4/16/04
One of the city’s largest development parcels is being eyed by a group of politically connected developers. Reports in Crain’s Chicago Business identify key...
4/9/04
The 3.5-acre peninsula on the northern edge of the confluence of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan was christened DuSable Park back in 1987...
4/9/04
If time really is money, there’s no better sign of the old aphorism than the Rolex and Cartier watches @ Properties recently passed out...
4/6/04
Uptown is back. Which is nice because for nearly 20 years, the North Side neighborhood bounded by Irving, Foster, Clark and the lake, was...
4/2/04
Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, will speak at the Art Institute on May 4. The Baghdad-born Hadid, who...
4/2/04
Where does Chicago Mayor Richard Daley stand on adding Wal-Marts to the cityscape? Recent comments suggest he’s in the giant retailer’s corner even though...
3/15/04
Temperature soars in some areas, even in cooler market Chicago has been better insulated than some cities from a stubbornly long economic slump, but...
2/15/04
Builders to focus on deals, remaining units in ’04 Buyers of new homes were cautious in 2003, taking their time and hunting for the...
1/9/04
The Chicago Board of Realtors has named Darlene Little president-elect of the 11,500-member real estate association. Little also is senior vice president of Rubloff...
1/9/04
Don DeBat, former real estate editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, will be the first media person ever to be inducted into the Court of...
9/6/03
The new French restaurant, Bistro Campagne, uses organic products and flies in fresh fish from Pierless Fish, on the East Coast. It’s specialties include...
6/6/03
Lula Café was nearly full at lunchtime, but about half of the tables were taken by people eating alone. Some were working on crossword...
7/15/02
Some areas are staying warm even as market cools For a couple of years there, even veteran real estate investors, guys who have had...
7/6/02
When Teresa Fraga moved with her family to the Lower West Side neighborhood of Pilsen 36 years ago her apartment did not have a...
6/6/02
When the cool kids in Wicker Park want a taste of the Real World, they head to Piece, a pizza place and microbrewery at...
3/6/02
By 11 a.m. the Teamsters are tired. They’ve been out here a couple of hours already, on the 3700 block of South Halsted, picketing...
4/6/01
Maura Grace spent two years shopping for a new condo before she found one she liked and could afford. Paul Breytman looked at only...
3/6/01
Development adds new breadth to gritty Rogers park “Within two years this will be an entirely different street.” Jennifer Long, then a business development...
5/7/00
As prices rise in Logan Square, Humboldt Park fights gentrification Lula Café is nearly full at lunchtime, but about half of the tables are...
9/6/99
By all accounts, Jack and Liz Wilson seemed to be overpaying for their house in Old Irving Park when they bought it in the...