Category: Video

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Beverly’s Starbucks, Chicago

Beverly’s Starbucks, Chicago

Some neighborhoods react to a Starbucks' opening with a shrug or a "not another one!" In Chicago's Beverly / Morgan Park neighborhood, the coming [...]
Lake View mayor holes up in City Hall

Lake View mayor holes up in City Hall

The time was 1889, and the mayor was protesting his township's annexation to Chicago, which needed the population to qualify for the 1893 World's Fa [...]
Inspired by gentrification

Inspired by gentrification

Meet Cory Jones. He spends his nights as a Chicago policeman in the tough Fifth District. During a part of his days, he's a real estate developer. [...]
Inside the Prairie District Townhomes

Inside the Prairie District Townhomes

Kim McNeece, an agent with Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate, shows YoChicago around this resale unit at the Prairie District Townhomes, 1830 S Calume [...]
Tour the Prairie District's Lakeside Lofts with Robbie Frankel

Tour the Prairie District's Lakeside Lofts with Robbie Frankel

Bluestone Development's Robbie Frankel takes us on a tour of Lakeside Lofts, 2025 S Indiana Ave, a new-construction project offering one- and two-bed [...]
Pompous video of the day – Calatrava style

Pompous video of the day – Calatrava style

Watch part of Santiago Calatrava's presentation yesterday to the Chicago Plan Commission. Ah, the music of the spire! Watch Santiago draw, and mumb [...]
The history of the Prairie District with Tina Feldstein

The history of the Prairie District with Tina Feldstein

Once home to Chicago's rich and famous, the historic neighborhood pocket known as the Prairie Avenue District has returned to prominence during the [...]
A bit of Lake View, Chicago history

A bit of Lake View, Chicago history

We paused to look at something unusual - a poster in a yard outlining some neighborhood history - and chanced upon the owner. Victorrio Giustino, Ch [...]
X/O Condominiums — the developer's perspective

X/O Condominiums — the developer's perspective

In the first part of our interview, X/O's developers, Jerry Karlik and Keith Giles, talk about why they opted for architect Lucien Lagrange's innova [...]
X/O Condominiums – what sets it apart

X/O Condominiums – what sets it apart

Developers Jerry Karlik and Keith Giles talk about some of the features - the spa and park, among others - that set X/O apart from the competition in [...]
X/O Condominiums, the architecture

X/O Condominiums, the architecture

Many developers shy away from working with a name architect. The developers of X/O, Jerry Karlik and Keith Giles, talk about the innovative archit [...]
X/O condos – the evolving South Loop market

X/O condos – the evolving South Loop market

Developers Jerry Karlik and Keith Giles, talk about why they opted for architect Lucien Lagrange's innovative dancing towers, how the Prairie Distric [...]
Warm, safe and dry in Englewood and Markham

Warm, safe and dry in Englewood and Markham

A week from Saturday is National Rebuilding Day, and over 1,000 volunteers will be working on repairs and renovations at 72 homes in the city's Engl [...]
Who’s moving to North Kenwood / Bronzeville

Who’s moving to North Kenwood / Bronzeville

Developer Cory Jones talks about the range of people he's seeing moving to the neighborhood in which he's just renovated a vintage six-flat. [...]
Becoming a real estate developer

Becoming a real estate developer

How does a person decide to become a real estate developer? There are as many paths to the decision, in all likelihood, as there are real estate d [...]
Bronzeville is rising rapidly

Bronzeville is rising rapidly

YoChicago visits developer Cory Jones at his six-flat vintage restoration at 4314 S Vincennes in Chicago's North Kenwood / Bronzeville neighborhood. [...]
4314 S Vincennes restoration, Bronzeville, Chicago

4314 S Vincennes restoration, Bronzeville, Chicago

The restoration of this six-flat condo was a labor (lots of labor) of love for developer Cory Jones. Join us as he takes us around a vintage beaut [...]
Rebuilding Together, Metro Chicago

Rebuilding Together, Metro Chicago

Rebuilding Together repairs and renovates homes to enable elderly and low-income individuals to stay warm, safe and dry in their homes. Executive [...]
Tour Little Black Pearl's stunning kids' art facility in North Kenwood – Oakland

Tour Little Black Pearl's stunning kids' art facility in North Kenwood – Oakland

Monica Haslip, executive director of Little Black Pearl, 1060 E 47th St, in North Kenwood - Oakland, recently gave us a tour of the stunning arts fa [...]
A home in Chicago’s Prairie District

A home in Chicago’s Prairie District

Kim McNeece of Koenig & Strey walks us through a townhome in Chicago's historic Prairie District, an area that's seen an explosive growth in recent y [...]
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