Category: Neighborhood journal
Affordable Washington Park has an interesting past
A while ago we told you how a bunch of developers is getting together to promote the South Shore as the city's hot new affordable neighborhood. But wh [...]
What should a White Sox World Series victory do for Bridgeport?
It was about time the real estate world milked the White Sox 2005 World Series victory for all it was worth. In April, you'll be able to buy a home at [...]
Celebrate Algren's birthday, Chicago in Wicker Park
We try our best to document Chicago's neighborhoods at YoChicago, but on that score, no one can come close to Nelson Algren, who did for Chicago what [...]
Urinetown continues to run
The Tony Award-winning Broadway hit "Urinetown the Musical" runs through June at the Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Southport (773-325-1700) in the Lakeview [...]
Developers converge on "East Lincoln Park"
Names such as "West Roscoe Village" seem to be easing themselves into Chicago's real estate vocabulary, if not the official roster of city neighborhoo [...]
Slag Valley, Irondale, Veterans Park
Yaptown, Millgate, Cheltenham, Avalon Trails, Arizona ...
Admit it. From the moment she cupped her hands around your ear and huskily whispered "Hege [...]
Why the children of St. Ben's will inherit Chicago
Is it just me, or is anyone else surprised that single-family homes are now selling from $1 million in St. Ben's?
Centrum Properties has just announc [...]
Funnin' the suckers in a sick way
The Chicago Neighborhood Boundaries Directory, co-published by the Chicago Association of Realtors and Big Stick Inc., bills itself as the "most thoro [...]
Good fixtures make for good neighbors
The relentless wind today blew a light covering from my building into a neighbor's stairwell, leaving glass shards on their steps. I felt compelled to [...]
The shady side of Beverly
For anyone who happened to sojourn south (or north or east or west) yesterday for the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade in the Beverly neighbo [...]
Bienvenidos a Pilsen
Watch a tour of Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood at Google Video. [...]
We're not making this up. Really. We're not.
We quote from the Wikipedia entry on Chicago's Mount Greenwood neighborhood:
Mt. Greenwood was a prosperous community until conquered by Daniel Soso [...]
The hot topic in Roscoe Village
Roscoe Village Neighbors runs one of the city's more informative and active Web sites.
We just visited their Message Board to see what's on the minds [...]
The Buddhists are coming (to save Ravenswood landmark)!
It's a subtle change on a structure that has stood for more than 100 years, but the new name on the front of what's been commonly known as the Paul [...]
It's hip to be Square on Lincoln Ave
The Cold Stone Creamery pictured on the left just opened on the 4700 block of N Lincoln Ave, in Lincoln Square, and Potbelly Sandwich Works, as the [...]
Reborn Rockwell strip threatened by CTA closure
We wrote in a Monday post that residents and businesses on Rockwell St between Wilson and Lawrence avenues were nervous about the Feb. 20 shutdown of [...]
Ravenswood Manor: dock your canoe right outside the house
While we were in the neighborhood, we thought we'd snap a few shots of some of the greatest riverfront homes in Chicago, in Ravenswood Manor. The vie [...]
CTA Tattler chronicles urban life on the el
While we're on the subject of the Chicago Transit Authority and scatalogical references (see below post), the often entertaining CTA Tattler seems to [...]
CTA's "countown to a new brown" elicits groans
And the award for worst tagline for a major public works project goes to the Chicago Transit Authority for "countdown to a new brown." The scatalogica [...]
Irish ways
Over the weekend at R.J. Grunts (2056 N. Lincoln Park West, 773-929-5363), the Lincoln Park restaurant that started it all for the Lettuce Entertain Y [...]