Tag: South Side
Why a MAC resident likes Bronzeville’s Sutherland apartments
Listen to a woman who has rented from MAC Property Management for four years in two different buildings talk about why she likes the Sutherland ap [...]
Back from the deadpool – The Shops and Lofts at 47
Tomorrow will mark six years to the day since we first wrote about The Shops and Lofts at 47. A spring 2008 groundbreaking was anticipated for the [...]
Pre-grand opening Saturday for renovated Sutherland apartments
The Sutherland, 4659 S Drexel Blvd, has a rich history. The building was built in 1917 as a military hospital, was converted to a hotel, became a [...]
Chicago plans sale of naming rights to numbered streets
Naming rights to Chicago's numbered streets will be put up for bid, according to a proposal that Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to introduce in the City [...]
Time to take a fresh look at Pilsen
I've been a long-time skeptic of the oft-repeated hype that Pilsen is poised to be transformed into a haven dominated by students, artists, hipste [...]
Englewood freight yard advances
Chicago's blighted Englewood neighborhood has seen few positive developments in the past several decades. The new campus of Kennedy – King College [...]
Visit a vanished world on Chicago’s southeast side
Wrapped in Steel is an hour-and-a-half look at South Chicago, South Deering, East Side and Hegewisch. Jim Martin shot the Emmy-nominated documenta [...]
Chicago Weekly’s Hyde Park 2013 Housing Guide
One of the things we most enjoy doing at YoChicago is finding useful resources at other websites and linking our visitors to them.
Chicago Week [...]
Silly price reductions on an Eastgate Village townhome
We last wrote about Eastgate Village, a troubled townhome / condo development on the Near South Side, back in October of 2011. At the time, 26 uni [...]
A video look at Helmut Jahn’s University of Chicago utility plants
Architect / photographer Tom Rossiter and architectural historian Jay Pridmore are teaming up on a new book titled Building Ideas; an Architectura [...]
A lovingly-renovated Bronzeville single-family
Tim and his wife were looking for a major renovation challenge when they moved from the suburbs to the part of Bronzeville known as The Gap.
Th [...]
Have home values in Englewood hit bottom?
According to Redfin statistics, the median list price for a home in Englewoodin January was $23,000 and the median price of the 8 Englewood homes [...]
A free rent deal at Bronzeville’s Lake Meadows
Five years ago today we linked to a Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily Report that Draper & Kramer planned to demolish the 1,870-unit Lake Meadows [...]
From the vault – anticipating the Olympic Village
Five years ago Chicagoans were debating whether the city would or should host the 2016 Olympics. YoChicago was noting that the city's "claim to th [...]
Can you imagine the South Side as home to a game-changing urban ideal?
Or is McCaffery Interests overly optimistic in anticipating a 25 to 45-year time frame for completion of its Lakeside development?
McCaffery In [...]
Which Chicago neighborhoods have the most foreclosures?
The Woodstock Institute recently released its report on foreclosure filings for the second half of 2012. Read the news release for a summary and a [...]
Revisiting Park Boulevard in Bronzeville
The mixed-income Park Boulevard development in Bronzeville, on the former site of Stateway Gardens, is part of the CHA's ambitious and largely-sta [...]
Arizona is almost in Indiana
Arizona is one of Hegewisch's sub-neighborhooods, and Hegewisch is at the far southeast corner of the city, bordering Indiana.
More than six ye [...]
Follow the Woodlawn Wonder’s foreclosure story
Back in 2006 a blogger calling herself the Woodlawn Wonder began writing I Hate My Developer, the saga of her efforts to solve the problems plagui [...]
Chatham “battered but vibrant,” per the New York Times
The New York Times has taken a look, in print and in video, at Chatham, a neighborhood long considered by many to be the jewel of Chicago's South [...]