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The one- and two-bedroom vintage apartments at 618 Hinman in Evanston have been renovated but retain many of their original vintage touches, including hardwood floors, large sun rooms, decorative fireplaces and complex crown and baseboard moldings. The floor plans are unusually spacious, and individual rooms are large enough to accommodate a number of different functions. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 15, 2013
1632 W Belmont, at the happening Lake View intersection of Lincoln, Belmont and Ashland, is a “new building within an old building.” Renovated studio apartments include all new kitchens and baths and hardwood-like flooring. Kitchens all have dishwashers and built-in microwaves. There’s a Walgreens across the street, a Whole Foods around the corner and plenty ...
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Posted by sponsored post on March 21, 2013
3834 N Sheffield is a few minutes’ walk from Wrigley Field and a block south of the Sheridan stop on the CTA Red Line. Residents of the studio apartments enjoy an abundant selection of shopping, dining and nightlife almost at their doorstep. BJB Properties, the sponsor of the video, owns and manages 1,000s of updated ...
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Posted by sponsored post on March 20, 2013
For years, the West Loop has been one of those neighborhoods that’s always on the verge of becoming hot but never quite catches fire. The past few years, however, have seen a quiet accumulation of infrastructure improvements, commercial and office development, and plans for new residential developments that may finally enable the West Loop to ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 7, 2013
The 3-bedroom, 2-bath condo at 4709 N Artesian in the Ravenswood Gardens part of Lincoln Square has all of the features that savvy buyers are seeking. The 3-unit boutique building is on a quiet, one-way, tree-lined street a short distance from the Brown Line and the retail, dining and recreational scene in Lincoln Square. It ...
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Posted by sponsored post on February 28, 2013
The mixed-income Park Boulevard development in Bronzeville, on the former site of Stateway Gardens, is part of the CHA’s ambitious and largely-stalled Plan for Transformation. A 3-bedroom, 2 ½ bath Park Boulevard townhome at 3558 S Federal St just came on the market, priced at $279,900. You can see a similar townhome in the above ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 4, 2013
Just a few blocks north of Wrigley Field is a tree-lined block set apart from the crowds that flood Wrigleyville on game and concert days. 925 W Dakin is a recently-rehabbed vintage building with 1- and 2-bedroom loft-style apartments. The homes have hardwood floors and exposed brick and ductwork, in keeping with the loft aesthetic. ...
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Posted by sponsored post on February 4, 2013
The remodeled vintage mid-rises at 1063 and 1101 W Columbia have the beach at one end of their tree-lined block and Starbucks, restaurants, a convennience store and a movie theater at the other end. The Loyola University campus and Loyola Red Line stop are just a few blocks south. The studio, 1- and 2-bedroom apartments ...
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Posted by sponsored post on January 31, 2013
Astoria Tower, a full-amenity new high-rise in Chicago’s South Loop, hosts a series of events for its residents throughout the year. Join us at a party and barbecue on Astoria Tower’s sprawling terraces, meet some of the residents, and hear what they love about living in the building and the neighborhood. When asked what they ...
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Posted by sponsored post on August 22, 2012
The Tribune is reporting that the CTA has signed a contract for a $57.4 million face lift for seven of “the most shabby, leaky and all-around deplorable stations on the CTA Red Line north branch.” One of those stations is Argyle, and you can see its crumbling viaduct in the above video, one of 17 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 9, 2012
Price appreciation in Chicago real estate? In this market? Am I out of my mind to be talking about appreciation? For more than a decade Chicago’s real estate market has either been swept up in a frenzied bubble or mired in a sky-will-continue-to-fall-for-years-to-come funk. Due to extraordinary market conditions many home buyers never learned the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 21, 2011
Uptown Update has a list of 13 condos that are part of a coordinated open house effort this coming Sunday, September 11. The units range in size from two to four bedrooms and in price from $214.9K to $379K, and all are said to be in Uptown’s Sheridan Park neighborhood. Only 9 of the 13 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 8, 2011
Mayor Emanuel has moved back into his Ravenswood home and rode the Brown Line to work today. “Got on the train and got to work in 30 minutes, short order. That is a competitive advantage for the city,” he said. I hopped on the Edens Expressway this morning and got to my office in River ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 23, 2011
A hat tip to the CTA Tattler for alerting us to The Red Line Project by DePaul University journalism students. Joe Askins, before heading off to grad school, undertook YoChicago’s Red Line project, and you can see the results at our CTA Red Line playlist at YouTube. Joe shot a video at each of the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 26, 2011
From Chicago Breaking News: The CTA will go out for bids next week to sell naming rights to its rail lines and stations, bus routes and other assets, CTA president Richard Rodriguez announced Wednesday. Sounds like a perfect thread to end the day — take it away, jokers.
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Posted by Joseph Askins on November 10, 2010
Walk a block west from the Red Line’s Jarvis station or a block east from Touhy Park and you’ll find this turn-of-the-century Victorian home done up in a Painted Lady style at 1635 W Jarvis Ave. The 2,723 square-foot home, listed by Bianca Pillay of Sudler Sotheby’s International Realty, features a custom designed kitchen, family ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on June 14, 2010
We were concerned about there not being a stop between Clinton Street and Ashland, which is more than a mile if I’m not mistaken. There’s nothing in the middle for people to get to, not only for the residents but also for the industrial people who work in the community. Also we saw a situation ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 6, 2009
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