Category: Urban planning
Targeting Wilson Yard in Uptown
Nat over at Yo's Uptown journal provides an interesting history of Wilson Yard, and wonders whether Target will remain a part of the proposed mixed-us [...]
Follow the red brick road – or not – in Chicago suburbs
Pulling up ratty - or even nice - carpeting to get to the character of the hardwood floors beneath is common practice in Chicagoland homes and apartme [...]
A hot weekend at Millennium Pool
Ah, Millennium Park. We can barely remember what life was like before you came along. Well, we would probably have been at the lake at the weekend, [...]
Waiting for the wrecker's ball, or maybe not
As reported here mere moments ago [at Yo, great minds are obviously on the same wavelength], you can find real-life examples of a famous New Yorker [...]
Cool kids rank Second City 7th among hip places to live
The Windy Onion ranks 7th among American cities in a rating by college-educated 25- to 34-year-olds of places they'd like to live, though to read the [...]
Is Chicago Central Area Committee fading as Loop rebounds?
As we continue our Loop tour this week, it's hard not to note the prominent role the Chicago Central Area Committee has had in reimagining a city cent [...]
West Ridge Chamber hopes to lure retail to Touhy, Western
We told you earlier today about plans for a mixed-use development on Devon Avenue. While Devon has more of an Indian flavor, the West Ridge Chamber of [...]
Rise up singing: read about greening of Chicago
Take a break from your summer hunt for a home or apartment with a good book, a patch of grass and a shady tree. Edens Lost and Found might sound lik [...]
West Rogers Park has high hopes for new TIF district
Residents of West Rogers Park are hoping that the city's recent creation of a TIF district around Touhy Avenue will revitalize the relatively quiet st [...]
Fountain Square: Evanston's answer to Times Square?
We've told you about developer Roszak / ADC's proposal to build Evanston's tallest high-rise and the North Shore's first hotel condo project; now it l [...]
Clark Junction #$%^&s up entire transit system
The Tribune reported today that, due to signal problems at Belmont, there was no Purple Line service south of Howard Street yesterday.
A brief newspa [...]
Old Town hole, vacant lot
There is a hole at the corner of Lincoln, Lincoln Park West, and Wisconsin in Old Town. Stay tuned for what goes up there, but what came down in the l [...]
Tallest high-rise, 1st hotel condos proposed for Evanston
The North Shore's first hotel condo building would also be the tallest tower in Evanston, if developer Thomas Roszak has his way. Evanston Now reports [...]
Chicago Park District celebrates 30 paces worth of Edgewater green space
The Chicago Park District seems pretty excited about its acquisition of this inhospitably fenced-off lakefront open space -- a whopping 30 paces worth [...]
Historic district residents parry with LaGrange over new high-rise
The Tribune reported today that residents near the Prairie Avenue historic district are complaining about plans for a development that will include tw [...]
Riverrun past Michigan and Wacker, from bridgehouse museum to River Bend
The Chicago Tribune today reports on the Saturday opening of a new Chicago River museum, housed in the bridgehouse at the southwest corner of the Mich [...]
Rocks are history, but choicest skyline views restored
The Park District continues its massive rebuilding of the shoreline, replacing the old stone slab seawall with a [hopefully] more stable structure o [...]
Chicago sidewalk gardens do a lot with a little
It may not exactly be contributing to "Babylon in Chicago" on the scale of the lush green roofs topping some of the new condo buildings downtown, bu [...]
Chicago moves up to 5th in sustainability rank
The couple of million square feet of green roofs Chicago has created in recent years didn't help any, but the city still rose to 5th in a ranking of [...]
Where's the vision for Cicero Avenue, on Chicago's Southwest Side?
The city has missed some golden opportunities for economic development on the South Side. With the right sort of planning, U.S. Cellular Field could h [...]