Category: Neighborhood journal
Morse Avenue – future restaurant row?
Neighborhood boosters in Rogers Park really want to see Morse Avenue transform into something special. The plan is to entice restaurants and cafes to [...]
Jarvis Avenue starts to take shape
Developers have added 1,000 new-construction and condo conversion units to the housing stock in Rogers Park in the last two years. Not bad for an area [...]
Bronzeville playing at a Web site near you
Brad Inman's latest venture, Inman Stories, brings you "spaces, places and faces" from around the real estate business.
We just noticed the video on [...]
Gentrifying very, very, very, very slowly
A lot of Wikipedia's write-ups about Chicago neighborhoods don't have much more to offer than a good laugh. We're not much inclined to laugh at illite [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's galleries for Uptown, Near north side and East Rogers Park (samples below).
Uptown
Near north [...]
Try it. You will like it.
Every successful neighborhood is successful, to an extent that would surprise most of its residents, because of the efforts of small groups of committ [...]
A death sentence for taggers?
Uh, you might want to move your spray paint to your trunk, and put a newspaper over it, before you park your car in West Walker, a part of the city th [...]
Yuppies have murals, too
This one is in the part of Humboldt Park that some are trying to annex as West Bucktown. Goats have interesting ways of marking their turf.
The ph [...]
Lakeshore East starting to look like a neighborhood
How do you turn a collection of highrises into a community?
Add a park. It seems to be working at Lakeshore East, the new mixed-use development betwe [...]
Sub-Division
As far as we kow, Sub-Division is not the name of a new neighborhood that's south of Division Street. But hey, what does Yo know?
Well, we know that [...]
Focus, Cub Nation
Cub fans, now would be the time for you to make your way to your beloved Wrigley Field for some prime picture-taking opportunities. The steel framewor [...]
The North Branch as a neighborhood…
We can see why some people are raving about the North Branch of the Chicago River as a nice place to live.
While people are referring to the new dev [...]
When will Uptown rival downtown?
When is Uptown going to really regain its buzz? Yes, we know it's starting to get more expensive around there but really, with the lake so close by an [...]
Endangered species: the Chicago back yard
With all the condo construction running amok across Chicago it was nice to have a rare sighting of a dog playing in a spacious backyard.
This picture [...]
Lincoln Park: luxury homes and homeless shelters
You just never know what is around the corner in Lincoln Park and money can't necessarily buy freedom of mind, it seems. A storm is brewing just a bl [...]
Teachers and cops moving to McKinley Park
We mentioned the other day that loft developments are shifting west to neighborhoods like Avondale because downtown land prices are so expensive and t [...]
Lincoln Park's Emerald City
YoChicago took a breather and sat down next to the Tin Man in Lincoln Park's Oz Park the other day after spending an hour or so gawking at the starter [...]
The good burghers (and yuppies and aging fratboys) of Lincoln Park
Just when we thought Lincoln Park had ventured beyond gentrification straight into la-la land (multimillion dollar homes, restaurants with cell phone [...]
Where the rats are
Bucktown, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park and Lake View are the hot spots for rat infestation, according to today's RedEye.
I guess that's what happens w [...]
Avondale worries about yuppies in lofts
When you stand at the intersection of West Belmont Avenue and North Pulaski Road in Avondale it feels like the calm before the storm. On one side of B [...]