Category: Neighborhood journal
A tour of Wilmette teardowns
There was the occasional scent of lilacs this weekend as I scanned the waste land of Wilmette teardowns. My mission: photographing the more than 1 [...]
Memorial day on the ground
The 1700 block of Forest Avenue in Wilmette. [...]
If you must live near a bookstore
We know it's not always first on everyone's house-hunting list, but there are some people who have to have a bookstore near where they live.
Oh happy [...]
Headline of the day: Eat it, Music Box
Erica Gunderson, YoChicago's johnny-on-the-spot in Irving Park, shows a little neighborhood pride, feistiness even, about what looks like the resurr [...]
Top real estate site (ok, it's us) unveils Chicago neighborhood photo galleries
We might be biased, but we think we have the best, most colorful, most informative, most honest and most entertaining photo galleries of Chicago's l [...]
Wicker Park graffiti gets metaphysical
Sometimes being in Wicker Park is like walking the woods of A Midsummer Night's Dream. We spotted this little number at Ashland Avenue just north of [...]
West Loop debates higher densities and appropriate mix of retail
We hear that as at least one development company is trying to convince West Loopers to allow higher-density development in their neighborhood by telli [...]
Cabrini gone and unlamented
Thanks to Chicagoist for the pointers to Gangsta City, a full-length documentary filmed entirely at the near-defunct Cabrini-Green housing project.
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Where are the kid-friendly restaurants in Chicago?
Making the transition from DINK to young parent must be tough, so we thought we'd compile a little list of kid-friendly eateries. For those who are of [...]
Take an in-depth look at Streeterville's high-flying condo towers
We've had a flurry, a slurry, a veritable plethura of posts lately about high-rise condo development in Streeterville. Get the bigger picture and th [...]
Souvlaki with a side of skid row in Greek Town
Yo's truly spent Tuesday afternoon wandering through Greek Town. It was a gorgeous spring day, people were dining al fresco (or whatever they call it [...]
Lincoln Square grab bag: new businesses, bad dogs and worse monuments
Chicagoist starts its day with a review of the Bad Dog Tavern, one of many newish places in booming Lincoln Square. In the interests of full disclos [...]
More gunfire than some neighborhoods
That's one resident's take on Evanston, at Gapers Block's open thread on the pros and cons of various Chicago neighborhoods. Head on over for the insi [...]
Terrapin's Toy Town in the West Loop
Construction is well underway at Terrapin Properties' 901 Madison, the company's third mid-rise in the West Loop. The project is about 55 percent so [...]
You can't take the farm out of the city
There's a sad irony in seeing farmers whose land is increasingly being bought up and replaced with Walgreen's, Sprint stores, Starbucks and housing su [...]
Cabrini-Green on NBC5 tonight, but real story goes unreported
Tonight's obligatory viewing on the tube: NBC5 is doing a segment on Cabrini-Green called Life on the Green, at 10 p.m. It will explore life in public [...]
City must act on deadly driving after death of little Maya Hirsch
When my husband rode up to me on his bicycle with an ashen face and close to tears on Saturday afternoon I knew that something was wrong. He'd just se [...]
Suffer the cow but not the cocoa in the West Loop
Amid all the fuss about the EPA forcing Blommer to implement pollution abatement measures that will curtail the sweet whiff of cocoa in the West Loop, [...]
Trice defends Chicago neighborhood mapmaker dumped by CAR, CPS
Dawn Turner Trice laments in a column today that the big, bad Goliath of the Chicago Public School bureaucracy stomped on a poor David in the shape of [...]
Wilmette yard sale season in full swing
There were dozens of yard sales in Wilmette on this crisp sunny Sunday, and all of them seemed to be drawing visitors.
Wilmette's a tradition-bou [...]