Author: Joe Zekas
The other information superhighway
If you're searching for a new home but your Internet connection's down, boot up the computers in your car and hop on to the original information sup [...]
Bull as principal and principle
zRent bills itself as "Chicago's premier apartment locator." Whatever.
The company needs some help in matching photos with ads: it's using the same p [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
Explore ancient Africa without ever leaving Chicago at the newly-opened Nubian Gallery at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute.
It's open f [...]
From zombie to real estate agent
Some folks think that going from zombie to real estate agent is not progressing in the right direction.
We just stumbled across Jay Stover's high-con [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for the West Loop, Lake View and Lincoln Park (samples below).
West L [...]
Best practices, worst results
According to a recent report (PDF file) from Catalyst Chicago, a group that tracks school results, the largest decline in Prairie State reading, math [...]
Friday, Friday, is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why can't a cow have kittens? Tell me why oh why?
If you read rental service ads on Craigslist, it's easy to find lie after lie after lie.
Yo search [...]
Thursday, Thursday, it could be worse day
Your lawyer now owns your old estate, but you're out on bail while the appeal is pending, and there's that wad of cash in the Caymans.
Downsize [...]
Wednesday, Wednesday is Yo Chicago rents day
Chicago Apartment Finders advertises an unusual number of great-sounding apartments on Craigslist.
To us, they sound suspiciously good. We're wonde [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, the ugly building blues day
Was it George Ugwell (ouch!) who said that "all Jewels are created ugly, but some Jewels are more ugly than others?"
Are those some space alien bur [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
Today's the day for a treetop canopy climbing adventure. The more earthbound can frolic with turtles and frogs and snakes and such. We know that yo [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Lake View photo gallery. [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for Hyde Park, Bucktown and Ravenswood (samples below).
Hyde Park
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Friday, Friday, is why-oh-why-oh-way day?
Why can't a mouse eat a streetcar? Tell me why oh why.
Why don't apartment rental services run exact addresses in their ads?
That question has a co [...]