Tag: Downtown Loop
Major rehab slated for 2101 S Michigan apartments
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust has provided $32 million in financing toward a $42 million renovation of the 250-unit, 26-story apartment tow [...]
Downtown Chicago apartments – the dark side of the boom
Crain's Chicago Business raises the possibility that 2015 may be the year in which Chicago's downtown apartment market reprises a Pink Floyd lyric [...]
A post-collegiate sorority hive on the Gold Coast?
The video from last week's rooftop pool party at 1111 N Dearborn might lead you to believe that the building's merely a hive of post-collegiate so [...]
Views, high and low, from the South Loop
The South Loop has a different perspective on Chicago's skyline, and it's often a great one.
We begin with the views from a 41st floor pen [...]
Views from the neighborhoods – and beyond
You can find surprisingly good views of Chicago's skyline in places where you aren't expecting to find them. Start with the view above, which stre [...]
Chicago views, from the west
Morning isn't the best time to capture this view from above the UIC campus, but it's still dramatic.
River North high-rises along t [...]
Views of Grant Park and Millennium Park
Grant Park is walled-in on three sides by high-rise apartment, condo and office buildings, many of which offer sweeping, forever-uninterru [...]
Views of Chicago’s near north beaches
We lead with a beach that typically garners little attention, despite the density just to its west: the beach at Olive Park.
The eastern vi [...]
Movies in the park and more at K2 Apartments
Join us for a look at Fulton River Park, just one of the many attractions near K2, the new luxury apartment tower in the Fulton River District.
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The views from Millennium Park Plaza
If you visit YoChicago with any frequency you know I'm addicted to visiting rooftops, high and low.
Yesterday I wandered the block-lon [...]
A nearly-new, large and light East Village 5-bedroom
The 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 1848 W Erie in East Village was built by Noah Properties just two years ago. It's come back on the market as a res [...]
Are new high-rise condos thinkable or un?
Crain's Chicago Business is reporting that "developers are starting to think the unthinkable" – building new high-rise condos. The Crain's report, how [...]
Tower of Pizza Hut apartments available for rent
DNAinfo reported on Friday that 1611 West Division, the 11-story building now less and less frequently referred to as the "Tower of Pizza Hut" bas [...]
Dennis Rodkin goes to heaven
Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin didn't have to die to get to a place he deems to die for, the 6-level 19th floor penthouse at 6 N Michigan in the [...]
Hot item – an East Village Noah Properties resale
The 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath Noah Properties home at 1848 W Erie in the East Village had barely been completed when I shot a video tour two years ago w [...]
More Streeterville apartments moving forward
We haven't heard much lately about Golub & Co's proposed high-rise at 410 E Grand in Streeterville, just east of its Streeter and Streeter Place devel [...]
235 Van Buren condos are a Walker’s Paradise
We've previously taken you along on a water taxi commute from 235 Van Buren, the striking Ralph Johnson-designed condo tower at the edge of the Lo [...]
Will all the new downtown apartments find renters?
The downtown Chicago apartment market will add a total of more than 5,000 new units this year and next year. Will all those new apartments find rente [...]
400 East Randolph hits the 50-year mark
The 400 Condominium Association, 400 East Randolph, will mark its 50th anniversary on August 11th, 2013, from 4 p.m. to 8 pm with a special event [...]