Category: Urban planning
Red Seal opens 50-acre mixed-use development in Galewood
Chicago has gone from Carl Sandburg's "player with railroads and the nation's freight handler" to a player with condos and housing handler. The two a [...]
Lincoln Square grab bag: new businesses, bad dogs and worse monuments
Chicagoist starts its day with a review of the Bad Dog Tavern, one of many newish places in booming Lincoln Square. In the interests of full disclos [...]
More green for green roofs in downtown Chicago buildings
The Mayor has a very green approach to residential recycling: reroute cash to friends with ties to organized crime rather than wasting it on a progr [...]
Story on Chicago's development "mulch" spreads some manure
We just came across a recent New York Times story glowing about Chicago's green approach to development and urban planning. Reporter Keith Schneider p [...]
Cabrini-Green on NBC5 tonight, but real story goes unreported
Tonight's obligatory viewing on the tube: NBC5 is doing a segment on Cabrini-Green called Life on the Green, at 10 p.m. It will explore life in public [...]
Chicago Plan Commission approves 64-unit project in Burnside area
The Chicago Plan Commission last week approved a proposal by 89th & State, LLC for 64 residential units in a mix of 24 single-family homes and 40 town [...]
Fisticuffs avoided at Plan Commission hearing on new Cabrini-Green high-rise
We were secretly hoping for some actual yuppie violence when we attended a Chicago Plan Commission meeting earlier today when plans for a 25-story hig [...]
Talking urban planning in Garfield Park
The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Neghborhood Writing Alliance are hosting a discussion Saturday, May 20 on how urban plan [...]
Yuppie-on-yuppie violence mars Cabrini-Green housing redevelopment
One of the problems with being a carpetbagger is competition from the other carpetbaggers. A story in today's Tribune quotes buyers of pricey new home [...]
New riverwalk, museum opening downtown
The Chicago River, once treated as an open sewer, has become a catalyst for development, including the construction of riverfront housing, but it will [...]
New CTA line: will the Circle be unbroken?
The CTA's proposed Circle Line, which would link existing CTA and Metra lines in the center of the city, could have huge implications for lots of neig [...]
U.S. Equities signs French market for West Loop development
And they said the Fulton River District would never be a neighborhood. The growing residential area between the Chicago River and Halsted Street just [...]
Pittsburgh outsprawls Chicago
And everywhere else, according to a study reported at Business Week Online's Hot Property.
The study's based on 1992 data. Any guesses where Chicago [...]
Broadway zoning debate settled in Edgewater
Just in from Killian at Yo's Edgewater journal: After close to two years of study, debate and grassroots referenda the 48th Ward Zoning and Planning C [...]
Mr. T takes Conan to Legends South site
Last night was Late Night with Conan O'Brien's first show at the Chicago Theatre. To explore the Windy City, Conan enlisted Chicago native and fashion [...]
Save the date for Cloud Gate
It's official -- the ribbon-cutting dedication ceremony for Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park is set for 11 a.m. on Monday, May 1 [...]
Legends South brings hope, protest
At yesterday's ground-breaking ceremony for Hansberry Square at Legends South, Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) spoke about the need to develop more than [...]
Is Gang's Aqua condo tower the start of a 3rd Chicago School?
Someone should give Lynn Becker , the architecture critic, who has his own Web site and writes for the Reader and other print publications, a civic aw [...]
Bronzeville's Hansberry Square breaks new ground
This morning, Yo attended the ground-breaking ceremony for Hansberry Square, a 238-unit phase of Legends South, Bronzeville's massive new mixed-incom [...]
How would the Circle Line affect property values?
CTA officials announced yesterday that they've narrowed the possible routes for the proposed Circle Line to three options. The Circle Line, which woul [...]