Author: alison
A neighborhood bar in the Loop
One good reason to take the Loop seriously as a neighborhood: You can drink, Prohibition-style, at Cardozo's Pub, a little-known bar in the basement o [...]
The pedway makes life easier for the Loop's new residents
Life is pretty sweet for people living at the new downtown highrise The Heritage at Millennium Park. First of all they have a neighborhood full of gre [...]
A wedding in the Chicago pedway
We knew the pedway had a certain romance to it, but we didn't realize it was home to the city's Marriage Court. For 22 years, couples have been saying [...]
Rediscovering the Chicago pedway
What's three miles long, eight feet wide and snakes its way past 50 different buildings? Damn it. The headline gave it away.
How come we never hear a [...]
Developers prepare to pitch South Shore to Chicago homebuyers
South Shore - do you know it yet? We're told that a bunch of developers are getting together to hire a PR person to introduce Chicago homebuyers to th [...]
Electric cars, convenient retail — the Loop of the future
Browsing around the city's Department of Planning and Development Web site this week, we came across a document detailing Mayor Daley's plans for tran [...]
More Chicago condo deals…
Back on the topic of homes for under $200,000 (by that we mean new-construction and rehabs), we found a couple more today.
In Streeterville, the form [...]
Chicago for under $200,000
Depressing news for first-home buyers: it's getting harder and harder to find a condo under $200,000 in Chicago and it's only going to get worse, with [...]
A Packer invades Soldier Field
Mike Wier is one brave developer. Wier, who sits on the board of the Green Bay Packers football team, is heading up the new Casablanca Lofts project a [...]
340 on the Park construction update
The 340 0n the Park development, an ultra-luxury highrise, is slowly taking shape over at Lakeshore East. [...]
Loop real estate – better odds than an Indiana casino
Now we know what we should have been doing two years ago - plonking down money on a highrise condo in the Loop.
The median price for condos has leapt [...]
Shopping in upscale Chicago neighborhoods
Has anyone else ever gone into a store in an upscale Chicago neighborhood and wondered what the hell they were actually selling or how they managed [...]
The Loop's hidden gems
We've been chatting here at YoChicago about how the Loop is full of little bars and restaurants and the like, that are tucked away from sight. Now tha [...]
Young skaters need a facility on the New East Side
What do you do when you are a teenager who enjoys skateboarding but you live in a downtown highrise, the sport is prohibited in the surrounding street [...]
Lakeshore East starting to look like a neighborhood
How do you turn a collection of highrises into a community?
Add a park. It seems to be working at Lakeshore East, the new mixed-use development betwe [...]
A Chicago highrise with views – of other highrises
This particular YoChicagoan isn't a big fan of highrises but I've always admired their killer views. The downside is that there's often a good chance [...]
What's in store at The Armitage Collection?
We've talked before about the elaborate shopping options available along Armitage Avenue in Lincoln Park, including shops that sell ski parkas for dog [...]
Chicago in the age of Trump
Take a good hard look at the old Sun-Times site by the river, before it, just like Wrigley Field, undergoes a transformation. It won't be long before [...]
Wabash Avenue – romantic or blighted?
Judging from responses to our earlier post, Wabash Avenue has its share of admirers, who think the old el track metalwork has a certain urban romance [...]
Lofty Ambitions
Latest lofts offer new finishes in new neighborhoods
On one side of West Belmont Avenue just before Pulaski Road stands an old abandoned shoe factory [...]