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The Yo Yos: Hottest Bargain, Most Overpriced Development
Yo! Today's Yo Yos are brought to you by Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band (hey, don't kick our asses for dissing your mom, blame this seven-member ensembl [...]
Comer Youth Center and Aqua make Lynn Becker's list of top 10 architectural happenings for '06
Architecture writer Lynn Becker has compiled a list for the Chicago Reader of the "10 most important things" in Chicago architecture in 2006.
Among h [...]
The Yo Yos: Best City Initiative, Worst Case of City Neglect
Today's installment of the Yo Yos gives you the opportunity to give brickbats and bouquets to the city for its urban planning initiatives. Our host f [...]
Yo's holiday gift guide: Check out these books
Yo! If you're still debating gift ideas for that architecture lover or Chicago history buff in your life, consider these picks from The University of [...]
Yo '07: Predictions from developer Michael Maier of MCL Companies
Chicago home prices will flatten out but not necessarily drop in 2007, according to MCL Companies president Michael Maier. The developer of Streetervi [...]
Who should develop the Solo Cup site on the Far South Side?
Now we know what Appraisal Research Counsellor's Gail Lissner was probably referring to when she said that 2007 would be the year of redeveloping old [...]
The Yo Yos: Most Luxurious Development, Best Conversion Project
Well, it's Day Three of the wildly successful Yo Yos, Chicago real estate's People's Choice Awards. Today's host is French-born Chinese-American virtu [...]
The Yo Yos: Most Overpriced Nabe, Most Improved Nabe
Due to popular demand, Day Two of The Yo Yos, Chicago real estate's answer to The People's Choice Awards, is hosted by the early '90s rapper Yolanda [...]
Yo '07: Top real estate agent says Chicago will be a buyer's market
Expect to see a flurry of first-time buyers browsing an oversupplied housing market in spring 2007, says Charles Huzenis of Jameson Realty Group. With [...]
The Yo Yos: The People's Choice Awards for Chicago real estate
(Drum roll...) Well here 'tis, the inaugural Yo Yos, a sort of People's Choice Awards for Chicago Real Estate, where we ask you, dear readers, to vot [...]
Yo '07: Are we headed for 10 percent price drops?
The price of homes in many parts of downtown Chicago, outerlying neighborhoods and the suburbs could flatten out or even drop as much as 10 percent in [...]
Yo '07: Punditry and predictions from yo favorite Chicago real estate Web site
That's right. As the quirky and capricious year that was rolls to a close, Yo's truly is asking the expert, the everyman and the truly ignorant for th [...]
Chicago open house: Lake View (or is it Lower Uptown?) three-bedroom condos in the $480s
Jaded with the standard granite / cherry cabinets / stainless steel combo deal? Rubloff is marketing three-bedroom units with kitchen islands complet [...]
POW Lofts at McKinley Park?
Next to McKinley Park Lofts on Pershing Road (near Western Boulevard) is a slew of old brick warehouses that once made up the largest (and first, we' [...]
A winter's afternoon in McKinley Park
Somebody was colder than I was on Tuesday out at McKinley Park. This little guy has the coat for it, but I could have sworn he was shivering. The lag [...]
Huron Street Lofts sells seven condos at auction
A few readers asked us about the outcome of an auction at Huron Street Lofts earlier this month. Well here's your update: Opening bids for the one-bed [...]
Blog alleges political "gang-vertising" in Rogers Park
The folks over at The Broken Heart of Rogers Park blog claim to have found some "gang-vertising" on local street walls. Gang-vertising, they say, is p [...]
Critics fear Calatrava's larger Chicago Spire will cause havoc in Streeterville
The debate continues over Santiago Calatrava's new design for the much-anticipated Chicago Spire. Most of the discussion so far has focused on the ae [...]
Yo ho ho: A McKinley Park Christmas
First we brought you holiday greetings from Bridgeport, now we present Christmas in McKinley Park. These homes are located on a residential street ju [...]
Seven people hospitalized after concrete falls from Chicago high-rise construction site
The city will inspect a high-rise under construction at State and Randolph streets on Thursday after concrete fell from the 24th floor of the structur [...]