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