feel at home and provided lots of little touches to make you feel more than another guest. They live upstairs so that makes it really easy if there is anything wrong. Example: there were only two pans in the kitchen, I messaged Wade in the morning, and that night he got us two new pans. They also kindly stored our luggage when our plans changed.
Traveling with a baby puts you in the awkward position of needing your neighbors to be really quiet at nap time and night time while producing quite a bit of noise yourself if the baby cries and throws things on the floor. Our baby is not too sensitive and we use a white noise maker, but if you or your family are super sensitive to noise, it is good to know this is an older house and you are above and below other families and noise between floors does travel: there are a few dogs around who can bark, and a clarinet player downstairs (who limits playing to about an hour a day at dinner time though). All neighbors seem aware of this and considerate of others though.
The location was a little further from Lincoln Square than we thought: it is about a twenty-minute walk, and the apartment is in a very residential neighborhood. This meant that the experience was less of the fun big city experience than we had hoped for. On the other hand, it also came with lots of unexpected benefits: there is a great gym with a pool nearby, a big park with a playground and a public swimming pool. There are also amazing public tennis courts.
The bus is super convenient, the train is a bit further with a 20 minute walk, but if you are savvy enough and don't like to walk you can time things easily with a short bus ride to the train.
We can highly recommend this apartment as a home base for exploring Chicago if you are looking for better value and more space than the more pricey neighborhoods, and you are willing to walk a bit more to do so.