Carnival Mondays: from running back to real estate developer
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by the site Rey Estate. Stop by to learn what happens when former football pros become real estate devel [...]
Construction update: Avenue East
Avenue East will be topped out at 27 stories this month, said sales director Michael Hampton. The top of the 133-unit building, located at 160 E Il [...]
Ripped from the headlines
Six-flat market not so flat Trib
Downtown Evanston residents resist tax Trib
Affordable condos help seniors save Trib
The merits of mortgage prep [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Wicker Park: August -- A grocery store opens in old Hillary's Urban Eatery lo [...]
Quote of the day: Lynn Becker on spite and malice
"When the market economy remains our one true religion, there's never a shortage of those who would destroy beauty with malice and replace it with shi [...]
Chicago deal of the day: Second parking space free at 550 St Clair
Sutherland Pearsall Development Corporation is offering the next five buyers of three-bedroom condos at its Streeterville high-rise, 550 St Clair, a s [...]
Designing your week: a double dose of Richard Nickel
Valentine's week (yes, it is a full week for some of us) is chock full of architecture events. YoChicago's architecture journal City Spaces, City Plac [...]
Use Corbett's jujitsu to pick a home inspector
Jujitsu is a weaponless method of self-defense that uses your attacker's strength and weight against him.
Watch the short-form version of learning [...]
The view from 740 West Fulton
Last Thursday morning YoJoe spent some time with David Chase, CEO of The Thrush Companies at 740 Fulton in the Fulton Market neighborhood.
We'll ha [...]
Using Corbett’s jujitsu to pick a home inspector
Home inspector Tom Corbett of Tomacor tells you how to use your attacker's (real estate agents and home inspectors) strengths against them. This is t [...]
Mezzanine bedrooms at Tru Lofts give Trixie and Chad a bedtime workout
It's hard to believe that Tru Lofts in Lincoln Park was once an old health club, where gymgoers no doubt grapevined their way through Midnight Oil and [...]
Comment of the day: "Gayle" on Ald. Helen Shiller (46th)
Our post quoting pro-Shiller Chicagoist blogger Kevin Robinson elicited many responses, both pro and con. "
Gayle said: "I'm wondering how many of th [...]
Lipe unveils plans for The Maduro at University Village
Lipe Property Company is breathing new life into an old cigar factory by converting it into 108 timber lofts.
Developer Steve Lipe also plans to cons [...]
We like to watch: inside Bucktown show house
Rubloff Residential Properties has listed the show house that Environs Development built in Bucktown for Midwest Home Chicago's 2006 Luxury Home Tou [...]
Ramova Theater in Bridgeport to be restored
Plans are in the works to turn Bridgeport's historic Ramova Theater into a restaurant and bakery, according to a tidbit buried towards the back of a [...]
Chicago developer offering real estate agents "frequent flyer" program
Centrum Properties is currently offering real estate agents an "Affinity Reward Program," that's akin, in the developer's own words, to a "frequent fl [...]
Centrum plans mixed-use development in Lake View
Centrum Properties is planning a mixed-use development with condos atop a retail base at the intersection of Belmont, Ashland and Lincoln avenues in [...]
Quote of the day: up with Ald. Helen Shiller (46th)
"For all her faults - and there are many - we think Helen Shiller has done a pretty good job making Uptown a livable area for a community of people th [...]
Ripped from the headlines
Rental high-rises planned in West Loop Sun-Times
Development key in 32nd, 43rd Ward races Trib
2 suburbs plan affordable housing Trib
Naperville [...]
See photographs of lost Chicago at lunchtime lecture
Photographer Richard Nickel was one of Chicago's most passionate preservationists. Indeed, he died in 1972 inside Louis Sullivan's circa-1890s Stock [...]