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Old Navy at the corner of Washington and State streets (February 2006). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Loop photos available in our Loop photo gallery. [...]
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Orange, 3231 N Clark St, gets a huge crowd for Sunday morning breakfast (April 2005). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Lake View photos available in our L [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Uptown: Ashamed to be from Uptown?
Logan Square: Life in the Square
Edgewa [...]
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Superdawg, 6363 N Milwaukee Ave, is on the outskirts of Jefferson Park but is a favorite for resident fast food junkies (July 2005). Photo by Joeff [...]
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Lincoln Park (April 2001). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Lincoln Park photos available in our Lincoln Park photo gallery. [...]
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The bustling Kimball transit center, terminus of the CTA's Brown Line (August 2004). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Albany Park photos available in our [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright housewalk in OP-RF
That's right, it's time again for the Wright Plus benefit housewalk in Oak Park and River Forest. The 32nd annual walk is May 20, and features rare in [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's galleries for Edgewater, Near North and Uptown (samples below).
Svea, 5236 N Clark St, is one of a [...]
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Bucktown (March 2002). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Bucktown photos available in our Bucktown photo gallery.
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As remote as a train whistle in the night
That's what Oak lawn was in 1842, according to the Web site for the Gammonley Group's 51st Avenue Station.
I'm nominating the phrase as "metaphor of [...]
As Joliet develops, is Nine Eleven Avenue next?
Don't quote me on this, but I've read that according to area, Joliet is the second-largest city in Illinois. In the population race Joliet lands somew [...]
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Houses on Leland Avenue in Lincoln Square (August 2003). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Ravenswood photos available in our Ravenswood photo gallery.
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Mommy and Daddy are at work in Skokie
While seeking out interesting photo opportunities recently for New Homes' Skokie profile, I walked into Chuck E. Cheese's at Village Crossing, and ask [...]
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Irving Park (August 1999). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Irving Park photos available in our Irving Park photo gallery.
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Another landlord horror story
You guessed it — the subject is once again Horizon Realty Group and 525 West Oakdale.
When my now-deceased ex-wife first moved into 525 Oakdale [...]
Where's the outrage in Wrigleyville?
You would have thought that the expanded bleachers at Wrigley Field, with high new prices and brazenly commercialized name, would have incensed fans [...]
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Tamarah Taylor, 2, tries to keep pace with the older kids during a game of "Simon Says" at the Gordon-Taylor-Jackson family reunion, which takes pla [...]
Celebrating 25 years of home repair fraud
The Illinois Attorney General's office has sued Ronald Kafka, proprietor of a series of at least 26 Cook County home repair companies that have allege [...]
SoNo says "So there!" to the doubters
It seems that a misleading marketing campaign and a silly nickname are no barriers to success in the Chicago condo market. We scoffed at Smithfield Pr [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
North Kenwood - Oakland: Streetscapes to die for
Lake View: This mural has [...]