1/9/06
One of the biggest complaints among residents of North Town Village, probably the best known mixed-income project in the redevelopment of the Chicago Housing...
1/6/06
As YoChicago’s Michael Austin pointed out in his Dec. 28 post, the legendary Berghoff Restaurant, 17 W Adams St, will close its doors on...
1/5/06
I’m puzzled by the Central Lake View Merchants Association‘s street banners along Belmont and Sheffield. They’re the only ones I’ve ever seen in Chicago...
12/30/05
Old Town must be the fittest neighborhood in the city with three full-service gym/spas within a couple of blocks of each other. Obviously there...
12/29/05
If you were shopping around new highrise condo towers which vista would have the most appeal? A bird’s-eye view of Soldier Field on game-day...
12/28/05
Steph, our woman in the West Loop, reports from downtown: Last night as I came off the Quincy el, I was puzzled to see...
12/23/05
Colorado can have its punny Baked in Telluride–a clever name for a bakery in the legendary ski town that is also known for its...
12/22/05
YoChicago’s Hank from Ye Old Town Triangle reports: The Village Theatre is up for lease! Uh oh. The Village is one of the few...
12/21/05
The advent of home theater rooms is apparently helping the traditional, romantic fireplace to stage a comeback in the living room after being banished...
12/16/05
You know it now as the old site of the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, but soon hundreds of people might be calling the...
12/16/05
Yesterday was just another Thursday to most people in Chicago, but it was a pretty big deal for former residents of Stateway Gardens, the...
12/16/05
We’d hire you Rebecca. We thought you were a class act on crutches. For those of you scratching your heads, YoChicago is referring to...
12/15/05
The venerable Studs Terkel, lucid and feisty as ever at 93, spoke to a jam-packed room full of admirers at The Book Cellar in...
12/15/05
If you thought the creation of North Town Village, which replaced the former Cabrini-Green public housing development, was a staggering transformation of that part...
12/14/05
Frightening! Spine-Tingling! Tonight only! They’ll be rolling out the red carpet in Wrigleyville tonight at 8 p.m. when writer/director Ben Grinnell of Zoo Milk...
12/12/05
The mixed-income development Park Boulevard will break ground at West 35th Street near South Federal Street, on Thursday, the latest project in the city’s...
12/9/05
Back in 1998, proponents of a tax-increment financing district in Pilsen were almost condescending as they tried to sell it to neighborhood residents. The...
12/9/05
Just how pet-friendly can a highrise condo be? Dog-ownership is common in highrise-happy neighborhoods like the South Loop and developers often tout dog runs...
12/7/05
“Entry into the Cork is through a forbidding wooden door that looks like it leads into someone’s house in Des Plaines.” So begins a...
12/7/05
The Daley administration has proposed an ordinance establishing a “Chicago Community Land Trust,” to keep a stock of affordable housing — both for-sale and...