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The vacant home on Castlewood Lane
Several weeks ago Joe Zekas took a video tour down Castlewood Lane in Deerfield, just north of Deerfield Road.
The area has an attractive locat [...]
Redeveloping the Children’s Memorial Hospital site in Lincoln Park
Today is a milestone in the history of Lincoln Park hospitals in Chicago. It's the day that the Plan Commission hears the Webster Square proposal [...]
Does South Chicago have a new gay enclave?
The New York Times map of American Community Survey data is already yielding some interesting examples of demographic clustering. The data says th [...]
NYT maps new Census data for every tract in America
Yesterday the US Census Bureau released the latest set of five-year American Community Survey data, covering 2005 to 2009. By the end of the day t [...]
Castlewood Terrace home now available at ’02 sale price
When I toured this three-bedroom / 3.5-bath home at 920 W Castlewood Terrace in Margate Park last March, it was priced at just under $1.6 million. [...]
One Museum Park East to rent 20 unsold condos
The developers of One Museum Park East, 1211 S Prairie Ave, will rent out about 20 of the building's unsold condos, Crain's reports. Don't expect any [...]
Curbed Cup scandals, NY and Chicago editions
Curbed New York discovered ballot-stuffing in its Curbed Cup matchup between Park Slope and Roosevelt Island.
In Chicago, Uptown surpassed Ri [...]
Berwyn – the next gay ‘hood, or a budding Maywood?
Earlier this year the Tribune noted Berwyn's attempts to position itself as an "affordable and amenable" alternative for the gay and lesbian residents [...]
King of the FSBO holdouts: Three years and counting for a Gotham Loft
Although Redfin tracks units for sale by owner, I normally don't include these homes in my own searches and number-crunching. They're fun to look at [...]
Yo’s guide to moving to Winnetka
Winnetka is home to "the educated affluent," says Joe Zekas, a place with a largely unwarranted reputation when it comes to social snobbery and viewe [...]
Watching the median in West Town
West Town recently ranked sixth among Chicago community areas in the average sale price of a condo, behind the Loop, Near North Side, Lincoln Park, Ne [...]
West Englewood curiosities
Welcome to West Englewood, where the median list price is $49K, the median sold price was $17K last month – and three “fabulous newly constructed [...]
One-fifth of Chicago mortgages underwater
Here's some local color on today's Core Logic report on negative equity: Chicago's share of mortgages with negative equity actually rose (contrary to [...]
Get your vote on at Curbed
The inaugural Curbed Cup competition for Chicago neighborhoods began today with what should be a pretty lopsided showdown between the first and last s [...]
Rent or buy at the Sexton Lofts
Over the summer I noted the relative lack of rental options in River North's loft buildings, and pointed to a 1,750 square-foot unit at Sexton Lofts, [...]
Clarendon Hills’ government and services
The final segment from Joe Zekas' drive around Clarendon Hills with Coldwell Banker agent Mike McCurry features a brief explanation of the west su [...]
McCaffery opens marketing center for US Steel redevelopment
“This will change the entire face of the South Side, which now has the perception as not being a nice place to go. I saw a map the other day, a ba [...]
Surprising condos on a do-not-lend list
A post at Gary Lucido’s Getting Real blog includes an extensive list of condo developments that are on an unnamed lender’s “do-not-lend” list. Gar [...]
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Neighborhood snapshot – Archer Heights
What the charming write-ups about Archer Heights never tell you is that it’s long been one of Chicago’s most segregated communities – and that’s s [...]