Author: kate hawley
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Proposals abound for improving access to lakefront Trib
Ways to lose a boomer buyer Trib
"Active adult" housing for boomers Trib
Elderly face affordab [...]
Welcome to Loop Week
This week, the Yo will focus on the Loop: the neighborhood bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, Roosevelt on the south and the Chicago River on the [...]
Historic West Town State Bank Building to get first tenants in decades
A recent comment from a reader inspired us to check out the mysteriously empty eight-story mid-rise at the northwest corner of Madison and Western, [...]
Rainbo Village development begins to take shape in Uptown
The Rainbo Village development in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, which broke ground about a year ago, is finally beginning to amass some critical bu [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Chicago's daily real estate roundup
Mural slated for renovation in Chicago's West Town Trib
Overcrowding stirs tension in suburbs Trib
Highwood ditches property tax boost Trib
Imagining [...]
Near West Side packed with new construction
A rash of comments on our post about the new condos under construction at 2200 W Madison got us thinking about the Near West Side neighborhood, especi [...]
Squeezebox player finds a new corner in the Loop
When the Chicago city council voted last February to ban street musicians from Michigan Avenue between Delaware and Superior - a busy stretch of the m [...]
Olympic Village is coming to Chicago, games or no games
Mayor Daley intends to build an Olympic Village whether the 2016 Summer Olympic Games come to Chicago or not, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago [...]
Condos at 2200 Madison Estates to spruce up barren stretch of West Loop
Construction began this month on approximately 80 condos at 2200 Madison Estates, a Near West development along what used to be a blighted stretch [...]
Batavia plans to zone sex shops for industrial districts
The city of Batavia wants to keep sex-based businesses out of its retail areas, according to today's Chicago Tribune. Since the city can't ban sex sho [...]
Your chance of having a rich social life improves in the suburbs, study finds
At last, a reason not to hate sprawl: suburbanites have closer ties to their communities than city dwellers, according to a recent study (pdf). Two ec [...]
Gov. Blagojevich suspends mortgage counseling law
A law requiring home buyers with poor credit in certain South Side neighborhoods to get mortgage counseling has been suspended by Gov. Blagojevich, ac [...]
Chicago magazine looks at changes inside architecture giant Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Chicago magazine takes aim at the inner workings of the renowned architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in a story by Jay Pridmore in the Febr [...]
A deal on townhomes in Chicago's West Elsdon neighborhood
A quick survey of new townhome developments in Chicago reveals that one of the city's best bargains is at 53rd Street and Millard Avenue in West Els [...]
Art for the evolving South Loop
These panels, attached to an exterior wall of Jones College Prep, the high school at 606 S State St, seem an apt metaphor for the rapid changes in t [...]
Theater brings big bucks to the Loop, study finds
Hoping to score incentives from the city, Broadway in Chicago has commissioned a study showing how much good its productions are doing for Chicago's [...]
A peek inside the condos at The Park Monroe, a new office conversion in the Loop
The Park Monroe's condos, on six floors of converted office space at 55 E Monroe St, are speeding towards completion, company reps say, with phase [...]
"Legacy" condos in Loop will offer access to prestigious University Club
Whoever named The Legacy and The Heritage, twin condo towers overlooking Millennium Park, implied a connection to Chicago's established class. The [...]
New home for Pacific Garden Mission progressing – out of South Loop
One bellwether of the changing atmosphere in the South Loop is the planned relocation of the Pacific Garden Mission, founded in 1877. Construction o [...]
Chicago Architecture Foundation exhibit explores expanding lakefront parks
For those angling for better access to the roughly four miles of Chicago's lakefront not devoted to parkland, good news may be coming from the Chica [...]