Farewell Sacred Heart Chapel
The Lake Forest City Council last night approved a plan to raze the wing of the former Barat College that houses Sacred Heart Chapel - a final blow [...]
Ripped from the headlines: the end of Barat chapel
Barat chapel to be razed Trib
Fifield, partner eye $400M in multifamily builds Globe St.
City to buy veterans museum building? Sun-Times
Arquite [...]
Name the nabe of the pink-and-red storefronts
We've got a thing about pink here at YoChicago, so we couldn't resist showing you this photo, taken several weeks ago on the South Side by photograp [...]
Little Black Pearl, art and business in Bronzeville
Join Monica Haslip for a tour of this exciting institution.
Its mission: "is to create opportunities for youth and adults to deepen their creative [...]
Carnival of Real Estate: first international edition
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is a first-ever international edition, hosted by London's very own Renthusiast. Find out why property in Morocco i [...]
Miller Place offers pre-construction prices for all-masonry building
If you're reluctant to buy into one of those cinderblock buildings that have dominated the new-construction scene in recent years, then the all-maso [...]
We like to watch: giant loft in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood
It would be hard to grow out of this 4,424-square-foot custom-designed loft at 3157 S Archer Ave in Bridgeport. The two-bedroom four-bath whopper [...]
Shops and Lofts at 47 planned on Cottage Grove Avenue
A spring 2008 groundbreaking is planned for The Shops and Lofts at 47 (pdf), which will stretch along Cottage Grove Avenue from 47th to 48th streets [...]
Rubloff honors top sellers
Rubloff Residential Properties recently handed out awards to its top sellers - five agents who generated $200 million in sales during 2006. Mario Grec [...]
Chicago Park District to build park in North Kenwood – Oakland
We posted recently that Draper and Kramer is the developer of a 1.8-acre park in North Kenwood - Oakland. Yo has since learned that the park is a Chic [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Urban renewal transforms Bronzeville
Urban renewal transforms Bronzeville Trib
Umberger: some markets show signs of warming Trib
55 E Monroe offers Millennium Park views Trib
City v [...]
Bear with us while we transition
Web sites like this one are pretty complex organisms.
We're in the midst of a transition to a new design - that process will be ongoing over the next [...]
Bays will be bays
Or is it "bows will be bows?"
We spotted these beauties in the 4300 block of S Vincennes Ave, in the North Kenwood / Bronzeville neighborhood. [...]
Pardon our dust – Yo design improvements coming this weekend
We've been working hard at the Yo during the last year to bring you the biggest, bestest, funnest site devoted to Chicago housing and neighborhoods on [...]
Video of the day – artistmac goes to Wal-Mart
Get in the car with artistmac and drive from the South Side to Chicago's first Wal-Mart. Hear one man's take on the Big Box Ordinance along the way. [...]
Toys in the office
Architect Pat FitzGerald, atop one of his office toys, following our video interview with him a while back. [...]
Chicago Chick is moving out of Chicago
Blogger Chicago Chick is trying to move from her Bucktown condo to the northern suburbs, causing her no small amount of anxiety. We wish her well - t [...]
Gray skies over the Issel building
Uptown has a generous sprinkling of buildings with gorgeous terra cotta facades. The Issel Building, on the corner of Clark Street and Wilson Avenue [...]
Modern Esoterica comes to Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood
Besides a geometric design that reminds us of the video game Tetris, we're not sure what's so esoteric about Esoterica, a six-unit condo building a [...]
Clock ticks on Olympic nod
As you've no doubt heard, the United States Olympic Committee announces tomorrow whether Chicago or Los Angeles will join the international competit [...]