Hungry? Try Andersonville in Edgewater neighborhood
Burgers or baklava? Steak or sushi? Turkish or Swedish? If you're hungry, but you're not quite sure what for, cruise Clark Street through the Anders [...]
Following Troutman scandal, what does Woodlawn's future hold?
Yo's truly wonders what the future holds for Woodlawn now that the heat is on Alderman Arenda Troutman (20th). Last year, we interviewed Troutman fo [...]
Leif Forre, Wall to Wall Framing
YoChicago visits an Edgewater custom picture framer [...]
Edgewater's Belle Shore apartments a bargain
Art Deco architecture abounds in Edgewater's Bryn Mawr Historic District, located along three blocks of Bryn Mawr Avenue from Lake Shore Drive to Bro [...]
A study in materials in Chicago's East Village
Check out the random mix of building materials on this new single-family home at 527 N Wood St in East Village, a neighborhood that has seen a massiv [...]
Dead man parking on Chicago streets
The city of Chicago set aside special handicapped street parking for at least 260 dead people in 2006, according to a story in today's Chicago Sun-Tim [...]
Senn High School principal on new military academy, gentrification, falling enrollment
The controversy over a new military academy at Nicholas Senn High School has faded among the student body, according to the principal, but the challe [...]
Edgewater single-family home gives peace a chance
While the homes surrounding it remain pretty humdrum, this single-family home in Edgewater proudly wears its politics on its sleeve (we won't disclo [...]
Chicago auction action: parking spaces in Old Town
Fancy buying a parking space for $12,500 or less? On Feb 20, auction house Rick Levin & Associates is selling 24 spaces at 1445 N Sedgwick St. The hea [...]
Chicago auction action: slower condo market keeps auctioneer busy
Going, going, not gone! More developers are resorting to auctions as the Chicagoland housing market slows down, according to Rick Levin of Rick Levin [...]
MOX mends Old Town Triangle Victorian
We must be jonesing over historic houses today. We've already looked at the three River North mansions that The Habitat Company is marketing, and now [...]
Citizens State Bank Lofts mixes up old and new
An old bank at Lincoln Avenue and Melrose Street is getting the pastiche treatment and will re-emerge as Citizens Bank Lofts. Developer Gary Solomon [...]
Update: dance all night in Chicago's Loop
We've already given you a heads up on Looptopia, the Chicago Loop Alliance's all-night arts and cultural festival in the Loop. The Chicago Tribune t [...]
Inside the historic mansions of River North
Last week we told you about the three historic mansions that The Habitat Company is marketing in River North. Yo's truly peeked inside the homes rece [...]
Edgewater avenues home to more than just four-plus-ones
Edgewater's Winthrop and Kenmore avenues may have four-plus-ones in spades, but the residential corridor really is a hodgepodge of eye-catching vint [...]
Oh, east is east and west is west
Edgewater may be a collection of numerous smaller neighborhoods, but Broadway divides it into two sharply different ones. And Kipling had it right [...]
Faces of which Chicago 'hood?
This one ought to be a no-brainer. In which neighborhood did photographer Barry Peterson capture these people enjoying lunch? Let's up the stakes - n [...]
Chicago's Andersonville gets nod as eco-friendly community
Yo isn't the only one focused on Edgewater this week. The January / February 2007 issue of Natural Home magazine ranks Andersonville, a sub-neighborh [...]