Storage warehouse up for auction near Humboldt Park
We can only guess that this warehouse at 2727 W Chicago Ave - formerly the site of Midway Moving and Storage - is primed to become greater West Town [...]
Check out the models for Lofts at River East Art Center
A recent ad for MCL Companies' The Lofts at River East Art Center read, "Just 'cuz I like art doesn't mean I want to live like a starving artist." T [...]
Want to live on Elston Avenue?
I found myself driving down Elston Ave yesterday, wondering who would live there, and coming up clueless.
I passed a single-family home for $1M in th [...]
Scenes from Rogers Park's North Point Lofts
We spent some time over the weekend at North Point Lofts, a conversion at 7506 N Damen in Rogers Park (we know some folks who moved in a year ago). [...]
Seagulls flock to South Side homes
We recently asked if the much-ballyhooed influx of cicadas had affected your neighborhoods, or interfered with your home searches. Most of you sadl [...]
Quote of the day: Michigan Avenue is so over
"...Michigan Avenue is just another mall, with food courts and you’ve-seen-it-all-before goods. These days almost all of the stores are national chain [...]
We like to watch: Mediterranean beauty in Lake View for $2.8M
Lovers of Mediterranean design might want to check out this five-bedroom 4.5-bath rowhouse at 2965 N Sheridan Rd. It looks small from the outside, [...]
New South Loop condos from $160s
Although we haven't been able to gather much information other than what was mentioned in an ad in Sunday's Chicago Tribune, a new development called [...]
Light and airy in Bucktown for around $2.07 million
Although the white facade is ultimately what you're going to get at 1842 N Wood St in Bucktown, the online listing for the four-bedroom 3.5-bath sin [...]
Bistro Room21 – another key addition in South Loop
While we're on the topic of new South Loop businesses, it's big news for the 'hood that Room21, a former Al Capone brewery-turned-bistro, recently o [...]
Tour Andersonville on YouTube
Trolling YouTube recently, we came across this video about Andersonville, hosted by Erica Lane. It has some nice shots of Berwyn Avenue (including t [...]
What would Fox & Obel mean for South Loop?
As comments on our recent post pitting the South Loop against the West Loop revealed, South Loopers still lament the lack of retail, boutiques and res [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Mondrian Hotel coming to Gold Coast?
Mondrian Hotel proposed for Gold Coast Crain's
Fox & Obel might take South Loop site Sun-Times
Center on Halsted opening today Chicagoist
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How to be treated as a comment spammer
The spam filter on our new platform is, it seems, a bit more sensitive than on the previous one.
If you use a phony e-mail address that includes anat [...]
See YoChicago posts on a map
We've been mightily impressed with Outside.in since its launch. The site consistently outperforms any other that we've found on aggregating blog con [...]
Carnival of Real Estate: comp killers, homophobes and short sales
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by the Christian Real Estate Network. If you're an agent representing bargain-seeking buyers, you might [...]
135 new homes planned in Chicago's Englewood community
Pre-sales for New Englewood Crossings, a development of 135 single-family homes and two-flats, start this summer.
The project will span the 6th, 16th [...]
Designing your week: a talk with Lucien Lagrange
Architect Lucien Lagrange has designed some of the more striking residential buildings in Chicago's recent history, including X / O - named 2007's b [...]
How to color a rehab green
How do you transform an old Chicago apartment building into an eco-friendly development?
We posed this question to engineering consultant George Sul [...]
We like to watch: converted church in East Village
If you're in the market for a loft but you're not thrilled about living in a former industrial building, this two-bedroom two-bath unit inside a for [...]