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Yo in review: December 4 – 11
Lombard: Chickens outLoving the views from 235 Van BurenTour a 20,000 square-foot Northfield homeThe homes, schools, and parks of Clarendon Hills$39 [...]
Cox: Condo dollar volume up slightly in 2010
In the first eleven months of this year, city condo dollar volume increased 2 percent compared to the same period 2009, but the median price has dropp [...]
It’s Chinatown: Three years of condo sales
Chinatown's a small neighborhood to begin with, so its not a shock to learn that just 12 condos, townhomes, and single-family homes have sold ther [...]
Get your nominations in for the 2010 Curbed Cup
Have you nominated your favorite neighborhood for the 2010 Curbed Cup? I'm guessing not, based on the five comments Mark has received to date. What ar [...]
Choice cuts: 29% off a Lincoln Park storefront home
Follow that little red Carrera above down the 1100 block of West Webster Ave and you'll pass the storefronts of the Cotelac, McShane's Exchange, L [...]
Fix up or tear down: The low end of Lincoln Park’s multi-family market
Don't expect five-digit prices on run-down buildings in Lincoln Park. Here, you've gotta spend at least $220,000, which will get you this bombed- [...]
The sought-after areas of Clarendon Hills
This segment from Joe Zekas' tour of Clarendon Hills with Coldwell Banker agent Mike McCurry takes the two through the more sought-after areas of [...]
Arlington Heights hikes utility taxes
If you live in Chicago and pay attention to your utility bills (phone, gas, electric) you’re aware of the taxes the city adds to your utility cost [...]
Toll Brothers, Glenview and CribChatter
Google Analytics tells us that many of our readers also visit CribChatter, and many of their readers visit YoChicago. We have very different appro [...]
Will you have phone service in Des Plaines or Park Ridge?
Many Chicago suburbs have carried on long-running battles with wireless carriers over cell phone towers, dating back to the days of the brain cancer s [...]
Controversial Bridgeport mansion back on the market
The Bridgeport home at the center of a federal housing discrimination suit is back on the market at a familiar price.
Richard Carlino of Villa [...]
McDonald’s tosses out NIMBY bait in Northfield
At the time I shot the above photo, in April of 2008, the gas station site at the left of the above photo had already been vacant for years. It’s [...]
Unfortunate headline of the day
From the Wall Street Journal.
Housing project goes dark [...]
Making progress on a full-floor home at Superior 110
Last month Greg Eldridge of @properties and Joe Zekas visited two half-floor units on the 23rd floor of Superior 110 in River North before the beg [...]
600 Lake Shore Drive closing in on closeout
One or two condos sell every week at 600 Lake Shore Drive, and the project is fast approaching closeout, says Royal Fisher, one of Belgravia Group [...]
Chicago Spire — still dead
At this point, stories of the Spire's incremental demise don't interest me, but a couple of people have sent me links to today's story regarding t [...]
Quote of the day: Where families go when the projects go
Some of Madden/Wells buildings were closed down fast when buildings experienced "emergency conditions"--much like Cabrini-Green is doing right now. Be [...]
Rogers Park four-plus-ones: the epitome of ‘urban chic’
"4 + 1 apartments were hip in the '60s and '70s, and now they are hip again today."
- Lori Postma, Reside Living's director of marketing, in a [...]
The two-bedrooms of Kingsbury Plaza
Kingsbury Plaza, the 47-story high-rise at 520 N Kingsbury St in River North, has a simple design: Each floor has four studios, four one-bedr [...]
Rent or buy a Pickle Factory Loft in Lincoln Park
Domu's blog recently introduced readers to a two bedroom / 2.5-bath loft listed for rent at the Pickle Factory Lofts, 1921 N Kenmore Ave in Lincol [...]