Chatham Crossing sales fueled by neighborhood returnees
With all of the buzz surrounding new developments in mid-South Side neighborhoods such as North Kenwood, Woodlawn and Bronzeville, little seems to be [...]
Chatham Food Center, a neighborhood institution
Join us for a brief walk through one of the fewer than two dozen African-American owned supermarkets in the entire United States, and meet its owner [...]
Chatham Village Square, Chicago
A walk around this successful new shopping center, anchored by Target, at the northwest corner of East 87th St and South Cottage Grove Ave. [...]
A drive through Pill Hill
Pill Hill resident Fallon Russell guides YoChicago on a drive through this affluent, largely African-American neighborhood. She talks about life in [...]
A drive through Chicago’s Pill Hill
Pill Hill resident Fallon Russell guides YoChicago on a drive through this affluent, largely African-American neighborhood. She talks about life in P [...]
Chatham Food Center, a Chicago neighborhood institution
Join us for a brief walk through one of the fewer than two dozen African-American owned supermarkets in the entire United States, and meet its owner, [...]
Sales are underway at Renaissance Lofts
Sales are underway at The Kopley Group's Renaissance Lofts, a 37-unit adaptive-reuse project at 1791 W Howard Street in Rogers Park. The six-story bui [...]
Pill Hill's Advocate Trinity Hospital dispenses care
We told you earlier that "Pill Hill" was apparently named for the many doctors who once lived in the neighborhood. It's ties to the medical community [...]
Comment of the day: fearing a hollow city
"We have to be very careful about the precedent that the Farwell sets. If people are able to hollow out historic buildings, especially in such a promi [...]
Developer talks Spire tonight
Fans of supertall skyscrapers or Irish accents will want to drop by the Chicago Architecture Foundation tonight to hear Dubliner Garrett Kelleher di [...]
Carnival Mondays: wascally Realtors
This week's Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by The Phoenix Real Estate Guy. Stop by to find out which real estate agents compare to Looney Tunes cha [...]
Owens Park is a highlight of Calumet Heights
But wait, there's more South Triangle Week fun to come. Calumet Heights, and the smaller neighborhood of Pill Hill, are bounded by 87th Street, 95th S [...]
Brush up on your South Triangle history
Kick off South Triangle week at YoChicago with a little history lesson on the neighborhoods we're looking at:
Chatham, which "has the distinction of [...]
Welcome to South Triangle Week
No, South Triangle isn't a place where planes mysteriously disappear. It's what we're calling the wedge of the South Side between I-94, the Skyway a [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Lake View: Keeping it clean
River North: The resident's perspective
Old I [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Ward's building sold
Ward's building sold for $300 million Crain's
Firm buys 420-unit apt. building Globe St.
Get a condo on YouTube Chicagoist
30 W Oak progressing [...]
A walk through Ravenswood Manor, Chicago
Chris Moran, a 20-year resident of the neighborhood, takes us to the new Francisco Brown Line stop, down the 2900 block of Eastwood to Ravenswood Man [...]
Celebrating the life of Vernie Joseph French, Sr
Vernie Joseph French, Sr, was an extraordinary man who died recently at age 85.
We were at St Clotilde Church, in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, [...]
A walk through Celestial House
This is not your ordinary house tour. But then, Celestial House, 3350 S. Calumet Ave in Bronzeville, is no ordinary renovation, and developer Bill L [...]
The mother of all bungalows
See the "grand bungalow" that was recently renovated as part of Auburn Gresham's model blocks project. Carlos Nelson talks about property values an [...]