Name the alderman of the nabe
We realize that no one named the nabe of the little pink house on Monday, so today we're making things a little bit easier. In fact, we're making th [...]
We like to watch: inside West Loop loft
Yeah, we love to look at lofts, and where are they better than in the West Loop? This two-bedroom penthouse at 728 W Jackson Blvd has two bedrooms, [...]
Construction update: 1720 S. Michigan
The South Loop is so full of high-rise construction sites that it's sometimes hard to tell one building from the next, but CMK Companies' 1720 S. M [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Bridgeport Village files for bankruptcy
Bridgeport Village files for bankruptcy Trib
Fight over Farwell Building set for tomorrow Gapers Block
Sellers try online auctions in slow market [...]
Winthrop Club: "green" building in Evanston
The Yo recently paid a visit to the Winthrop Club Condominiums sales center in Evanston and heard sales manager Chad Baugh dish on the 110-unit high- [...]
Brisk sales at Union Row
Although the model at Union Row just opened in January of this year, sales are moving along at a very brisk pace. Approximately 20 of the 35 East Pi [...]
A (literally) moving tribute to Chicago's Elks Memorial
Several blogs, including Edward Lifson's New Modernist and Gaper's Block, have recently highlighted the work of commercial photographer Robert Harshm [...]
Construction update: The Tides is high
There's an awful lot going on at Lakeshore East, and The Tides is at the center of it all. The 51-story rental building will have 607 studio to two- [...]
Fewer families in Uptown as condo development alters landscape
Conversions of sturdy and often beautiful old two-flats and larger apartment buildings account for a big chunk of the housing market in Uptown and Edg [...]
Grand Bend at Green Bay, Evanston, IL
Join YoChicago on Metro Chicago Real Estate's Realtor Tour at this new development, billed as the gateway to west Evanston. [...]
Barbara’s Bookstore, University Village, Chicago
YoChicago's Mark Dalton talks with store manager David Schwartz about the changes he's seen in the neighborhood, which borders the University of Illi [...]
Quote of the day: history in the rubble
"It is a sad thing to see a part of history laying in rubble and you can't retrieve it."
- Judy Barclay of Citizens United to Retain Residential Bal [...]
Comment of the Day: Chicago is losing its Bohemians
"want to see more artists in Chicago? find a way to keep rents affordable. I don't know if an acquisition-based property tax (coupled with a tax swap [...]
Pioneering spirit on Wilson and Magnolia avenues in Uptown
When businessman Nick Novich decides to open a new bar, he picks a neighborhood that he thinks could use some pioneering. Last summer, Novich, who has [...]
Trump Tower aims high on riverfront
An awed "whoa" was Dana Sindha's gut reaction to Trump International Hotel & Tower, under construction at 401 N. Wabash Ave. in River North. The 27- [...]
Not every retail stretch has to be trendy
It's easy to dismiss the upper reaches of Broadway Street in Edgewater as merely a wide, noisy thoroughfare, but to do so overlooks the fact that this [...]
Hundreds of new homes coming to Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood
Proclaiming that Brighton Park is on the move, a story in Friday's Chicago Sun-Times cited plans for a new 84-unit Lexington Homes development a [...]
Construction begins on 2 South Loop high-rises
Aqua isn't the only tower to break ground recently. In a drive through the South Loop yesterday, we saw that work has also begun at Lexington Park [...]
BusinessWeek.com rates top cities for artists – and Chicago doesn't make the cut
We were perplexed to see that Chicago isn't on BusinessWeek.com's list of top 10 places for artists to live, losing out to Carson City, Nev., and Nass [...]
Andersonville's Clark Street retail pushes south of Foster
Speaking of southward migrations in Andersonville, as we were a little earlier, the Clark Street retail scene has spilled past the neighborhood's offi [...]