Chicago Rental: University Village Penthouse for $2,595

Penthouses, terraces and views of a downtown skyline are on every city-dwellers wish list. In Chicago's University Village, less than five miles from downtown, this three-bedroom pad offers all of those attractive features for $2,595 per month.

Over the past decade, new residential buildings and retail shops have gone up in University Village, a redeveloped mixed-income West Side area. Location-wise the neighborhood's draw is its proximity to the University of Illinois at Chicago and to historic Little Italy.

But in a part of town that revolves around a university, rarely do you find a place that's been finished so nicely.