Category: Events, entertainment

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Designing your week: the dish on the Spire and the CTA

The final design for The Chicago Spire, the spiralling high-rise proposed for the downtown lakefront, will be presented at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 26 [...]
Cafe Duvall brings culture to the Heart of Italy

Cafe Duvall brings culture to the Heart of Italy

Cafe Duvall (2257 W 23rd Pl) may not be Italian, but it's playing an important role in the neighborhood surrounding the Heart of Italy. Watch as Jac [...]

An inside look at outsider art: Intuit's 2007 house tours

We're shameless real estate voyeurs here at YoChicago, so we couldn't resist pointing out what look like some of the coolest house tours in the city. [...]

Designing your week: "A House for an Ecologist"

"A House for an Ecologist" sought plans for a home and work space for an ecologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the National Conservatio [...]
I.C.E. Chatham 14 is a neighborhood institution

I.C.E. Chatham 14 is a neighborhood institution

It's no secret that many African-American communities on the South Side lack a neighborhood movie theater. The I.C.E. Chatham 14, at 210 W. 87th St. [...]
Mather's is more than just a cafe to Chatham

Mather's is more than just a cafe to Chatham

Many neighborhoods have well-loved cafes, but few are as integral to the community as Mather's is to Chatham and its environs. From the outside, Ma [...]
Developer talks Spire tonight

Developer talks Spire tonight

Fans of supertall skyscrapers or Irish accents will want to drop by the Chicago Architecture Foundation tonight to hear Dubliner Garrett Kelleher di [...]

Designing your week: SOM's Jessica Mondo on living green

Jessica Mondo of Chicago architecture giant Skidmore, Owings and Merrill will discuss how residential high-rise dwellers can live green and save on en [...]
Hashbrowns in University Village distinctly Chicago

Hashbrowns in University Village distinctly Chicago

Hashbrowns Cafe in University Village may be new, but it's also got some pretty deep roots to Bridgeport's Franco's and Beverly's Franconello's. Mana [...]
Barbara's Bookstore of University Village grows with its neighbors

Barbara's Bookstore of University Village grows with its neighbors

As the residential areas surrounding University Village continue to fill out, some retail strips in the area are begining to approach a level of mat [...]
Chicago's Bohemian Rhapsody: more on how artists (and art) affect neighborhoods

Chicago's Bohemian Rhapsody: more on how artists (and art) affect neighborhoods

Yesterday's discussion about Chicago's absence from Businessweek.com's ranking of top 10 cities for artists drew some heated responses, like this on [...]

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 [...]

Annoyance Productions is an important addition to the nascent Uptown entertainment precinct

Annoyance Productions settled into its new home at 4840 N Broadway last summer and the theater company is a great addition to a sketchy section of Upt [...]
Stranger Than Fiction shines a light on Chicago Architecture

Stranger Than Fiction shines a light on Chicago Architecture

Beyond proving that Will Ferrell can act, the film Stranger Than Fiction also defies the cliched image of Chicago we're used to seeing on the big sc [...]

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 [...]

High taxes deter some retailers from moving into Uptown

High property taxes and correspondingly high rents deter many smaller retailers from setting up shop in Uptown and other Chicago neighborhoods, says J [...]
Walton on the Park opening this weekend

Walton on the Park opening this weekend

Walton on the Park, the two-tower River North development from The Enterprise Companies and Mesirow Financial Real Estate, will officially open for [...]

Designing your week: global warming, utopian visions

It's another week packed with architecture and design events in Chicago. YoChicago's architecture journal City Spaces, City Places fills you in. Click [...]
Early warning: Gang to spill on Aqua

Early warning: Gang to spill on Aqua

Friends of Downtown has joined YoChicago in our Loop journal. For its first post, the group alerted us that Studio / Gang / Architects principal Jea [...]

Preservationists to get nod at "Legendary Landmarks" gala

Art dealer Richard Gray and arts patron John H. Bryan will be honored for their successful effort to keep Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's renowned Farnswor [...]
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