Category: Life in the Loop
We like to watch: views from Prairie Pointe
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 one-bedro [...]
Model at The Columbian spotlights kitchen and bath finishes
I recently got a tour of a model unit at The Columbian, 1160 S Michigan Ave, which after nearly two years of construction will be ready for first mo [...]
Only 3% of unsold condos downtown are complete
"Only 3 percent of the unsold condominium inventory that builders are marketing downtown is actually completed and available for immediate occupancy.. [...]
Sales of new homes downtown sink 46%
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 report by A [...]
Testing Chicago's touted 24-hour downtown
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 Loop.
O [...]
A new grocery store for the Loop
A grocery store is coming to the building soon to be vacated by the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store, according to today's Sun-Times. City of [...]
Moving to the Loop: Tim Engel hopes for an urban getaway
Tim Engel, an insurance agent from Hinckley, Ill., was seeking "peace and quiet" when he bought a second home in the Loop. At first, he thought Wisc [...]
Retail vacancies down in the Loop – a tasty development?
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 2005. Millenni [...]
Moving to the Loop: Thinking long term, Ted Reese chooses The Legacy
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 down the road - Ree [...]
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 [...]
You want free art? The Loop's got it
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 Art Institute of Chicago [...]
Moving to the Loop: Stella Stephan will leave the suburbs for a brave new downtown
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 a secret from her father. T [...]
New Loop developments roundup
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 west to th [...]
Moving to the Loop: Graphic designer Steve Ryan chooses "Miesian aesthetic" of the Vetro
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 graphic desig [...]
Welcome to Loop Week
This week, the Yo will focus on the Loop: the neighborhood bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, Roosevelt on the south and the Chicago River on the [...]
A Loopy good time at the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
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 world wher [...]
Loop week starts underground
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 blocks beneath the [...]
Squeezebox player finds a new corner in the Loop
When the Chicago city council voted last February to ban street musicians from Michigan Avenue between Delaware and Superior - a busy stretch of the m [...]
Art for the evolving South Loop
These panels, attached to an exterior wall of Jones College Prep, the high school at 606 S State St, seem an apt metaphor for the rapid changes in t [...]
Theater brings big bucks to the Loop, study finds
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 [...]