Category: Video
In Logan Square, a new rental six-flat
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The growing roster of new high-rise construction in downtown Chicago has been generating a lot of attention recently, bu [...]
Marie Spear’s view from the tower crane at K2
Some say that the tower crane operator has the most critical job in the construction of a high-rise building.
At K2, a 34-story apartment tower un [...]
A large historic home on a great Old Town Triangle block
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The Frederick Wacker home in Chicago's landmark Old Town Triangle neighborhood is one of the largest and most distinctiv [...]
A New Year’s Day open house at a new Wilmette home
If you guessed that no one would want to visit open houses on New Year's Day, you would have guessed wrong.
Within 50 minutes of the time it opene [...]
We’ll find you a Chicago rental as cool as this one
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"This one" is a 4-bedroom, 4 ½ bath Old Town home with everything a luxury renter would want for the $5,500 a month a [...]
A highly-addictive Christmas lights and music show in Wilmette
My daughter Val and I headed over to the corner of Cleveland St and Thornwood Ave in Wilmette, planning to spend a few minutes seeing the Christmas l [...]
A Mag Mile duplex penthouse with dramatic lake and city views
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This 48th and 49th floor penthouse at 100 East Huron has sweeping lake and city views to the east and north -- including [...]
Macy’s, the Grinch that stole Chicago’s Christmas
At Macy's on State Street it's the "Season of Light" and allusions to traditional Christmas themes have been ruthlessly purged from the window displa [...]
A new model, and updated Lakeview East apartments
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Planned Property Management has rolled out a series of new furnished apartments at a number of its Gold Coast, Lincoln Pa [...]
An affordably furnished new model in a Lincoln Park high-rise
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Planned Property Management has rolled out a series of new furnished apartments at a number of its Gold Coast, Lincoln Pa [...]
Night Roars at the Arts Center at Logan Square’s Hairpin Lofts
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Night Roars, a cabaret-style variety show co-produced by Voice of the City and Striding Lion, featured nine b [...]
A Lake View studio model with character
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450 West Melrose, in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood is a four-plus-one or, in the words of Planned Property's Dan M [...]
Meet Charlie Zechel, a master cement finisher
The focus of work this week at K2 at K Station is completing site excavation and forming and pouring the basement walls of this new high-rise apartme [...]
A large, character-laden South Loop loft
When you think of a loft you conjure sunlit sprawling spaces with high ceilings, exposed brick, and a lot of character. Too often all you find is a d [...]
Affordable artist live / work lofts in Logan Square
The landmark Morris Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee Ave in Logan Square has been transformed into Hairpin Lofts, a community resource where Logan [...]
The Wilmette Christmas House, a Warren A. Perkins memorial
The Christmas display in the 2000 block of Wilmette Ave isn't the most elaborate in town, but it's certainly the one that evokes the fondest memories [...]
Greenview Gardens, a Rogers Park condo price collapse
I stopped by Greenview Gardens in Rogers Park, 7633 -- 39 N Greenview, to check the condition of the building.
What prompted my visit was a steep [...]
Pouring the first columns at K2 at K Station
The focus of the week that began on Monday, November 28, was the erection of the tower crane that will do the heavy lifting in building K2, a 34-stor [...]
A 4-day erection in 4 minutes – the tower crane at K2
The "four-day erection" phrase comes from the crane's owner. It's industry jargon.
In the video you can watch a giant telescopic crane, together w [...]
Talking about the tower crane at K2
Earlier today I spent some time chatting with Marie, an 18-year veteran crane operator, who will be half of the team operating the tower crane at K2 [...]