Category: Retail
Mexican cooking class in hot Streeterville
Streeterville has had one of the hottest markets for new homes in the city lately, with a spate of high-profile high-rises, but upscale grocery and pr [...]
New Target, ALDI opening at Wilson Yard in Uptown
Holsten Real Estate Development has broken ground on Wilson Yard, a five-acre mixed-use project in Uptown that was discussed, debated, derided and d [...]
Signs of the times on Chicago streets
In the pantheon of urban blight, you've got to rank bad store signage at or near the top of the list. Back-lit plastic signs are the scourge of the [...]
New in Loop: casino, water park, softball field!
Mayor Richard M. Daley today announced plans to turn the highly coveted parcel across from Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street, the so-cal [...]
Another unjustified "Thank you, Chicago!"
It happened again. Last night I was in Tower Records at Clark and Belden to return a movie (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe -- don't bother), when [...]
Woodlawn's random retail
Speaking of Woodlawn, as we were in an earlier posting - when you consider that the neighborhood has hardly any restaurants and a dearth of retail opt [...]
South Loop looks set to get a mega condo and retail development
The jumbo-sized mixed-use Riverside Park development, long slated for 62 acres of vacant land at Roosevelt Road and Clark Street, looks set to finally [...]
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 [...]
Designers' top Web sites for home decor
Our pal Elizabeth Blackwell offers insight into the exploding world of home-decor Web sites with a story in today's Wall Street Journal. Online sales [...]
City gives Target a helping hand in northwest Chicago
We hear that the city has cleared the way for Target to open a store on a 6.4 acre site at 2036 W Peterson Ave. The site has been vacant for a few yea [...]
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 [...]
Shopping in upscale Chicago neighborhoods
Has anyone else ever gone into a store in an upscale Chicago neighborhood and wondered what the hell they were actually selling or how they managed [...]
What's in store at The Armitage Collection?
We've talked before about the elaborate shopping options available along Armitage Avenue in Lincoln Park, including shops that sell ski parkas for dog [...]
West Lakeview drive-by drive-thru?
I don't know about you, but I've never seen a drive-thru florist before this one.
The sign (above) in the window of Floral Bazaar, 2960 W. Belmont, [...]
The Walgreens amendment to the Chicago city charter
This just in from our man "The Bench" in Irving Park: When the Mobil station at the corner of Irving Park Road and Pulaski Road was bulldozed in late [...]
In 2006, Marshall Field's will be gone forever from Chicago
In less than a year, the historical department store that has graced State Street for years, will be changing its name. Marshall Field's isn't in the [...]
Lee's Loft holds holiday open house
Tiemaker Lee Allison opens his home (which is also his office) this coming weekend, Dec. 10-11, for a Holiday Open House from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. both d [...]