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The 27-story apartment tower at 2 E 8th St, now a student dorm, was built in 1984. My last tour of the building was in the early 90s, but I clearly recall an aura of failure pervading it. What I don’t recall clearly is how much of that aura was created by the manager who ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 15, 2013
The Pickwick Stable, 22 E Jackson, is architecture blogger Wayne Lorentz’s “all-time favorite most unusual Chicago building.” You can learn some of the building’s history at Chicago Architecture Info. The Pickwick Stable, together with the adjoining Gibbons and Steger buildings, are being converted into 160 student housing units by Campus Acquisitions LLC, whose website also ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 28, 2013
A Crain’s Chicago Real Estate Daily article on student housing reminded me that I’d been meaning to check into the status of Fornelli Hall, a student housing development that occupies a number of floors at the Pittsfield Building, 55 E Washington, in the Loop. I’d been hearing that some of the apartments in the building ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 24, 2013
Put 10 students from local universities in a 5-bedroom, 2-bath apartment at $700 a month each and you have a $7,000 a month rental at La Casa in Pilsen. The monthly rate’s not out of line with other student housing in downtown Chicago. If anything, it’s toward the lower end of the range, and it ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 1, 2012
The Sun-Times is reporting on a proposed conversion of 20 and 28 E Jackson, and the Pickwick Stable between the two buildings, into 199 units of furnished graduate student housing. The location is directly opposite the DePaul Center and DePaul’s College of Law. According to the Sun-Times: The stable between the two buildings survived the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 22, 2012
According to the Chicago Loop Alliance (pdf), more than 65,000 students attend classes in the Loop / South Loop area. Downtown Chicago campuses include East-West University, DePaul University, Columbia College, Roosevelt University, Northwestern’s law and medical schools, and Robert Morris University, to name just a few. One downtown student residence building, in fact, bills itself ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 12, 2011
1237 West Fullerton is privately-operated housing for up to 590 DePaul University students, and it’s currently offering a month’s free rent. The 2011-12 rates start at $990 per month for four students sharing a tight 4-bedroom, 2-bath unit totally lacking in closet space – not even a coat closet. But hey, you’re so close to ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 30, 2011
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