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Wednesday, Wednesday is Yo Chicago rents day
Chicago Apartment Finders advertises an unusual number of great-sounding apartments on Craigslist.
To us, they sound suspiciously good. We're wonde [...]
Wrong side of the tracks
City hopes Wabash can emerge from shadows of the el
As well-heeled homebuyers snap up units in highrise developments near the dazzling new Millenniu [...]
Downtown Palatine – more than just a great place to park
It's been a while since we were in downtown Palatine (ok, some of us had never been there), and we were curious just how much of the much-touted dow [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, the ugly building blues day
Was it George Ugwell (ouch!) who said that "all Jewels are created ugly, but some Jewels are more ugly than others?"
Are those some space alien bur [...]
Truth at the bottom of a tea cup
Master Tea Blender John Harney of Connecticut's Harney & Sons Teas, returns to the Ritz-Carlton Chicago on March 2 to read the fortunes of people usin [...]
Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Bucktown: YoChicago's Bucktown photo gallery
West Loop: The Tailor on Jackson is sewn into the West [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
Today's the day for a treetop canopy climbing adventure. The more earthbound can frolic with turtles and frogs and snakes and such. We know that yo [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Lake View photo gallery. [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for Hyde Park, Bucktown and Ravenswood (samples below).
Hyde Park
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Friday, Friday, is why-oh-why-oh-way day?
Why can't a mouse eat a streetcar? Tell me why oh why.
Why don't apartment rental services run exact addresses in their ads?
That question has a co [...]
Affordable condos in Barrington? That Barrington?
"Affordable" and "Barrington" aren't words you usually hear in the same sentence, but come on, the help's gotta live somewhere, right? It ain't the p [...]
Thursday, Thursday, it could be worse day
Your hedge funds have gone over the edge. You're forced to downsize.
Suck it up and consider a penthouse at The Pinnacle. At about 5,500 square [...]
Park Millennium units selling at rate of 49 a month
It seems that everyone wants a piece of Park Millennium, the three-year-old apartment building at 222 N. Columbus Drive, that's going condo.
Carrie M [...]
Chicago rents may rise as supply of apartment buildings decreases
Renters be warned - rent increases are on the horizon in 2006. Why? You can blame the phenomenally busy condo conversion market.
Last year, about 13 [...]
New rental highrises coming to Chicago market in '06 and '07
Renters can look forward to a few more highrise projects coming down the pipeline in 2006 and 2007.
First there's Left Bank Apartments, in the West Lo [...]
Wednesday, Wednesday is Yo Chicago rents day
It all sounds too good to be true.
Awesome units. Great locations. Granite. In-unit washers / dryers, disposals, etc. etc. etc. in most of the units [...]