Crain’s this week included what might be the ultimate in real estate pornography: thirty pages devoted to $1-million-plus houses. Included was a list of every single sale in the six-county region that topped $1, $1.5, or $2M (broken down by area), and photos of a few representative samples. Now, I personally can’t even begin to understand the appeal of suburban living, but I can understand why someone else paid $1.7M for this horsey-set estate:

What I don’t understand is $2.7 million (yes, one million more smackeroos! that’s a three-mile-high stack of 200,000 sandwiches!) for this overgrown snout house:

…and it’s on Denali Ridge Drive, in aptly named far-west exurban Plainfield, miles from nowhere but right up against the freeway to Joliet. Probably named after the middling (but huge) SUV, not the Alaskan range, of course.

(Photos by Brett Kramer for Crain’s Chicago Business)

Update! explained after the jump

A little too curious, a bit of searching at the Tribune’s transactions site brings up what looks like a typo:

$2,665,000
10/05/2004

6403 Denali Ridge Dr, Plainfield, 60544
to Edgar S Gastelum, from Neumann Homes Inc

$265,000
10/15/2004

6517 Denali Ridge Dr, Plainfield, 60544
to Michael A Yates, from Neumann Homes Inc

Someone got a bit carried away and added an extra digit. Not that $266,500 for that house makes that much more sense, of course.