Category: Retail
Developer unveils plans for Kinzie Station – the neighborhood
Developer Fifield Companies' elaborates on plans for Kinzie Station, a $750 million development of six apartment towers with 2,451 units on a site bou [...]
Batavia plans to zone sex shops for industrial districts
The city of Batavia wants to keep sex-based businesses out of its retail areas, according to today's Chicago Tribune. Since the city can't ban sex sho [...]
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 [...]
Nookies, Uncommon Ground coming to Edgewater – EDC's Adam Burck
Uncommon Ground, the popular Lake View restaurant, wants to open a location in Edgewater, and Nookie's, the diner with locations in Lake View and Lin [...]
Why move a business to Edgewater?
As Edgewater week continues at YoChicago, we bring you interviews with a couple of local business owners. Dan Aquado, of Blue Hydrangea, 1113 W Berwy [...]
Edgewater's Clark Street is for shoppers
There's nothing like a good bout of shopping to burn off some calories. Whether you're looking to spend big or spend little, Clark Street's stretch [...]
Dominick's almost ready to dominate Chicago Avenue in West Town
Construction continues on the 50,000-square-foot Dominick's slated to dominate the 2000 block of West Chicago Avenue in West Town by summer 2007. Th [...]
EatZi's maintains subtle presence in Lakeview East
We haven't been to eatZi's, the shop that sells gourmet prepared foods and specialty items in Lakeview East's Century Shopping Centre since it opene [...]
Yo's holiday gift guide: shopping's fast at Lake View's smallest bookstore
If you're like us, the thought of waiting in line at Wal-Mart, or even Walgreens, during the next couple of days strikes terror in your heart. If you [...]
Second-largest Whole Foods in North America headed for Chicago
The second-largest Whole Foods in North America will soon open its doors in Chicago. The Chicago Plan Commission has approved developer CRM Properties [...]
Northwest Huntley eyeing 120-acre shopping complex
Rubloff Development Group is proposing a 120-acre retail development that would include a Home Depot on I-47 at Powers Road, near Huntley, according t [...]
Renovo no more – Morton Grove spa suddenly shuttered
You wouldn't know it if you were to read my upcoming New Homes / YoChicago story about Morton Grove, but the men's spa featured prominently in the st [...]
Some South Loopers like their nabe quiet and don't want it to become "sceney" like the Gold Coast
We always hear South Loopers kvetching that they don't have enough restaurants and bars in their fast-developing neighborhood. Yo's truly was rambling [...]
Wal-Mart plans five "supercenters" in key South Side wards
Chicago labor leader Dennis Gannon equated Wal-Mart's decision to build five new "supercenters" in the South Side wards of alermen who supported the s [...]
Is Chicago becoming a fashion center? Yeah, that Chicago
You might think fashions start on the coasts - and you're probably right - but Chicago's no slouch these days, according to Yo's own Suzie and the C [...]
Rental studios for around $1,300 at new South Loop apartment building
High-rise buildings and the South Loop neighborhood go together like, oh I don't know, Audrey Hepburn and AC/DC. You know what I mean? It seems like s [...]
South Loopers crying out for a Whole Foods and some good bars
It's hard to ignore the fact that although the South Loop is "burgeoning," according to every developer in the area, there's hardly anything to do in [...]
Save Water Tower Place from being invaded by American Girl Place
Bye, bye Lord & Taylor. You had it good for a long time at Water Tower Place. According to Crain's, Water Tower won't renew the old department store's [...]
Community group pushes for townhomes in the West Loop
The West Loop Community Organization, has blocked many developers from building projects higher than 115 feet in the neighborhood west of Halsted Stre [...]
Long Grove and Kildeer maintain pastoral presence on Chicago's fringe
In the October issue of New Homes Magazine, Michael Austin takes a ride out to a couple of suburbs that might appear frozen in time if it weren't fo [...]