Category: Life in the Loop
"Legacy" condos in Loop will offer access to prestigious University Club
Whoever named The Legacy and The Heritage, twin condo towers overlooking Millennium Park, implied a connection to Chicago's established class. The [...]
New home for Pacific Garden Mission progressing – out of South Loop
One bellwether of the changing atmosphere in the South Loop is the planned relocation of the Pacific Garden Mission, founded in 1877. Construction o [...]
Update: dance all night in Chicago's Loop
We've already given you a heads up on Looptopia, the Chicago Loop Alliance's all-night arts and cultural festival in the Loop. The Chicago Tribune t [...]
Coming soon to South Loop: new Blackstone hotel
The Yo spent lunch with the Friends of Downtown at its monthly "brown bag luncheon," where we were treated to a sneak peek at plans for the renovate [...]
Chicago wine auction moves north
The esteemed Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is moving its auctions north. The Chicago based company, which sells rare wines, is changing the venue of its co [...]
Turkey Day with a Jewish flair every day in the Loop
You will not find it on the menu--or at least I didn't--but if you ask your server (as I did the other day) to have the kitchen whip up a turkey reube [...]
Millennium Park — a sense of neighborhood
Last Thursday, The Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate at Roosevelt University, presented a number of perspectives on the redevelopment of Chicago's [...]
Is the Loop transforming into the perfect neighborhood? A veritable Looptopia?
We've written in the past about the evolution of the Loop district into a distinct neighborhood in its own right and a vibrant one, at that. So we're [...]
A walk in Millennium Park: Ever wish you bought a condo around there?
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, of course, but does anyone else regret not buying a condo with kick-ass views in the Loop two or three years ago? Or [...]
The Donald isn't laughing about this condo development
Get ready. As if there aren't enough luxury high-rise buildings already on their way up, Chicagoist reports today that the building formerly known as [...]
Lollapalooza costumes come to Chicago
Tourists walking around the Loop near Grant Park this weekend may have thought the circus was in town and the performers had free reign of the place. [...]
Strapping lass Park Monroe goes under the knife
When we heard that the top section of 55 E. Monroe St. was being converted into condos we were skeptical to say the least. Would location, location [...]
Does Park Monroe make you horny, baby?
When Yo heard that buyers at the new Park Monroe conversion (the office building at 55 E. Monroe St.) could opt for leather floors, we did a double- [...]
A hot weekend at Millennium Pool
Ah, Millennium Park. We can barely remember what life was like before you came along. Well, we would probably have been at the lake at the weekend, [...]
Hot tea in the summertime
There's no shame in iced tea, but let's think about it in the way it was intended--hot. And let's think about it as we head into the most sizzling par [...]
Watching the Taste from Metropolitan Tower condos
Workers at Metropolitan Tower, the conversion of the former Britannica Center into condominiums, have unbeatable views of the Taste of Chicago, acro [...]
Cool kids rank Second City 7th among hip places to live
The Windy Onion ranks 7th among American cities in a rating by college-educated 25- to 34-year-olds of places they'd like to live, though to read the [...]
The Debattanization of the language
Don DeBat's latest New Homes Magazine column suggests that downtown Chicago is undergoing a process of "Manhattanization."
You'd have to add gallons [...]
Waterview Tower leaves small footprint on Wacker Drive
It's hard to believe this small plot of land on the corner of Clark St and Wacker Dr will soon be home to one of the tallest buildings in Chicago. [...]
Call Superman! Only two new condos left in Metropolis!
Metropolis, at State and Monroe Streets in the Loop, somehow manages to retain the classy, big-city glamour implied in its advertising even with Za [...]