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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
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
WBEZ has surfaced a video from 1940 sketching the master plan for Chicago’s “superhighway” and subway systems. You can either lament or celebrate the crosstown (north / south) highway and subway systems that never came to pass. In the nearly 20-minute video you can watch the sinking of the tubes that carry the Red Line ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 15, 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
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
Google says a lot of readers have been coming here in search of news on Catalpa Gardens, that big homage to IKEA stores and Chicago Cards looming over the Red Line in Edgewater. I think I know why — the place appears to be riddled with short sales. Of the 12 units currently listed at ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on July 16, 2010
Loyola‘s facilities take up a lot of area directly around the Red Line station at Sheridan Road and Loyola Avenue in Rogers Park, so it’s not surprising to see few homes for sale in the immediate vicinity. The three closest units are all two-bedrooms on Loyola Avenue, one just north of the university and near ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on July 13, 2010
One block south of the Red Line station at Morse and Glenwood avenues in Rogers Park is this new-ish five-unit building at 1416 W Farwell Ave, home to two three-bedroom condos listed as cash-only short sales. One, a duplex-down with two baths, is listed in the $120s; the other, a third-floor “penthouse” with 2.5 baths, ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on July 6, 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
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