Author: Joe Zekas
Today's Yo challenge — Fort Pappageorge
That's not a drawing of an integrated circuit chip — it's a Google Earth view of what used to be mockingly referred to as "Fort Pappageorge," [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, got the ugly building blues day
How to account for this?
- Prototype for Six Flags Starbucks.
- Turret fell off a UFO and landed on the Starbucks.
- Starbucks CEO's kid got hired [...]
The building or the pol?
Did the politician sell out? Or the building? Or both? [...]
Paying real estate taxes on your plasma TV
An MSN article about the increase in closing perks — free plasma TVs, cars, upgrades and more — got me thinking about incompetent attorney [...]
North Shore new home drive-bys
Yo was out on the shore yesterday for a morning of drive-by shootings, on the way home from a cheap-cigarette run to Highland Park. Lake County [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
Sunday morning coming down - from the Saint Paddy's day after-parties.
Get far away from anything Irish. Tote the wee ones to the Oak Lawn Public Lib [...]
Construction sites are hives of activity
Or so goes the oft-repeated metaphor.
There are many ways in which the metaphor doesn't fit — very few sites have a queen bee, of either se [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for Bronzeville, Logan Square and South Loop (samples below).
Bronzev [...]
Kendall Will Boone Grundy
Chicagoland suburbs snagged 4 of the top 80 positions on a list of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties.
Kendall County ranked third, with popul [...]
Slag Valley, Irondale, Veterans Park
Yaptown, Millgate, Cheltenham, Avalon Trails, Arizona ...
Admit it. From the moment she cupped her hands around your ear and huskily whispered "Hege [...]
Friday, Friday is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why don't bricks spawn salmon? Tell me why oh why?
The question for Saint Patrick's day ... In a city that's nearly one-third Hispanic, why do so man [...]
Thursday, Thursday, it could be worse day
It's been a helluva week.
The IRS seized the contents of your safety deposit box — there go the bearer bonds — and foreclosed the lien [...]
New construction on the cheap
$2 a gallon paint on the steps of a new, unoccupied home.
$2 a square foot Bowmanite on the street at a new development of luxury homes. [...]
Wednesday, Wednesday is YoChicago rents day
Driving around Lakeview Central today we noticed a surprising number of homes for rent.
In Chicago's lower density areas, there's probably still no b [...]
