Category: Renovation

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Media / gentrification rant of the day

Media / gentrification rant of the day

Thousands of volunteers arrived early Saturday morning to begin a day of repainting and repairing 49 homes in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood and 2 [...]
Amazing Grace – the girls on 56th and Wood

Amazing Grace – the girls on 56th and Wood

Today was National Rebuilding Day, and YoJoe and YoVal spent the day in Englewood, where Rebuilding Together Chicago was repairing 49 homes owned by [...]
Warm, safe and dry in Englewood and Markham

Warm, safe and dry in Englewood and Markham

A week from Saturday is National Rebuilding Day, and over 1,000 volunteers will be working on repairs and renovations at 72 homes in the city's Engl [...]

Decaying Wrigley will make or break neighborhood

Hours after news broke that Sam Zell would take the helm at the Chicago Tribune, speculation began that the real estate mogul would sell the Cubs but [...]
Window of the day: Center on Halsted in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood

Window of the day: Center on Halsted in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood

A tire with wings floats above a window of the Center on Halsted, set to open later this year as a social service and community center for the gay, [...]
Advice for flipping that condo in a down market

Advice for flipping that condo in a down market

Baird & Warner real estate agent Greg Jarvis tells a happy tale of flipping in our Condo flipper journal. His clients bought a Lincoln Park duplex at [...]
A walk through Celestial House

A walk through Celestial House

This is not your ordinary house tour. But then, Celestial House, 3350 S. Calumet Ave in Bronzeville, is no ordinary renovation, and developer Bill L [...]

It's easy to be green when it comes to home heaters

We're on a bit of a green kick here at the Yo, so we thought we'd share some advice from New Homes columnist and home inspector Tom Corbett on selecti [...]
Ramova Theater in Bridgeport to be restored

Ramova Theater in Bridgeport to be restored

Plans are in the works to turn Bridgeport's historic Ramova Theater into a restaurant and bakery, according to a tidbit buried towards the back of a [...]

Old Town hotel/restaurant update

That project at the corner of Wells, Lincoln and Clark that was reported on many weeks ago right here on the Yo is starting to take shape. The entire [...]
Gut rehab in Budlong Woods is a stroll – or a hike – from Lincoln Square

Gut rehab in Budlong Woods is a stroll – or a hike – from Lincoln Square

If you want to live within walking distance of a vibrant commercial strip, how far is too far? Campbell Place, a gut rehab at 5226-5232 N. Campbell, [...]

Work begins on former Louie on the Park space at key Old Town Triangle location

Construction began Saturday on the former Louie on the Park bar and restaurant at the corner of Clark, Wells and Lincoln. A wooden super-structure (if [...]

Rent before you buy a loft and see if it's what you really want

Veteran Chicago architect Pat FitzGerald, whose company, FitzGerald Associates Architects, has converted numerous industrial buildings into lofts, urg [...]
New life for this home in North Kenwood – Oakland?

New life for this home in North Kenwood – Oakland?

We spotted a construction permit in the window of this amazing old building, located on the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in North Kenwood - [...]
Coming soon to South Loop: new Blackstone hotel

Coming soon to South Loop: new Blackstone hotel

The Yo spent lunch with the Friends of Downtown at its monthly "brown bag luncheon," where we were treated to a sneak peek at plans for the renovate [...]
New West's University Station cleans up nicely

New West's University Station cleans up nicely

When we saw New West Realty's University Station this summer (pictured at left), the former cold storage warehouse looked like it had suffered heav [...]
TRU Lofts – and not a lycra thong in sight

TRU Lofts – and not a lycra thong in sight

Aaaah. Isn't that nice? Hard to believe that this room has probably seen more than its share of wobbly flesh barely contained by electric-blue thong- [...]

Bringing up baby: Family planning and homebuying in Chicago

Yesterday's Trib had an interesting story about buying and selling a home when you're expecting a child. For expectant parents selling their home in o [...]

Condo developer adopts landmark South Loop church for bonus

Today's South Loop news is a basic example of one hand washing the other - window. The Chicago Journal reports that Rokas International plans to pay $ [...]
Praise for Chicago bungalows

Praise for Chicago bungalows

Yo! Bungalow lovers! We've got all kinds of treats for you this week. New Homes Magazine columnist and home inspection guru, Tom Corbett, kicks off [...]
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