Category: Web sites
Neighborhoods for the rest of us – Hegewisch
Hegewisch, at the far southeast corner ot the city, bordering Indiana, is Chicago's most geographically isolated neighborhood. It's isolated by na [...]
Tour the Chatham area with Thornton29
One of our readers, Thornton29, has been looking to buy a home in and around the Chatham neighborhood on Chicago's south side.
You can see Thornton [...]
Schlock architecture — typo or snarky commentary?
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks Web page for the Schlect House at 5804 W Race Ave, pictured above, refers to the architect as "Frederick R. Schl [...]
The bubble rap forum is live
Reader Ken, who apparently believes there's a housing bubble, sent us an e-mail saying it's time for a forum on the subject.
Maybe it is - you'll dec [...]
Only a mark would landmark The Villa
I spent some time yesterday in The Villa, a Chicago landmark district in Irving Park.
The Villa is bounded by Addison Ave (3600 N) on the south, Av [...]
"No room for people like us"
Reader Jason, in a comment on a New Homes Magazine article, expressed his feeling that "Middle income African Americans have become unwelcome as land [...]
Store stocks "green" supplies for home improvements
From today's Gapers Block:
Greenmaker, 2500 N Pulaski Rd, bills itself as Chicago's green building supply store, with materials for environmentally c [...]
Beware of West Bucktown?
A post in a discussion forum at Craigslist alerts us to the formation of the "West Bucktown Neighborhood Association."
The post relates a debate amon [...]
Neighborhood forums – whew!
We've just finished checking and double-checking our Neighborhood forums against our master list of neighborhoods.
We've added a "sticky" thread at t [...]
YoChicago launches 700 forums for Chicagoland neighborhoods and housing
It's the moment you've all been waiting for. Well, maybe not all, but certainly a vocal subset of you with strong opinions about or interest in Chicag [...]
If it's Tuesday there will be forums
Some of you - the ones we like the best - want to come to YoChicago to talk about things we're not talking about.
You've been asking when our forums [...]
Move over housing. Chicago Reader now in just 3 sections!
Friday's Chicago Reader accounced that all housing classifieds - homes for rent, homes for sale and housing to share - would now be listed in the back [...]
Search the Chicago MLS — and get suckered
If you didn't know better — and nothing on the site helps you know better — you might think that Chicago-MLS.net was the Web site for "the [...]
The teardown debate – out of the abstract
The debate over teardowns and McMansions takes on a different cast, we think, when it moves from the abstract to the concrete. Or, more appropriatel [...]
And you thought Helen Shiller was crazy?
Opinion in Chicago's 46th Ward has long been divided about the ward's long-term alderman, Helen Shiller. She's a bit of a saint to some, and a bit of [...]
Zillow heat map of Chicago prices
The Zillow heat map of per square foot housing prices in Chicago gives you an at-a-glance grasp of comparative prices in all of Cook County. Check it [...]
Evanston and Highland Park photo albums
If you haven't been to downtown Evanston in a while - I hadn't - you'll be amazed at the transformation, and at the continuity.
We've posted nearly [...]
Two thumbs up for Lexington Park video
The Web site for Lexington Park Condominiums, the 297-unit new-construction condo development planned for 2138 S Indiana Ave, is now hosting a four- [...]
North shore monopolizes Zillow $1M ZIP list
According to Zillow Blog, Illinois has 3 ZIP codes where the median price of a home is over $1 million.
Leading the pack is Kenilworth (60043) at $ [...]
Adding a bedroom doubles the price in Glencoe
We just found this fascinating tidbit about housing prices at the North Shore Real Estate Data site: a 4-bedroom house in Glencoe prices out at an ave [...]