Access Living offers free homebuyers' seminar
Buying a home can be a difficult and stressful endeavor, but buying a home when you need it to be accessible for someone with a disability can add a l [...]
Purity for sale at new West Loop high-rise
Sunrise Development Group expects to open sales early next year for Pure, a 13-story high-rise slated for 24 S Morgan St in the West Loop. First of [...]
Yo's holiday gift guide: shopping's fast at Lake View's smallest bookstore
If you're like us, the thought of waiting in line at Wal-Mart, or even Walgreens, during the next couple of days strikes terror in your heart. If you [...]
The real deal in Wicker Park – 20k a month for the right real estate apprentice!
A tagger got in the way of this help wanted ad posted on a telephone pole at Damen Avenue and Division Street, in Wicker Park. Which is too bad becau [...]
Yo's holiday gift guide: shopping in Bronzeville
The Bronzeville Visitor Information Center, located at 3501 S King Dr, is hosting the Holidaze Trunk Sale this weekend. The event, where you can pick [...]
Chicago quote of the day – aldermen make bad witnesses
The Yo quote of the day comes courtesy of perennial favorite, Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd), commenting on problems, including gun possession, that he ha [...]
Yo's holiday gift guide: Christkindlemarket
You still have a couple of days to head down to Daley Plaza in the Loop to pick up some authentic German gifts at Christkindlmarket. The traditional [...]
The Yo Yos: Hottest Bargain, Most Overpriced Development
Yo! Today's Yo Yos are brought to you by Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band (hey, don't kick our asses for dissing your mom, blame this seven-member ensembl [...]
Gold Coast condo has got your granite right here
Yep, every condo and its sister has got fancy schmancy granite countertops these days, but this Gold Coast condo, located on the 29th floor of the h [...]
Comer Youth Center and Aqua make Lynn Becker's list of top 10 architectural happenings for '06
Architecture writer Lynn Becker has compiled a list for the Chicago Reader of the "10 most important things" in Chicago architecture in 2006.
Among h [...]
Fifty homes, surrounded by forest
Set winter aside for a few minutes and amble around the Old Edgebrook Landmark District on a sunny day last summer. It's one of the northwest side's [...]
Fifty homes surrounded by forest
Take a few minutes and amble around Chicago's Old Edgebrook Landmark District with YoChicago's Joe Zekas [...]
Being shameless about the homeless
The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) has just released a study contending that there are far more homeless in Chicago than we think.
The CCH [...]
Lakeview East's sunny Center on Halsted perfect for dark winter days
Is it us, or do the days seem to be getting shorter and shorter? Well, buck up, they don't get any shorter than today. In honor of the winter solstic [...]
Architecture on display at Art Institute
If you're fed up with all the last-minute holiday shoppers glutting Michigan Avenue, duck into The Art Institute of Chicago to check out the new exh [...]
Prime spot in Bucktown
While you're stuck in traffic, three green lights away from actuall getting through the intersection of Damen and Fullerton avenues, in Bucktown, the [...]
The original Iggy's gets a juicy makeover in River West
Even if you usually stumbled in after 2 a.m., you'll probably never forget the original Iggy's tucked away on the 600 block of North Milwaukee Avenu [...]
Irish tunes in Lincoln Square
Not this Sunday, and not the Sunday after that, but every other Sunday after those in 2007, there will be Irish traditional tunes being played live an [...]
The Yo Yos: Best of the neighborhood journals
Looking back on a year's worth of excellent posts in YoChicago's neighborhood journals, we feel like we've learned heaps of interesting things we mi [...]
New River North lofts reach to high $900s
Jameson Realty Group has opened sales on a new River North loft conversion at 154 West Hubbard. Prices on the two-bedroom (plus a media room in some f [...]