Category: Vignettes
Daley to announce sale of Lincoln Park
Just a bit of pre-Friday silliness to get your attention. Actually, Daley and Blago are entering into an agreement to swap Lincoln Park for the Illino [...]
The white girl with the 90 pound dog
Somewhere on Chicago's south side, near a university, you'll find ChiKat. In addition to the dog, she has fish — but she thinks of them as an ap [...]
Mystery turtle appears in Wicker Park
File this one under "w.t.f." Out and about in Wicker Park, Yo spotted "this strange little turtle" screwed to the side of a building at North Hoyne [...]
Roti relative makes a fortune from failed Blue Bag Program
In a post yesterday, we mentioned how a New York Times story praising Chicago's environmentally friendly approach to development and civic life failed [...]
Prize-winning array of boxes
Chicago Apartment Therapy reports (with photos) on what passes for a prize-winning rooftop garden. Sigh. [...]
Man, new construction is so gay
We've heard a slew of adjectives used to describe new construction, but this graffiti on the sign for 1719 W Winona St takes the cake. Given the dem [...]
There was a building there this morning
The scene at 10 this morning.
1400 block of Belmont, in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood.
The scene at 4:30 this afternoon. If you need to mak [...]
Happy National Flavors Day: the lowdown on Chicago's painted people
Ah, it warms the Yo's heart to see people of all different colors banding together in the streets to draw attention to an important cause. Perhaps th [...]
Throwing away money on Addison Street
We love being suckered into a viral marketing gig.
Show us that you do too. Join Yo's Uptown journal in speculating on yesterday's post-game action [...]
Superior Street homeowner enjoys life sandwiched between high-rises
The Chicago Sun-Times has a fun story this morning on Gregory Cooper and his home, a narrow single-family at 154 W Superior St sandwiched between two [...]
Hard cheese for bubble touters
Google searchers have consistently shown a lot more interest in hardwood floors than in the housing bubble. And, except for a brief spike in the first [...]
Garcia is third and Rodriguez fifth
Just in case you were wondering about the most common surnames among Illinois home buyers ...
Builder online reports that a DataQuick survey of deeds [...]
Chicago cemeteries: people are dying to live across from them?
Our last post on the new development Rainbo Village, 4836 N Clark St, pointed out the great location in Uptown. We didn't mention that it sits across [...]
Chicago's narrowest alley
Your Lincoln Navigator and H1 Hummer are 13.5 and 17.5 inches wider than the car pictured. Feeling lucky today?
This strait is just south of Belmon [...]
A mural only a mother can love
Up against this wall, mother!
See Leanne Raney's take on this Chipotle mural at Yo Chicago's Lake View journal. [...]
Mommy and Daddy are at work in Skokie
While seeking out interesting photo opportunities recently for New Homes' Skokie profile, I walked into Chuck E. Cheese's at Village Crossing, and ask [...]
Foxes guarding henhouse more effectively with new hotline
After the Chicago Sun-Times ran a tongue-in-cheek headline about a new hotline established by City Hall's corruption watchdog -- 1-800-Turn-'em-In -- [...]
city site zoned for horses, skyline view in Chicago
No, the picture above is not a Photoshopped montage. You can catch this bucolic tableau on the corner of Sedgwick and Evergreen, where the stars of t [...]
Essential construction equipment
The Cat? The crane? The port-a-potty? The dumpster? The cement mixer? Nope.
The only essential piece of construction equipment in this photo is the [...]
Are falcons forcing displacement in Uptown, or are critics pigeons in their own right?
Did we see the metaphorical implications of our recent Uptown pigeon-eating falcons post? Of course, we did, 'cause friends, everything in Uptown's [...]