1/10/08
The residents of Odyssey Lofts, 775 W. Jackson Blvd, will never want for gyros. The building is crawling distance from Halsted Street, the main...
12/27/07
A handful of hot-button real estate issues topped the Chicago Journal’s year-in-review feature this month. The weekly newspaper serves Wicker Park, Bucktown, West Town, Ukrainian Village and...
6/29/07
Kingston Mines, 2548 N Halsted St You’re drinking: A rum and coke One of Chicago’s hallmark blues establishments, Kingston Mines has two stages of...
6/28/07
Tonic Room, 2447 N Halsted St You’re drinking: a Fat Tire Tonic Room is a neat little hole-in-the-wall bar that has live music six...
6/27/07
The Lion Head Pub, 2251 N Lincoln Ave You’re drinking: a Table Tapper of anything After stopping by McGee’s, we hopped over to another DePaul-area favorite,...
6/26/07
McGee’s Tavern 950 W Webster Ave You’re drinking: a bucket of Miller Lite bottles A Lincoln Park standard in the Irish college sports bar...
6/25/07
Squeezed between the retail, residential and culinary gems of Lincoln Park, there are also several bars. Make that a ton of bars. From traditional...
6/9/07
While we were checking out Chase Park Commons, 4717 N Clark, the other day, we also spotted Leland Park Condominium (yes, it’s singular) around...
6/5/07
While we’re on the topic of new South Loop businesses, it’s big news for the ‘hood that Room21, a former Al Capone brewery-turned-bistro, recently...
5/29/07
We’ve posted about the restaurant scene in the West Loop, but we haven’t been to Butter, 130 S Green St. But this mural on...
5/27/07
It starts at 9 tonight, at the Victor Hotel. Dress white, and don’t plan on staying overnight.
5/23/07
West Randolph Street is not the only place you can get a nice meal in the West Loop, but it is the place where...
4/26/07
Beverly – quiet, historic and solidly residential – isn’t immune to change, as we learned recently while chatting with Marcia Walsh of the Beverly...
4/6/07
Hardly anyone passing this corner thinks twice about the Brehon Pub, on the 700 block of North Wells St, in River North, these days,...
3/13/07
The gay sports bar Crew, 4804 N Broadway, has built a loyal following in Uptown over the past few months – we know this...
3/6/07
When businessman Nick Novich decides to open a new bar, he picks a neighborhood that he thinks could use some pioneering. Last summer, Novich,...
2/22/07
The ski lodge-style open fireplaces, the wood plank booths with the burnt-orange vinyl padding, the stained glass signs over the bathrooms, the candles that...
2/22/07
The conversion of an old industrial laundry at 5427 N Broadway St into Broadway Village Lofts is still underway. Yo’s truly hasn’t yet checked...
1/15/07
The short-lived Irish traditional music session on Sundays at The Atlantic Bar & Grill, 5062 N. Lincoln Ave. (773-506-7090), has been shelved for the...
1/12/07
Anyone looking for something to do tonight on the South Side should consider catching a concert by Chicago folk rocker Michael McDermott at the...