Category: Urban planning
A 3-D look at the CHA's Plan for Transformation
Whatever else you might think about the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation — "the largest reconstruction of public housing in t [...]
How is Ald Vi Daley doing in the 43rd ward?
In an earlier post, two Yo readers expressed discontent with Ald Vi Daley (43rd)'s policies for her ward, which takes in (much or all?) of Lincoln Par [...]
Millennium Park — a sense of neighborhood
Last Thursday, The Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate at Roosevelt University, presented a number of perspectives on the redevelopment of Chicago's [...]
Payless Lofts: Logan Square locals divided over affordable housing proposal
A developer has floated a plan to convert the old Morris B Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee Ave into affordable housing for homeless people, accordi [...]
Tower Lofts of Lake View spawned influx of double-wide strollers and Golden Retrievers
We had an e-mail the other day from a reader who said that his mom enjoyed the loft history posts, so here's another one: this is Tower Lofts of Lake [...]
Contemporary high-rise Carroll Place slated for Evanston
Opportunities to enhance the Evanston skyline don't come along every day; the city is small and a number of developers have already honed in on some o [...]
Ald Helen Shiller stars in new Uptown video
Alderman Helen Shiller is the star of a YouTube video over at the blog What the Helen? The video, set to the soundtrack of Social Distortion's Take Aw [...]
Striking 300 North LaSalle office high-rise engages river
This is Hines Interests' glassy new 300 North LaSalle, a 60-story office building that will have pole position on the Chicago River and should be an a [...]
New York Times talks to Chicago preservationists about "death by condo"
The New York Times ran a story yesterday about how Chicago preservationists lament the death of historic neighborhood architecture in the face of all [...]
Let's declare today "Chicago Real Estate Agents' Day" and give them all parking spaces
Parking spaces are precious in this bustling city of ours, so it seems only fitting that priority should be given to people who fill crucial roles in [...]
West Loop high-rise will be modified in response to WLCO objections
About a month ago we debated desirable densities in the West Loop after the resident group the West Loop Community Organization objected to the scale [...]
Condo high-rise proposed for Hyde Park
Yo reader The Urban Politician tipped us to the debate happening in Hyde Park over whether a 25-story glass high-rise should be built at the corner o [...]
Land around Chicago River emerging as desirable high-end locale
Speaking of the marketability of the Chicago River, as we did earlier today, the tributary is emerging as a desirable location in the ultra-luxury hig [...]
Chicago leasing four downtown garages for cash
Morgan Stanley is poised to take over a 99-year lease on four city parking garages in downtown Chicago. A story in today's Chicago Tribune is focuse [...]
Morton Grove builds new downtown around Metra stop
The upscale men's spa visited by Yo's Michael Austin may have already shut its doors, but, in the winter issue of New Homes Magazine, Austin finds t [...]
The Chicago NIMBY – why not in my backyard?
What defines a NIMBY? Is being a NIMBY such a bad thing? Is the accusation of NIMBYism a way to stifle debate on things by telling someone that self-i [...]
The South Loop is a beautiful but gangly teenager
Yo's truly is writing a feature about the South Loop from the premise that, developmentally (pardon the pun), the neighborhood is a teenager in the gr [...]
The first-time buyer: Metra-sexual
Ok, I'll admit it. It's a gratuitous headline that had nothing to do with the post. In our search of our dream home we were interested to hear about t [...]
No room for enviro meanies at Lexington Park Condos
I've never really understood why so many people p*** and moan about the city's system of blue recycling bags (corruption allegations aside). What's so [...]
Community group pushes for townhomes in the West Loop
The West Loop Community Organization, has blocked many developers from building projects higher than 115 feet in the neighborhood west of Halsted Stre [...]