Category: Video
New construction in the West Loop
Earlier in the week, Joe and I got out of the office for a couple of hours and took a stroll through the West Loop and shot a follow-up to Joe's Feb [...]
Looking at Urban Sandbox
Joseph Askins checks out the construction site at 1611 N Wolcott Ave in Wicker Park, where Ranquist Development is building eight new condominiums an [...]
Boots on the ground at Cullerton and Sangamon streets
Joe and Mark from YoChicago.com drove down to Pilsen to get a look at the intersection of Cullerton and Sangamon streets, where seven new condominium [...]
Boots on the ground
As I just mentioned, Mark and I spent a few minutes at Cullerton and Sangamon yesterday afternoon. After all that talk about Pilsen, the neighborhoo [...]
Joewalking on and around Division Street
If it seems like Mark and I have been writing about Division Street developments a lot over the past couple of days, it's because we took a trip ove [...]
Joewalking on and around Division Street
Joseph Askins of YoChicago.com takes a stroll down Division Street on the southern edge of Wicker Park to get a look at the neighborhood's new reside [...]
Erie Park, the view from Freedom Center
Erie Park, in Chicago's River North neighborhood, is a scene that was unimaginable just a few years ago.
Today there's a bank of new high-rises fr [...]
Learning about new homes through Move.com
In the last of our videos from the Midwest Builders Show in Rosemont, Val and Lou talk to Andy Brown, a sales director for Move.com, the official li [...]
Plumbing made simple with all-in-one box
In the latest installment from Val and Lou's trip to the Midwest Builders Show in Rosemont, Chuck Persico of Kyne Industries shows off his company's [...]
Talking with an architect at the Midwest Builders Show
One of the many people Val and Lou met at the Midwest Builders Show in Rosemont was Luka Andjelich, an architect of Styczynski Walker & Associat [...]
A quick look at Lakeside Lofts
Patrick and I couldn't persuade the sales manager at Lakeside Lofts to lead a video tour of her project's two-bedroom model, so you'll have to settl [...]
Touring a Fletcher Row townhouse
Patrick spent part of Monday in Hamlin Park (or West Roscoe Village, West Lake View, North Center or Riverview), home of Bluestone Development's new [...]
A quick walk through a Lakeside Loft
Patrick Rollens and Joseph Askins of YoChicago.com take a quick stroll through one of the models at Lakeside Lofts in Chicago's South Loop. [...]
Touring Fletcher Row
Robbie Frankel of Bluestone Development takes YoChicago.com's Patrick Rollens through a model unit at Fletcher Row, a new townhouse development at 24 [...]
In stock and ready to – race?
Val was particularly taken with Stock Building Supply's booth at the Midwest Builders Show.
The company, which provides construction materials and [...]
Walking through Park 1000's model
I've written recently about the wedge-shaped balconies at Park 1000, Renaissant Development Group's 40-story high-rise planned for 1000 S Michigan A [...]
An artist and his models on display
In this video from the Midwest Builders Show, Val chats with Bob Marson, owner of Marson Art, Ltd. in Plano, Ill.
Marson's livelihood is model-maki [...]
Touring Frankel & Giles' Prairie District Lofts
Patrick and I stopped by the Prairie District Lofts sales center at just the right time. Frankel & Giles' sales team just moved from a commercia [...]
Walking through the Park 1000 model
Consulting associate Christos Papanastasatos takes Joseph Askins and Patrick Rollens of YoChicago.com through a model unit at Park 1000's sales cente [...]
Touring the Prairie District Lofts sales center
Joseph Askins and Patrick Rollens of YoChicago.com walk through the sales center and a single-bedroom unit at Prairie District Lofts, 1727 S Indiana [...]