Category: Parks

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Want a Chicago house with green space? Look for preserves, not yards

"Chicago" and "wilderness" aren't words you often hear together, unless they're meant metaphorically, or in reference to Chicago Wilderness Magazine. [...]

Lake View group close to buying land for new park

Triangle Neighbors, one of the best organized neighborhood groups on the North Side, is less than $50,000 away from purchasing a second lot, at 817 W [...]
Millennium Park — a sense of neighborhood

Millennium Park — a sense of neighborhood

Last Thursday, The Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate at Roosevelt University, presented a number of perspectives on the redevelopment of Chicago's [...]
Why things work the way they work

Why things work the way they work

Last Thursday, at The Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate at Roosevelt University, Richard A. Hanson, president of Mesa Development, talked about som [...]
Pioneering on South Michgan Avenue

Pioneering on South Michgan Avenue

The success of Millennium Park makes it easy to forget how South Michigan Avenue was perceived 10 years ago. Watch Louis D'Angelo of Metropolitan Pro [...]
The new South Loop dog park sucks

The new South Loop dog park sucks

There, I said it. Seriously, you call that a dog park? It's a sectioned-off area of Grant Park that's slightly larger than an Olympic-sized swimming p [...]
Is this park safe?

Is this park safe?

If the sign says you've "entered a safe park zone," the odds are you have not entered a safe park. [...]
New Lincoln Square townhomes designed around central park

New Lincoln Square townhomes designed around central park

Townhomes on the Square -- under construction at 4949 N Lincoln Ave, down the street from Lincoln Manor and Lincoln Center -- is another of severa [...]
Happiness is a warm puppy

Happiness is a warm puppy

Unless, perhaps, you're the puppy. This scene was seen at a football game in Pilsen's Harrison Park. [...]
Edgebrook Glen single-family homes have forest preserve as neighbor

Edgebrook Glen single-family homes have forest preserve as neighbor

Not many city developments can claim a forest preserve as an amenity, but CA Development's single-family community Edgebrook Glen backs up to Edge [...]
Condos, teardowns and kid-friendly retail as West Lakeview experiences baby boom

Condos, teardowns and kid-friendly retail as West Lakeview experiences baby boom

West Lakeview is undergoing a baby boom as families pour into the neighborhood, snapping up detached houses and spacious condos. "High-tech strollers [...]
"I lost my virginity here"

"I lost my virginity here"

Given the location's proximity to Northwestern's Evanston campus, I'm betting this note, on the dunes above Evanston's Lighthouse Beach, announces t [...]
The Lofts at Roosevelt Collection announced for mixed-use South Loop community

The Lofts at Roosevelt Collection announced for mixed-use South Loop community

Centrum Properties has started teasing The Lofts at Roosevelt Collection, part of the massive mixed-use development that brings one million square [...]
West Rogers Park remains port of entry, but rising prices make docking more difficult

West Rogers Park remains port of entry, but rising prices make docking more difficult

Like "a good husband that you sometimes forget to appreciate," West Rogers Park is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city. New [...]
Tallgrass is a slice of the English countryside in Lake Barrington

Tallgrass is a slice of the English countryside in Lake Barrington

When Michael J. Graft Builder named its newest community of custom homes in Lake Barrington "Tallgrass," the company wasn't kidding. The development o [...]
Make Monday a family fun day

Make Monday a family fun day

Uncle Sam on Stilts (stilts not pictured), The Whistling Pig, the Jesse White Tumblers, Tastefest, music, fireworks, races, rides and a whole lot mo [...]

The battle of the forest preserves

A commenter at Move UP to Naperville contends that Du Page County's forest preserves are superior to Cook County's forest preserves. Let's hear comme [...]

Lunchtime music in Daley Plaza

I played music in Daley Plaza yesterday for their daily summertime concert series. We blasted out Irish jigs and reels, and rollicking songs with such [...]
Guerilla Gardening on its way to Chicago?

Guerilla Gardening on its way to Chicago?

A reader at Apartment Therapy alerted us to the international Guerilla Gardening project. It involves locals from all over the world taking on a patch [...]
Rise up singing: read about greening of Chicago

Rise up singing: read about greening of Chicago

Take a break from your summer hunt for a home or apartment with a good book, a patch of grass and a shady tree. Edens Lost and Found might sound lik [...]
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