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A block club in Avalon Park gets creative
Signs like these, created by block clubs, proliferate across the South Side. We liked this one, from the block club of 8100 S Harper Ave in Avalon P [...]
Sales are underway at Renaissance Lofts
Sales are underway at The Kopley Group's Renaissance Lofts, a 37-unit adaptive-reuse project at 1791 W Howard Street in Rogers Park. The six-story bui [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Lake View: Keeping it clean
River North: The resident's perspective
Old I [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Lombard: Blurred boundaries-- new urbanism in suburban Lombard
Old Irving: O [...]
Window of the day: musical tin men in Bronzeville
This window caught our eye on the 3300 block of South Giles Avenue. [...]
Aqua architect Gang talks to Friends of Downtown
The Yo was on hand this afternoon to see Aqua architect Jeanne Gang speak at Friends of Downtown's monthly Brown Bag Luncheon. In response to the over [...]
Quote of the day: no shame in SROs
"This building was intended to be a stigma smasher. All of us deserve to live in beautiful spaces and healthy environments with beautiful views."
- C [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Wicker Park: Missing mural in Wicker Park?
Woodlawn: Vote!
Auburn Gresham: [...]
24: A day in Chicago's Loop
New condo towers at home in the Loop
Why live in the Loop?
New Homes tests the mettle of Chicago's touted "24-hour downtown"
Story by Kate Hawl [...]
Deal with it
In cooler market, buyers demand – and builders deliver – perks aplentyÂ
Story by Alison Soltau
Lisa and Miguel Cabrales wanted to buy [...]
Ripped from the headlines
Ex-Koenig execs buy 9 of Prudential's 11 offices Trib
Keeping land safe from development - forever Trib
In 2016, Grant Park could become party cen [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Wicker Park: Attack of the mean reds
Edison Park: Get in shape for the summe [...]
Comment of the day: stone-cold McMansions
Our post on stone yards inspired Nina to write, "As an agent, I go to many open houses - brokers and general - and it kills me to see all these multi- [...]
More Chicago deals: upgrades, closing costs
Belmont-Hudson Development is dangling some sweeteners at its Lake View project, H3177. Early buyers of the 56 homes at the 12-story building will rec [...]
Chicago deal of the day: Discounts, incentives at Lake Park Crescent
Draper and Kramer is cutting between $5,000 and $27,000 from the price of certain market-rate homes at Lake Park Crescent, a mixed-income community of [...]
Chicago deal of the day: Jackson Square at West End
Buyers of homes at the mixed-income development, Jackson Square at West End, will receive a free parking space and up to $5,000 toward closing costs.
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Deal or no deal in the Chicago market?
Are Chicago homebuyers wheeling and dealing while the market remains a little cooler than it was a year ago? Yes, according to Britta Rivera, sales di [...]
Comment of the day: no love for Heart of Chicago
Our Valentine's Day post on a four-story "love nest" in Bucktown prompted this response from "romantic": "Very nice - but it's too bad that someone at [...]
We like to watch: inside Bucktown love nest
Just in time for Valentine's Day-- this four-story single-family home in Bucktown seems like it could be quite a little love nest. The lower-leve [...]
Chicago deal of the day: Free rental parking
Jameson Realty Group is touting free rental parking until April 2008 at Paulina Ridge Court, a rehabbed 43-unit building at 5909 N Paulina St, where u [...]