Friday is Marycrest day
If you were dropped in the middle of Marycrest, and asked to guess where you were, you might venture Grayslake or Bloomingdale or Plainfield. There [...]
Jump the neighborhood trivia shark
Which park, pictured above, in which Chicago neighborhood, bills itself as the "home of the sharks?"
And - totally separate question - which Ch [...]
Chicago magazine looks at changes inside architecture giant Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Chicago magazine takes aim at the inner workings of the renowned architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in a story by Jay Pridmore in the Febr [...]
Chicago deal estate – Lennar offers $10,000 off unit prices at Library Tower
Homebuilder Lennar is offering buyers $10,000 off the base-price of condos at its 17-story development, Library Tower, at State Street and Congress [...]
A deal on townhomes in Chicago's West Elsdon neighborhood
A quick survey of new townhome developments in Chicago reveals that one of the city's best bargains is at 53rd Street and Millard Avenue in West Els [...]
Art for the evolving South Loop
These panels, attached to an exterior wall of Jones College Prep, the high school at 606 S State St, seem an apt metaphor for the rapid changes in t [...]
Have a look at Woodlawn's Living Green Lofts
We've been talking about Living Green Lofts, located at 1501 E 65th St in Woodlawn, for a while, but here is our first look at the 25-unit developme [...]
Presenting the madcap antics of "Artie" at R+D659
We thought we'd seen it all, until now. Meet "Artie," the star of a couple of wacky, zany videos at the Web site for Mesirow Financial's condo project [...]
Melrose remakes Old Town Triangle building
Melrose Partners, a purveyor of Lincoln Park and Lake View starter castles, has 15 of 18 units available in its condo conversion at 334 W Menomonee [...]
Chicago auction action: how to succeed at auctions without really trying
Who do auctions best serve? The seller or the buyer? That depends, says Rick Levin of auction house Rick Levin & Associates. The word "auction" conjur [...]
We like to watch: River North penthouse has an artist's touch
Only in a penthouse "created" by an artist would you find a silkscreen of Mao Tse-Tung hanging above the john (there's another Mao -- tinted in re [...]
Chicago auction action: hammer time at Park Village Condos
March 6 is hammer time at the Park Village Condominiums, a 63-unit development at 2451 W Howard St, just south of the Evanston border. Thirty-two of [...]
Construction update: Trump heading up
If they stopped building right now, Trump Tower would probably still be an improvement over the former Sun-Times Building. The base of the 92-story [...]
What's a neighborhood without a Tastee Freez?
Every neighborhood needs one, says a reviewer at Yelp, and it's hard to argue the point with her.
Not every neighborhood, alas, has one of these [...]
Not your classical Chinese restaurant mural
But then we don't get around Marquette Park enough to be certain of that. This one's on the south side of Arden Chinese Restaurant, 6207 S Kedzie Av [...]
Marycrest, on Chicago’s southwest side
Join YoChicago's Joe and Val Zekas on a drive through the residential and commercial parts of this Ashburn sub-neighborhood, built in the 1990s [...]
Chicago's next hot neighborhoods
Architect Pat FitzGerald likes parts of the south and southwest sides of Chicago.
See the rest of Yo's wide-ranging interview with one of Chicago's [...]
Sales of new condos down in fourth quarter of 2006
To get an even better handle on the market for new condos we consulted Erik Doersching of housing analyst Tracy Cross & Associates, which tracks sales [...]
Preservation Chicago names its Magnificent 7
Okay, we added the magnificent part. Yo attended a lunchtime press conference at City Hall where historic architecture advocacy group Preservation C [...]
Theater brings big bucks to the Loop, study finds
Hoping to score incentives from the city, Broadway in Chicago has commissioned a study showing how much good its productions are doing for Chicago's [...]