Category: Apartments, rentals
Rent barometer: Chicago's East Garfield Park
This being East Garfield Park Week at YoChicago, we thought we'd give you a look at available rentals. Since we didn't see too many comparable units i [...]
Inside The Streeter: luxury apartments in Streeterville
In the second part of our series on luxury rentals, we focus on The Streeter, a 48-story, 481-unit tower located at 345 E Ohio St in Streeterville. [...]
Chicago rent barometer: Andersonville for $800
Andersonville has become the hottest pocket in Edgewater, a trend that began with the pioneering work of gay residents and has continued with an explo [...]
Inside Sky55, the luxury rental high-rise in the South Loop
Last week, we had a chance to check out Sky55, the luxury high-rise rental community at 1255 S Michigan Ave that Forest City Residential opened in M [...]
Streeterville conversion approved
The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday approved a partial conversion of Onterie Center, a 59-story high-rise at 446 E. Ontario St. in Streeterville [...]
Bronzeville rents: the difference $5 makes
Given the spate of new construction and historic restoration going on throughout Bronzeville in recent years, talk tends to focus on home sales. We [...]
Rent barometer: South Shore units from $600 to $1,350
Once an area with large Irish and Jewish populations, South Shore transformed into a predominantly African-American community during the tumultuous ' [...]
Rent barometer: single-family home for $1,600 in "The Wood"
With all of the negative headlines we're used to seeing about Englewood, it might not be the first place you'd look for a rental, but that doesn't m [...]
Suburban Chicago rental market posts modest gains
Chicago's suburban rental market posted an average occupancy rate of 97 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006, up 1 percent from the same period in 20 [...]
Chicago developers cater to high demand for apartments with large number of new buildings
Chicago's downtown apartment market is robust, with developers catering to high demand by filling the pipeline with new projects over the next few yea [...]
Chicago rent barometer: newly converted University Station
Over the last month, the lofts at University Station have been deemed "habitable" by the City of Chicago. With the number of recent loft-conversions [...]
Developer unveils plans for Kinzie Station – the neighborhood
Developer Fifield Companies' elaborates on plans for Kinzie Station, a $750 million development of six apartment towers with 2,451 units on a site bou [...]
Chicago rent barometer: so you want to rent in the Loop?
It's a safe bet there aren't many baristas renting in Chicago's Loop. We scanned some recent Craigslist ads to find out how much scratch you should [...]
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, [...]
Seven rescued from Edgewater apartment building fire
Seven residents were rescued Monday from a fire at a three-story Edgewater apartment building that had only one working smoke detector, according to a [...]
Chicago rent barometer: Pilsen from low to high
We've been scanning the apartment postings on Craigslist to see what you'll get for your money if you're renting in Pilsen. Not surprisingly, rents [...]
A cut and run strategy in Chicago
It's OK. We're not talking Iraq here.
The Sun-Times reports that an agent for The Apartment People has been arrested for allegedly slashing tires on [...]
Find your furniture at Apartment Therapy
Over at Yo's Twenty-somethings journal, vzekas is lamenting the loss of her couch and looking for a new one, so we thought we'd point our renting fr [...]
Presidential Towers up for sale
Crain's Chicago Business is reporting that Presidential Towers, the 2,346-unit behemoth in the West Loop, is being offered for sale by the Pritzker fa [...]
Kingsbury Plaza is under construction in River North
The Habitat Company's Kingsbury Plaza apartment building is well underway at 520 N Kingsbury St, with occupancy slated for summer 2007. The high-ri [...]