Price points and public transportation at West Loop's VB1224
Join Peter Boland of @properties as he gives an overview of VB1224: Van Buren Lofts. @properties recently took over the marketing of VB1224 from New [...]
Nostalgia for Bronzeville's 47th Street
I joined a group of high school journalists Saturday for a tour of Bronzeville with the Community Media Workshop. We walked 47th Street searching fo [...]
A walk through the West Loop's Skinner Park
Skinner Park, 1331 W Adams St, was founded as Jefferson Park in 1850. In 1955 the city renamed it for the adjacent Mark T. Skinner School. Today, th [...]
Inside a two-story home in Bridgeport Village
The western part of Bridgeport, once a working-class enclave, now has luxurious houses for sale that are as big as a lot of the things you'd find in [...]
Auburn Gresham resident gets a hand from the New Communities Program
If you're curious how LISC Chicago's New Communities Program might spend the $26 million it just received from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthu [...]
Real estate curmudgeon – mortgage brokers, toxic waste
Is there any difference between mortgage brokers and toxic waste? I can think of at least two differences.
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Real estate curmudgeon – mortgage brokers and toxic waste
Is there any difference between mortgage brokers and toxic waste? I can think of at least two differences. [...]
Comparables: Edgewater
You certainly get a lot of space at 1328 W Elmdale, Unit 2E. The 2 bedroom, 2 bath unit in what you would probably call a craftsman style six-flat, re [...]
West Loop is home to Restaurant Row
West Randolph Street is not the only place you can get a nice meal in the West Loop, but it is the place where it all began back in the early '90s, [...]
Tour Chinatown, development sites with See Wong
After describing his plans for the Grand Imperial Hotel, developer See Wong took us to see the site in Chinatown as well as the site of his proposed [...]
Ornate Grand Imperial to bring hotel condos, new landmark to Chinatown
Developer See Wong has grand plans for Chinatown, including an expansion of its boundaries with the Grand Imperial Hotel, an ornate hotel condominiu [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Draper and Kramer in venture to buy West Loop apartment high-rise
D & K in venture to buy W Loop apartments Crain's
City set to boost Wilson Yard subsidy Crain's
Developer nixes New Lenox plans Crain's
Trump com [...]
MacArthur foundation gives $26 million to bolster Chicago neighborhoods
An initiative aimed at revitalizing 16 Chicago neighborhoods received $26 million Tuesday from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
T [...]
Quote of the day: "up and going" from Woodlawn
"This whole Cottage Grove area, this is up and coming, as they say. I guess that means we up and going."
- Beauty Turner, an advocate for public hous [...]
Parking restrictions proposed in West Loop
Residents of the West Loop are sick of commuters using the neighborhood as a free parking lot, according to a Medill News Service article also publi [...]
Waiting for the bus in the West Loop
Like much of the city, the West Loop lacks good north / south transport via train. The bus is often the best option for public transportation riders [...]
Tawnya McVicker, the Bronzeville Queen
She says she didn't give herself the moniker, and there's good reason to believe her: Tawnya McVicker is currently representing half a dozen new dev [...]
Jackson Square at West End, Chicago
New construction is pushing relentlessly westward from Chicago's Loop. Jackson Square at West End, part of a major redevelopment near the United Cent [...]
A Bridgeport Village single-family, Chicago
Bridgeport Village is in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, but it differs sharply from the bungalows and workers' cottages that characterize most of [...]
1 North Bishop, Madison – Bishop, West Loop, Chicago
Join Armando Chacon and YoChicago's Mark Dalton for a tour of this townhome and its extensive roof decks. [...]