Housing, diversity and changes in Edgewater from the Edgewater Community Council
Acting Executive Director Aida Kulasic and President Nancy Schroeder of the Edgewater Community Council talk about diversity, housing and transformat [...]
Substation North Lofts puts the "Edge" in Edgewater
Now here's a development that puts the "Edge" in Edgewater. Sufa & Shemesh's Substation North Lofts is a conversion of a ComEd power station at 1128 [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Edgewater: Biking Edgewater
West Rogers Park / West Ridge: Neighborhood hist [...]
Keeping an eye out for the bus
The way things are at the CTA, you never know where the bus is coming from. Saturday morning on Bryn Mawr Ave in Edgewater. [...]
Staff the battlements
You'll find many fine examples of castellated architecture in Edgewater. These are two of my favorites. [...]
Education in Edgewater, Chicago
YoChicago's Barry Pearce interviews Aida Kulasic and Nancy Schroeder of the Edge YoChicago's Barry Pearce interviews Aida Kulasic and Nancy Schroeder [...]
Housing and diversity in Edgewater, Chicago
YoChicago's Barry Pearce interviews Aida Kulasic and Nancy Schroeder of the Edgewater Community Council [...]
Take a Smoque break with Erica
Watch Erica Gunderson's review of the newly-opened Smoque BBQ, 3800 N Pulaski Rd in Irving Park.
Smoque's also been getting some good reviews at Ye [...]
An Edgewater mural and collage
This is a section of a larger mural sponsored by the Granville Ridge Neighbors under the Ravenswood Metra tracks at Granville, at the western border [...]
Why Erica likes Irving Park
Erica shows YoChicago's Nat swift around her neighborhood and talks about what she likes about it. [...]
Erica and Nat walk The Villa
Join YoChicago on this walk through a Chicago landmark district in the Irving Park neighborhood [...]
Take a Smoque break with Erica
Join Erica Gunderson and YoChicagos Nat Swift outside Smoque BBQ, a hot new restaurant in Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood. [...]
Presidential polling in Rosehill Cemetery
There's little suspense about how the dead will turn out in the next election, so I decided to poll the living in Rosehill instead.
There was no on [...]
Presidential polling in Rosehill Cemetery
In Chicago, we know which way the dead will vote, so I sampled the living in this cemetery - Canadian geese. Barack Obama won the first round; Al Gor [...]
Back in the saddle again
I was at Edgewater's Saddle & Cycle Club this morning for the first time in about 20 years.
After walking around and taking pictures for about 10 min [...]
Plunge into Edgewater next week at YoChicago
Next week is Edgewater week at the Yo. All week long we'll be bringing you posts, photos, links and videos from Chicago's densest neighborhood, the l [...]
Is Chicago The City of the Future?
The Chicago Loop could take on a whole new meaning 100 years from now. The History Channel is hosting a design and engineering challenge to find The [...]
Bucktown loft building trades brick for glass
When we first told you about Bucktown's The Baer Lofts, 1927 N Milwaukee Ave, there was some speculation as to what would be done about the small, [...]
A tale of 2 temples – Ravenswood's Buddhists more neighborhood-friendly than Uptown's
The area around Leland and Broadway in Uptown has seen some positive activity during the last several years, with a variety of new shops, a new heal [...]
Update: landmark demolition proposal rejected
With the support of city planners, Prism Development Company expected its plans to demolish the landmark Farwell Building, 664 N Michigan Ave, to be a [...]