Tag: Wicker Park
Where does Wicker Park end and Bucktown begin?
The headline question is posed at Bucktown – Wicker Park Patch:
The boundaries between Chicago's neighborhoods can be difficult to define, and [...]
New construction checkup at the Polish Triangle
East Village residents prevailed in their wish for higher-density development on the site where a Pizza Hut once stood at 1601 W Division St. The [...]
What happened to Wicker Park?
The Talk section of Yelp occasionally surfaces a fun and informative discussion of Chicago neighborhoods. Several days ago Yelper Chacha M posted [...]
A new Wicker Park home sold at near list price before completion
By the time I met Sergio & Banks' Demetrius Simpson at a nearly-completed Noah Properties' home in Wicker Park late last December, it was already [...]
Studio Dwell project in Wicker Park garners two Yo posts for every unit
Well, nearly two posts for every unit.
It was almost exactly five years ago when we first wrote about a 9-unit project designed by Studio Dwell [...]
The Bloomingdale Trail and the High Line
It seems like every article about Chicago's Bloomingdale Trail contains a mandatory reference to New York's High Line.
Last Saturday I [...]
A newer Wicker Park home with great outdoor space
The 3-bedroom, 3 1/2 bath home at 1515 N Paulina St in Wicker Park has large rooms throughout, a recently-updated kitchen / family room and an att [...]
Two straight lines in Chicago housing report
Compiling market statistics in Chicago neighborhoods has usually meant looking at a lot of jagged (and mostly downward-pointing) lines over the la [...]
Wicker Park condo built in 1895 survived Chicago fire
The ad copy at Craigslist for a Wicker Park for sale by owner condo contains these amusing assertions:
Sun Filled Vintage Condo In Historical L [...]
Neighborhood vignette – Higher-class Milwaukee pimps dropping hookers in Bucktown
We're always on the lookout for good neighborhood sites with news feeds to scan for our Chicago Real Estate News page. Today we found Our Urban Ti [...]
Coven of NIMBYs goes bonkers over Division and Ashland site
The proposed redevelopment of the former Pizza Hut site at Division and Ashland has evoked a flurry of pleas to 1st Ward Ald. Proco Joe Moreno to [...]
New York’s High Line and Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail
The Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail has this vision for the abandoned rail line that runs through several near northwest side neighborhoods:
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Do murals denote a depressed community?
I have a bias about murals: I associate their creation with communities that have declined and are likely to remain in a state of decline. I s [...]
Preview thirteen Sunday open houses in a YoChicago video extravaganza
Thirteen Chicago homes at which we've shot video recently are open for viewing on Sunday, May 22. Preview the homes in our videos, then head out to yo [...]
Checking in on North Avenue’s retail scene
After confirming that we could find plenty of homes for rent in Bucktown simply by driving the neighborhood's streets, Joe Zekas and I drove along [...]
Summit Design + Build to finish Division Street dustbunny
If you've been in the 1800 block of Division Street in recent years, you've surely noticed the unfinished building at the northwest corner of Divi [...]
A ‘vanilla box’ in Wicker Park, priced below $500K
The lowest-priced single-family home in Wicker Park, excluding a short sale listing at 1234 N Marion Ct (marketed as a "hot Bucktown location", de [...]
High ceilings, light-filled living areas, and great outdoor spaces at a Wicker Park duplex
Last Friday Eric Rojas of Prudential Rubloff took me through 1250 N Wolcott Ave #1, a two-bedroom / two-bath duplex-down in Wicker Park that he re [...]
What’s selling in Wicker Park’s single-family market?
The first quarter of 2011 ends in a couple of weeks, at which point Realtors will begin poring over sales data for signs where the market stands g [...]
Construction checkup: 2028 West Division
I haven't spent a lot of time on Division Street lately -- not during the day, at least -- so it wasn't until this afternoon that I got a good loo [...]