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Where will Chicago put all those people?
The Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC) predicts that Chicago's population will grow by over 360,000 between 2000 and 2030. NIPC's popula [...]
Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Irving Park: Out with the new in West Walker
Andersonville: Where in the world is Bomanville, Thaila [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for Albany Park, Bridgeport and Humboldt Park (samples below).
Albany [...]
Mamet's creative secret
As David Mamet Festival begins this weekend at the Goodman Theatre I am reminded of the wise words of Mamet as related to a friend of a friend of a fr [...]
Heavy Metal Lesbians
Friends, look no further for something to do this Saturday -- date night.
The all-girl band Lez Zeppelin pays tribute to heavy metal-Celtic-druid-roc [...]
Friday, Friday is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why can't a tree jump an ocean? Tell me why oh why?
Everyone's always speculating about Chicago's "next hot neighborhood."
Over the years Chicago ha [...]
The daily Joeff
Photo by Joeff Davis
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Uptown photo gallery. [...]
Gammonley plans high-rise @ River North
No sooner are we finished ranting about the @ in @properties (see below post), when we realize a new development has jumped on the @ bandwagon. The G [...]
New Jersey passes Illinois in luxury home sales
According to a report out today from Coldwell Banker, Illinois slipped to 5th place among the states in sales of homes over $1 million. The new #4? Ne [...]
The daily Joeff
Photo by Joeff Davis
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Wicker Park photo gallery. [...]
Thursday, Thursday, it could be worse day
At just over 4,000 square feet this unit at The Elysian requires some, shall we say, adjustments to your lifestyle. If you can't bear to go this far [...]
Ravenswood Manor: dock your canoe right outside the house
While we were in the neighborhood, we thought we'd snap a few shots of some of the greatest riverfront homes in Chicago, in Ravenswood Manor. The vie [...]
House of many gables rising in Ravenswood Manor
We noticed this showy little number going up in Ravenswood Manor, at Leland and Virginia, on the Chicago River. The builder, Orren Pickell, is known [...]
Wednesday, Wednesday is Yo Chicago rents day
Amazing. Awesome. Unbelievable.
The Homestead Group rental service peppers its nearly 200 ads on Craigslist with a lengthy list of these and other su [...]
Development name of the day: NeuStoneshire
What makes a good suburban housing development name? It should be descriptive and contain "woods, hills, lake, creek, ridge, Glen or stone" somewhere [...]
The Legacy condos — almost Michigan Ave
From a clever news release e-mailed late yesterday about the planned new condo tower, The Legacy at Millennium Park: "Hundreds flocked to the VIP open [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, got the ugly building blues day
The guy who styles himself The Bench over at the Irving Park journal presented us with a sampler of neighborhood uglies this week. The competition w [...]
