Category: Life in the Loop
Millennium Park bean update
Close to three years after it was unveiled, Anish Kapoor's monumental sculpture, Cloud Gate, will be completely open to the public. City officials s [...]
The hotels are coming, the hotels are coming!
Not since the Peninsula arrived close to five years ago has there been so much high-end hotel buzz in dowtown Chicago. Trump Tower is starting to actu [...]
New Aqua high-rise makes waves at Lakeshore East
If you wanted a piece of the new Lakeshore East residential development nestled between the lake and the river on the New East Side, but mercurial inv [...]
May flowers be in your future
On a brutal day like today it's good to remind yourself that it won't last forever.
Soon your City in a Garden will return to being a city in a gard [...]
Mamet's creative secret
As David Mamet Festival begins this weekend at the Goodman Theatre I am reminded of the wise words of Mamet as related to a friend of a friend of a fr [...]
Downtown housing volume rose 67% in 15 years
Some numbers from a new housing report just caught our collective eye. In 1990, downtown Chicago had about 48,000 housing units, according to housing [...]
Jimmy's cocktail book
Heaven on Seven chef/owner Jimmy Bannos, he of the famous red headband, kicked out a romping stomping pre-Mardi Gras party last night at his original [...]
Chicago's luxury rentals are a big hit
It seems that everywhere you turn these days there is a luxury rental building going up. First there was the conversion of The Bernadin, then came The [...]
340 on the Park construction update
The 340 0n the Park development, an ultra-luxury highrise, is slowly taking shape over at Lakeshore East. [...]
Loop real estate – better odds than an Indiana casino
Now we know what we should have been doing two years ago - plonking down money on a highrise condo in the Loop.
The median price for condos has leapt [...]
The Loop's hidden gems
We've been chatting here at YoChicago about how the Loop is full of little bars and restaurants and the like, that are tucked away from sight. Now tha [...]
Young skaters need a facility on the New East Side
What do you do when you are a teenager who enjoys skateboarding but you live in a downtown highrise, the sport is prohibited in the surrounding street [...]
Wabash Avenue – romantic or blighted?
Judging from responses to our earlier post, Wabash Avenue has its share of admirers, who think the old el track metalwork has a certain urban romance [...]
Wabash Avenue to get a Botox shot
Wabash Avenue, the ugly stepsister of Michigan Avenue and State Street, is headed for the spa.
In spring, the metalwork of the overhanging el statio [...]
We've been around the Block 37 too many times
After many long years the city was finally daring to hope that Block 37 would flower into the promised land of 108 North State Street, with hotels, re [...]