Author: kate hawley
Comment of the day: sick about South Loop condos
Our post on Coliseum Park Condominiums had Sam retching: "This thing truly looks like it could be located in just about any schlocky suburb - and it's [...]
Fairmont Chicago drops its hotel condo element
Fairmont Chicago, the hotel just north of Millennium Park, at the end of February dropped plans to sell 88 units as hotel condominiums, Yo learned tod [...]
Ripped from the headlines: no more dorms for DePaul upperclassmen
Not much left on the sub-prime lending menu Mortgage Reports
All juniors and seniors no longer eligible for campus housing DePaulia
Plans underwa [...]
Designing your week: celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright's mom
YoChicago's architecture journal, City spaces, city places, brings you another week of architecture events in Chicago. Feel free to add events for the [...]
Window of the day: musical tin men in Bronzeville
This window caught our eye on the 3300 block of South Giles Avenue. [...]
Coliseum Park Condos slated to break ground next month in South Loop
Coliseum Park Condominiums, a 39-unit development scheduled to break ground in about a month at 1440 S Wabash in the South Loop, doesn't bear much r [...]
Comment of the day: Presidential Towers is no Ritz
We described Presidential Towers as "one of the city's ritziest rentals" in our post on an alleged bedbug infestation at the high-rise. Keith took us [...]
Ripped from the headlines: a bigger landmark district for Ukrainian Village?
Ukrainian Village landmark area likely to expand Trib
Foreclosure rescue group sued by Illinois Attorney General Mortgage Fraud Blog
29 states (b [...]
Holy bedbugs! Suit accuses Presidential Towers of infestation
Three tenants of Presidential Towers, the West Loop high-rise, yesterday filed a lawsuit claiming they've had bedbugs since last fall, according to t [...]
Architect for Lincoln Park conversion aims for an old-world feel
We posted recently on the Hannibal Lecter-esque scaffolding covering the facade of 1919 N Sheffield, a gut rehab currently underway in Lincoln Park f [...]
Quote of the day: no shame in SROs
"This building was intended to be a stigma smasher. All of us deserve to live in beautiful spaces and healthy environments with beautiful views."
- C [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Helmut Jahn-designed SRO to open
Blair Kamin on Helmut Jahn's new SRO Trib
State sues mortgage companies in homeowner scam Trib
Falor seeking extension on Hotel 71 loan Crain's
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Quote of the day: Troutman's last stand
"But it seems to be some kind of conspiracy...some kind of real conspiracy. But this conspiracy isn't on Arenda Troutman. It's on the people. The peop [...]
Lathrop Homes makes Landmarks Illinois' endangered list
Lathrop Homes, the public housing complex at Diversey and Damen, has made Landmarks Illinois' list of 10 most endangered historic places for 2007, the [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Troutman, Natarus voted out
Rough night for City Council incumbents Trib
Natarus defeated Trib
Chicago home sales down in January Trib
Green building boom hits Chicago Metro [...]
Chicago's hotel condo market a slow burn, says hotel consultant
With at least 10 hotel condo developments underway in Chicago, among them Trump International Hotel & Tower (pictured), Mandarin Oriental Tower, Wat [...]
Irving Park Manor condos slated to break ground at Chicago's northwest border
If you're looking for the leafy, residential feeling of suburbia but you're loathe to give up your 773, Irving Park Manor, a condo development plann [...]
Comment of the day: take that, investor buyers
Our post on the effect of the cooling market on investor buyers inspired this rant from schadenfreude sister:
"I suppose it's not very nice, but fran [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Carley plans another Loop high-rise
Developer Carley plans tower at Columbus and Illinois Trib
U.S. home resales rise Bloomberg
Is the fix in for the Farwell? Repeat
Naperville lan [...]
Designing your week: Jeanne Gang to discuss Aqua
YoChicago's architecture journal City Spaces, City Places has the word on another week of architecture and design events in Chicago. Feel free to add [...]