Author: Joe Zekas
Wednesday, Wednesday, is Yo Chicago rents day
The Web makes it easy to waste time.
Today's time-waster: counting the occurrence in Craigslist ads of the words Chicago apartment-seekers love to he [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, the ugly building blues day
It's not the ugliest building we've seen lately, and it's only truly ugly in context, but it does have the virtue of being close at hand (right ar [...]
The daily Joeff
And here's what happened when some newlyweds surfaced in April, 2003.
Photo by Joeff Davis. [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Lincoln Park photo gallery. [...]
A death sentence for taggers?
Uh, you might want to move your spray paint to your trunk, and put a newspaper over it, before you park your car in West Walker, a part of the city th [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's galleries for Wicker Park, Bronzeville and Ravenswood (samples below).
Wicker Park
Bronzeville [...]
Where crime is almost fun
If you haven't been to ChicagoCrime.org, go there now and check out your street and neighborhood.
This innovative site plots recent crimes in Chicago [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in YoChicago's West Loop photo gallery.
Photo by Joeff Davis [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in YoChicago's Edgewater photo gallery.
Photo by Joeff Davis [...]
The daily Joeff
The alley behind The Alley on Clark Street. See dozens more in YoChicago's Lake View photo gallery.
Photo by Joeff Davis [...]
Targeting Chicago's dumbest borrowers
It's not as if mortgage lenders need much help in targeting understanding-challenged borrowers, but the Illinois Department of Financial and Professio [...]
Sets my sleaze-o-meter racing
I have a finely-tuned sleaze-o-meter that easily jumps past the redline.
One mortgage broker's radio commercial sends my sleaze-o racing from word on [...]
Yuppies have murals, too
This one is in the part of Humboldt Park that some are trying to annex as West Bucktown. Goats have interesting ways of marking their turf.
The ph [...]
Renting at the high end
Chicago rents don't approach the $100K and up a month that you'll find in Manhattan, or even the $60K that's not uncommon in LA.
To catch up on the l [...]
Sub-Division
As far as we kow, Sub-Division is not the name of a new neighborhood that's south of Division Street. But hey, what does Yo know?
Well, we know that [...]
