Category: Apartments, rentals
Chicago rent barometer: slim pickings in Beverly / Morgan Park
If you're looking to rent in Beverly / Morgan Park, an area dominated by owner-occupied single-family homes, your choices are likely to be slim. We sc [...]
Smith Village revamps senior housing in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood
Major new-construction projects are few and far between in settled Beverly, with a couple of notable exceptions. At Smith Village, New Life Manageme [...]
First phase at Park Boulevard 50 percent sold
Park Boulevard, a 1,300-unit development in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, is moving along - currently, the 311-unit first phase is well underwa [...]
Kingsbury Plaza brings luxury rentals to River North
Condos aren't the only things filling the high-rises headed up in River North. The Habitat Company is renting studio to two-bedroom luxury apartmen [...]
Chicago rent barometer: walk to work from River North
River North might be a good place to camp out while the CTA tries to sort itself out over the next two years - the neighborhood is walking distance [...]
Lake Park Crescent switches developers for second phase
The Davis Group, headed by veteran developer and investor Allison Davis, will take on the second phase of Lake Park Crescent, a mixed-income develop [...]
Lake Park Crescent's first for-sale homes to break ground
The building boom underway in the North Kenwood / Oakland neighborhood continues with 68 new homes at Lake Park Crescent, one of the developments r [...]
Chicago rent barometer: the Northwest Side
Unless you fly out of O'Hare every other day, or hop on I-90 to commute to the 'burbs, the Northwest Side doesn't have too much to reccomend it in t [...]
Chicago rent barometer: what's affordable in Woodlawn
Our post yesterday about new condos in Woodlawn sparked some spirited debate about whether development in the area is providing enough affordable ho [...]
Drug testing for every tenant required at two mixed-income developments
The new mixed-income developments that are replacing troubled CHA housing projects have stringent rules for former CHA tenants: to be allowed back, th [...]
Chicago rent barometer: Sauganash a haven of single-family homes
The Sauganash neighborhood has long been considered one of Chicago's finest places to raise a family. It's generally easier to find a single-family h [...]
Chicago rent barometer: being a UIC student can be expensive
Looking to rent a place near the University of Illinois at Chicago? Well, unless you work in the Medical District and can afford to pay part of the [...]
Chicago rent barometer: living by the lake
As the winds howling across Lake Michigan begin to lose their punishing chill, the idea of renting along Chicago's lakefront looks more and more app [...]
Rental high-rise under construction in South Loop
We know that you can't trip in the South Loop without landing in a construction site, but not all of those buildings going up are condo. A rental hi [...]
Chicago rent barometer: scoping out South Triangle
This being South Triangle Week at YoChicago, we thought we'd give you a look at a few available rentals. We figured that an area that includes all o [...]
Construction update: The Tides is high
There's an awful lot going on at Lakeshore East, and The Tides is at the center of it all. The 51-story rental building will have 607 studio to two- [...]
BusinessWeek.com rates top cities for artists – and Chicago doesn't make the cut
We were perplexed to see that Chicago isn't on BusinessWeek.com's list of top 10 places for artists to live, losing out to Carson City, Nev., and Nass [...]
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 [...]
Chicago rent barometer: $500 or less
Let's say you just got off a Greyhound and you're standing at the station with nothing but a broken guitar, your dreams and $800. Sure, that $400 a [...]
Chicago rent barometer: corporate splendor in River North
If you're one of those people who turns green with envy walking the streets of well-heeled River North, you'll burst out of your coat like The Incre [...]