Tag: Apartments
Lakeview’s Halsted Flats is renting rapidly
Halsted Flats, 3740 N Halsted St, has reached the point where everything seems to be happening at warp speed.
The first residents moved into t [...]
New Lakeview apartments at 3130 N Lake Shore Drive
The contemporary high-rise at 3130 is the only rental building in the Lakeview neighborhood with a Lake Shore Drive address.
3130 N Lake Shore [...]
How Trulia misleads Chicago renters
Rental apartment listings at Trulia surface a bright "Contact Property" link that badly misleads renters.
When you submit information via the l [...]
Apartments within walking distance of Twitter
Crain's Chicago Business recently reported that Twitter, which has been growing its Chicago operations, plans to move its offices to River Center, 1 [...]
Another apartment tower proposed for the Loop
MB Real Estate is proposing to build a 40-story high-rise apartment tower at 171 W Van Buren in the Loop. The building, designed by Solomon Cordwell B [...]
Tour Lakeview’s newest apartments with the developer
Halsted Flats, the first new full-amenity rental high-rise built in Lakeview in nearly 30 years, moved in its first residents last weekend.
Ear [...]
A Lakeview one-bedroom across from Yolk on Diversey
The one-bedroom apartment available for rent at 430 W Diversey floods with light from south-facing windows. The apartment has new hardwood floors, [...]
Where are Chicago’s best singles apartments?
If you time-travel back to the 70s and look for an apartment you'll be bombarded by come-ons to live where there's a "swinging singles scene." One [...]
K2 Apartments, the gateway to Chicago’s hottest neighborhoods
The new K2 Apartments, 365 N Halsted St in Chicago's Fulton River District, has a keystone location that affords quick access to the city's hottes [...]
73 East Lake on track for late-April occupancy
The new 42-story, 332-unit apartment tower at 73 East Lake in the Loop has announced the opening of its leasing office.
Rental applications are be [...]
Newly-renovated Gold Coast apartments
The 13-story, 196-unit 1260 North Dearborn was built in 1929 as the Park Dearborn Hotel. The Beaux Arts building was designed by Loewenberg & Loew [...]
Tour dozens of Lakeview East apartment buildings
You can spend less than an hour touring some of Lakeview East's best apartment buildings in YoChicago videos. Or you can waste an hour at an apart [...]
An updated look at the New City mega-development
Construction was proceeding across much of the sprawling New City site when I visited yesterday.
This major development will extend the Clybou [...]
Family-friendly apartments on the New East Side
North Harbor Tower is a 55-story, 600-unit apartment tower in Chicago's New East Side neighborhood.
The building has a number of features that [...]
Video tours of twenty Lincoln Park apartment buildings
You can waste half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent [...]
A brief take on Hyde Park’s Shoreland apartments
I visited Hyde Park's newly-renovated Shoreland apartments last Saturday for a sponsored video shoot. Here are my first impressions of what I saw, [...]
Watch and weigh in on West Loop development from K2 apartments
It's been nearly 15 years since Chicago's most recent plan was adopted for the Near West Side's Fulton Randolph Market District. The area has chan [...]
Move-ins begin at Lakeview’s Halsted Flats
The first residents will begin moving in tomorrow at Halsted Flats, 3740 N Halsted in Lakeview.
Halsted Flats is the first new rental high-ris [...]
Chicago’s best Loop / New East Side apartments – three-bedroom floor plan
Chicago's Loop includes the area known as the New East Side, which in turn includes the Lakeshore East development. You'll find all of your major [...]
Avoid falling victim to Chicago rental services – check cashing edition
One of the recurring horror stories you'll read in reviews of Chicago's shark-like rental services is the difficulty renters have in getting refunds w [...]