5/29/06
There was the occasional scent of lilacs this weekend as I scanned the waste land of Wilmette teardowns. My mission: photographing the more than...
5/29/06
The 1700 block of Forest Avenue in Wilmette.
5/27/06
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...
5/26/06
Erica Gunderson, YoChicago’s johnny-on-the-spot in Irving Park, shows a little neighborhood pride, feistiness even, about what looks like the resurrection of the beautiful old...
5/26/06
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...
5/26/06
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...
5/26/06
We hear that as at least one development company is trying to convince West Loopers to allow higher-density development in their neighborhood by telling...
5/25/06
Thanks to Chicagoist for the pointers to Gangsta City, a full-length documentary filmed entirely at the near-defunct Cabrini-Green housing project. Watch the Gangsta City...
5/25/06
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...
5/25/06
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 the...
5/25/06
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...
5/25/06
Chicagoist starts its day with a review of the Bad Dog Tavern, one of many newish places in booming Lincoln Square. In the interests...
5/24/06
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...
5/24/06
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 sold....
5/23/06
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 subdivisions...
5/23/06
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...
5/23/06
When my husband rode up to me on his bicycle with an ashen face and close to tears on Saturday afternoon I knew that...
5/22/06
Amid all the fuss about the EPA forcing Blommer to implement pollution abatement measures that will curtail the sweet whiff of cocoa in the...
5/22/06
Dawn Turner Trice laments in a column today that the big, bad Goliath of the Chicago Public School bureaucracy stomped on a poor David...
5/21/06
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...