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Your neighborhood gives me the creeps
Take a video tour with Weird Chicago.
Pray tell, which neighborhoods give you the creeps? [...]
And you thought you lived in Buena Park
Little Arabia, according to Ray Hanania — the man who wrote the book on Chicago's Arabs — spans the area from Irving Park Road north to Pe [...]
Carnival Mondays: real estate gets all shook up
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by Seattle-based 360 Digest-- and they're calling it a "freak show." Stop by to learn about the connecti [...]
Mods and Greens face off in West Loop
In the fiercely competitive condo market, large-scale new developments in the early stages of construction must rely largely on an image to draw in [...]
Take a Smoque break with Erica
Watch Erica Gunderson's review of the newly-opened Smoque BBQ, 3800 N Pulaski Rd in Irving Park.
Smoque's also been getting some good reviews at Ye [...]
Chicago at night
It's good for us that Looper has a day jjob, since it means that we get to enjoy more of his fabulous photos of Chicago at night. Take a look. [...]
You are TIME Magazine's person of the year
Yes, you.
For participating in an online community like ours, for writing about your neighborhood, for giving us your expert opinion, for telling us [...]
Carnival Mondays: real estate blogs turn to video
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by the folks at Seattle Real Estate Professionals. Stop by to find an entire category devoted to video p [...]
Christmas in River West
It's Santa Cycle Rampage 2006, outside the Twisted Spoke at Grand and Ogden. See more at SantaCon Chicago, and look for more YoChicago photos at Fli [...]
Non-latinos lead Pilsen sex offenders
Pilsen may be nearly 90% Latino, but Latinos are outnumbered on the Chicago Police Department's roster of registered sex offenders. Meet your Pilsen n [...]
Carnival Mondays: all the real estate world's a stage
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by Active Rain. The "winner" of the week was a post breaking down the lifespan of a long-term real estat [...]
What price will make you move?
Zillow's latest holiday present for real estate agents is a virtual for sale sign.
Zillow describes Make me move™ as "a free and easy way to te [...]
Comment of the week – fun with Illinois Barbies
A recent post on the Loyola University ESL program's snub of Uptown led to a rousing debate on the relative safety of both Uptown and the neighborhood [...]
Why doesn't Loyola like Buena Park?
Loyola University's English as a Second Language Program Web site has the following advice for international students:
"The Uptown and Buena Park nei [...]
Carnival Mondays: do catty blogs pay off?
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by Property Monger. Head on over to learn about the National Association of Realtors' antitrust problems [...]
A video tour of State Street Village
Today's your lucky day. You get to walk through a great piece of architecture with a great architecture critic.
Join Lee Bey for a video tour of He [...]
At home with Brian Urlacher
Yo! RedEye alerted us to this MTV Cribs-like video tour of Super Bear Brian Urlacher's sprawling two-story home, somewhere in suburban Chicago. If you [...]
Carnival Mondays: Real estate for "real people"
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by Real Estate Investing for Real, which claimed to focus on recent real estate posts across the blogosp [...]
Lee Bey leaves SOM
We just learned, via architecture writer Lynn Becker's always informative Architecture Chicago Plus site, that former Sun-Times architecture critic Le [...]
Millennium Park — a sense of neighborhood
Last Thursday, The Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate at Roosevelt University, presented a number of perspectives on the redevelopment of Chicago's [...]