Category: Video
The house of many gargoyles, Chicago
This home sits on Garfield Blvd, the southern border of the Back of the Yards neighborhood, facing Englewood.
Perhaps that explains the dozens of [...]
Amazing Grace – the girls on 56th and Wood
Today was National Rebuilding Day, and YoJoe and YoVal spent the day in Englewood, where Rebuilding Together Chicago was repairing 49 homes owned by [...]
Amazing Grace – the girls on 56th and Wood
Chicago's Englewood neighborhood is a tough place, but still a place where girls start with amazing grace.
Whether or not you're religious, say a [...]
A Beverly arts and crafts bungalow
Bonnie Chappell shows YoChicago's Mark Dalton around a lovingly updated bungalow at 1744 W 100th Pl. [...]
A home in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood
C21 Sussex & Reilly's Eileen Sheehan takes YoChicago's Mark Dalton on a tour of 10056 S Seeley Ave. [...]
Rare new construction in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood
A ground-up new home is an event in Beverly, where there's little or no vacant land to build on.
Join YoChicago's Kate Hawley and Sanaa Hachem on [...]
El Cid, a Mexican restaurant in Logan Square
Jose Gonzalez, the owner of El Cid, shows Michael Kardas and Joe Zekas around the restaurant and talks a bit about the ongoing remodeling.
Kardas' [...]
Yogi’s staircase made me a real estate agent
I've known Michael Kardas, a talented photographer, for nearly twenty years. Last week he stopped by my office to drop a huge surprise on me: he'd ac [...]
Staring out at the great divide
I've heard a number of South Siders express concern about the digital divide — the extent to which their communities may lag other parts of the [...]
A drive through North Beverly, Chicago, part three
Join me for the final part of a leisurely Saturday morning walk and drive through an area that may change your perception of Chicago's southwest side [...]
A drive through North Beverly
Join me for a leisurely Saturday morning walk and drive through an area that may change your perception of Chicago's southwest side. If I hadn't tol [...]
A walk and drive in North Beverly, Chicago, Part two
Join me for a leisurely Saturday morning walk and drive through an area that may change your perception of Chicago's southwest side. If I hadn't told [...]
A drive through North Beverly, Chicago, part one
Join me for a leisurely Saturday morning drive through an area that may change your perception of Chicago's southwest side. If I hadn't told you wher [...]
Beverly's Starbucks
Join Joe, Jeannie and Michelle on Starbucks' patio after the well-trained baristas invite Joe to cease photographing indoors unless corporate permis [...]
Are you in love with the condo you're buying?
Last week I toured The Grove, a condo / townhome development in Forest Park, with Focus Development's Tim Anderson.
When Tim mentioned that his daugh [...]
The Residences at The Grove, Forest Park
Developer Tim Anderson of Focus Development introduces us to this 200-unit condo and townhome development.
The Grove has urban conveniences in a l [...]
Are you in love with the condo you’re buying?
When Focus Development's Tim Anderson mentioned that his daughter was buying a condo, I asked what advice a savvy condo developer gave his daughter.
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Back to Prairie Avenue in Beverly
Yesterday marked a brief hiatus between our Prairie District Day coverage on Friday and today's start of Beverlly / Morgan Park Week.
Prairie Avenue [...]
Heritage Gallery, Beverly, Chicago
Jack Simmerling opened the gallery 50 years ago, fresh out of college. He's become as much of a landmark as any other in Chicago's Beverly neighborho [...]
Vanderpoel Magnet School car wash, Chicago
We happened upon a car wash staged to raise funds to improve the school's technology.
If you'd like to contribute, contact the school at 773-535-2 [...]