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Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Wicker Park: North and Ashland development?
Irving Park: The Wire service [...]
Turkey Day with a Jewish flair every day in the Loop
You will not find it on the menu--or at least I didn't--but if you ask your server (as I did the other day) to have the kitchen whip up a turkey reube [...]
Prime business location in Old Town vacant
First the Days Inn at the corner of Clark, Lincoln and Wells in Old Town changed its name to the Gold Coast hotel (that was about six months ago). The [...]
I'll take Manhattan – the South Loop loft development, that is
Everything is just bigger and better in Manhattan, isn't it? Ripped from the musty archives of New Homes Magazine is this interesting piece of informa [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
DePaul: Bringing my car to DePaul was a bad idea
West Lake View & Roscoe Vil [...]
Yo cruises Cityscape Condominiums launch party
Last night, Yo braved the elements to attend a launch party for Cityscape Condominiums, Westward Development Company's 86-unit condo building in Sai [...]
Ladies' Lingerie in Boystown
The heterosexual males out there who thought there would never be a good reason to venture into Boystown...well, there's a reason all of a sudden.
On [...]
New Bucktown restaurant Il Covo
In the block of Damen Avenue just south of where the expressway crosses overhead, a new restaurant called Il Covo (2152 N. Damen, 773-862-5555) is tur [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
DePaul: Is my block going to be landmarked?
Bucktown: My first post!
The [...]
River North burgers going fast
There is a restaurant in River North called Naha (500 N. Clark St., 312-321-6242), and it is one of the finer restaurants in the city. Chef Carrie Nah [...]
Endless sushi in Lincoln Park
Sure there's probably a band somewhere called Endless Sushi (or there should be), but this is about dinner. On Mondays, at the Lincoln Park sushi rest [...]
541 West Cornelia meets the neighbors
In the same street as Harvey House, in Lakeview, is JDL Development Corporation's upcoming 541 West Cornelia, a fairly bland-looking new-construction [...]
The high-rise you won't see in the West Loop
Here is a glimpse at a high-rise design that you won't see in the West Loop. It's The Pickus Companies' rendering for its two-tower 155-foot developm [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Irving Park: Expressway to my black, black heart
Logan Square: Trick or trea [...]
Real estate developer Rezko $50M in debt
Seems like building new homes in Chicago during the last decade would have been a fine way to amass a healthy nest egg for a rainy day, but it didn't [...]
Foreclosing on gossip
The Sun-Times reports that Bill Zwecker, its gossip columnist, is late paying the mortgage on his Streeterville condo and the lender has filed a forec [...]
Is every Illinois pol like every other?
An article in today's Chicago Tribune raises serious questions about whether Barack Obama differs in fundamental ways from your typical Illinois polit [...]
Household hazards could ruin holiday season
In the winter issue of New Homes Magazine, home inspector Tom Corbett offers some tips to prevent noxious gases, fried Christmas trees, tangled kittie [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Lake View: The horror of a garden apartment
DePaul: Trick or treating for [...]
Work in progress: Central Square
Work is well underway at Central Square, an O'Malley Construction development located at 3234 N Central Ave in Portage Park. The building will have [...]