Category: Life in the Loop
Lunchtime music in Daley Plaza
I played music in Daley Plaza yesterday for their daily summertime concert series. We blasted out Irish jigs and reels, and rollicking songs with such [...]
Is Chicago Central Area Committee fading as Loop rebounds?
As we continue our Loop tour this week, it's hard not to note the prominent role the Chicago Central Area Committee has had in reimagining a city cent [...]
Getting up close with massive Park Monroe condos building
Clever advertising for the "monolithic box" that is The Park Monroe may distract some from the immensity of the building, but its size is something [...]
Work in progress: MoMo condos gaining momentum, nearing sell-out
MoMo, Smithfield Properties' ode to former Chicago mafia kingpin Sam "Momo" Giancana (just kidding), is starting to show how distinctive an additio [...]
Hold on to your hard hat, Yo's taking a go through the Loop
In the Loop, construction workers in concrete-stained jeans and tee shirts have become just as prevalent as white collar commodities traders in thre [...]
The Park Monroe won't star in any beauty pageants but it's got a great outlook
We've been wondering if The Park Monroe would be a hard sell. The Park Monroe is the name for the converted upper portion of the massive office buil [...]
Chicago taxis take on New York look
How about those glowy, triangular advertising doo-dahs that have been popping up on top of Chicago taxi cabs lately--the kind that New York City cabs [...]
NY Times spotlights Chicago real estate and radio
Nobody covers the waterfront quite the way the New York Times does. Yesterday's edition had a story about Millennium Park's impact on the East Loop, n [...]
More green for green roofs in downtown Chicago buildings
The Mayor has a very green approach to residential recycling: reroute cash to friends with ties to organized crime rather than wasting it on a progr [...]
South Loop dominates new construction downtown
Hard to believe that 10 years ago the flavor of South Loop came from transient hotels, storage buildings and old railroad tracks. Today, it comes from [...]
Save the date for Cloud Gate
It's official -- the ribbon-cutting dedication ceremony for Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park is set for 11 a.m. on Monday, May 1 [...]
Immigration rally draws massive turnout, mixed coverage online
Estimates are that anywhere from 400,000 to well over half a million marchers gathered in downtown Chicago yesterday to lobby for a kinder, gentler [...]
Babylon in Chicago? New condos tout green roofs
The green roof is not quite a standard perk in major downtown developments, but it's not far from it. More and more builders are including green roo [...]
Ready, aim — trickle!
Everything in Millennium Park that spits, spouts, streams or trickles will be turned on by noon tomorrow, Saturday.
That includes the popular Jaume Pl [...]
Ahoy landlubbers! It's smooth sailing at Lakeshore East
This would be quite nice to come home to, wouldn't it? It's one of two matching entryway monuments at the Lakeshore East development of high-rises on [...]
"Movin' Out" is movin back to Chicago's Auditorium Theatre
"Movin' Out," the musical based on Billy Joel's songs and choreographed by Twyla Tharp, returns to Chicago, where its pre-Broadway run began. The show [...]
Lagrange looks forward with the leaning towers of Prairie
It does our heart good to see the name of Lucien Lagrange, architect to Chicago's wealthy (think The Park Tower, 840 N. Lake Shore Drive, The Elysian, [...]
Lakeshore East's Aqua is a long drink of water
Meet Aqua, which at 82-stories, will be the tallest high-rise at the Lakeshore East development, that sits on land south of Wacker Drive and west of L [...]
Tempest in a South Loop teacup: the Burnham Pointe protest
Out for a stroll in the South Loop on Sunday afternoon, Yo stumbled across a rousing protest by a mighty throng of concerned citizens. Ok, so there we [...]
New in Loop: casino, water park, softball field!
Mayor Richard M. Daley today announced plans to turn the highly coveted parcel across from Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street, the so-cal [...]