5/16/07
On a stroll through the South Loop Friday afternoon, I stopped by The Gammonley Group‘s Prairie Pointe at Central Station. I checked out a...
5/15/07
I recently got a tour of a model unit at The Columbian, 1160 S Michigan Ave, which after nearly two years of construction will...
5/14/07
“Only 3 percent of the unsold condominium inventory that builders are marketing downtown is actually completed and available for immediate occupancy…An abundance of completed,...
5/14/07
Sales of new homes downtown fell 46 percent during the first quarter, according to a story in Crain’s Chicago Business, which quoted a new...
2/21/07
Kiefer Sutherland had a scheduling conflict, so New Homes Magazine sent Kate Hawley (the poor man’s Jack Bauer) for a 24-hour mission in the...
2/8/07
A grocery store is coming to the building soon to be vacated by the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store, according to today’s...
2/1/07
Tim Engel, an insurance agent from Hinckley, Ill., was seeking “peace and quiet” when he bought a second home in the Loop. At first,...
2/1/07
Another sign the Loop is on the rise: Crain’s reports today that retail vacancies were down 14.6 percent last year from 16.7 percent in...
1/31/07
A time will come, says Ted Reese, when he’ll have to give up physical pursuits for “mind stimulation.” Those days are a long way...
1/31/07
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...
1/30/07
Never mind free Tuesdays, here’s free February. The amount of free art in the Loop gets a big ol’ boost next month as The...
1/30/07
For two months after she bought her condo at One Place, a 10-story tower at 1 E 8th St, Stella Stephan kept the purchase...
1/29/07
For Loop Week at YoChicago, we’ve counted more than two dozen developments in progress from the river to Roosevelt Road and from the lake...
1/29/07
Throughout Loop Week here at the Yo, we’ll bring you stories of people who’ve decided to move into the neighborhood. For Steve Ryan, a...
1/29/07
This week, the Yo will focus on the Loop: the neighborhood bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, Roosevelt on the south and the...
1/29/07
Yo’s truly spent yesterday afternoon at the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink in Millennium Park, a place which feels like its own little world, a...
1/27/07
Monday begins Loop week, and we’re kicking it off with a loopy walk through the western part of the pedway that stretches dozens of...
1/24/07
When the Chicago city council voted last February to ban street musicians from Michigan Avenue between Delaware and Superior – a busy stretch of...
1/18/07
These panels, attached to an exterior wall of Jones College Prep, the high school at 606 S State St, seem an apt metaphor for...
1/17/07
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...