535 Park Ave, Wilmette 3
YoChicago's Joe Zekas and Coldwell Banker's Lyn Flannery in the family room of this $1,299,000 new construction home. [...]
606 Locust Ave, Wilmette IL 2
Join YoChicago's Joe Zekas and Coldwell Banker's Lyn Flannery in the kitchen and family room of this new home, priced at $1,250,000. [...]
606 Locust Ave, Wilmette IL 1
Join YoChicago's Joe Zekas and Coldwell Banker's Lyn Flannery for a walk through the "master spa" and lower level of this new construction home, for [...]
Wilmette teardowns – a walk down my block
YoChicago's Joe Zekas looks at some of the teardown activity on his block in west Wilmette, and speculates on the future course of the area. [...]
Wilmette teardowns – the view from my driveway
YoChicago's Joe Zekas stands in his driveway in west Wilmette and looks at the teardown phenomenon in his neighborhood. [...]
Art reflects life and perhaps inspires homeowners at The Franklin Building
Loft lovers get a little art history thrown into the mix at The Franklin Building, 720 S Dearborn St. Back in the day, artist Oskar Gross created a s [...]
Westhaven Park livens up Near West Side
On its own, any of the segments that make up the low-rise buildings at the Near West Side's Westhaven Park would be dreadfully boring, but combined, [...]
Dept. of protesting too much: it's a great time to buy a home – really
If you read today's New York Times, Wall Street Journal or USA Today, you might have seen a full page ad informing you that, "It's a great time to buy [...]
Real estate developer Rezko $50M in debt
Seems like building new homes in Chicago during the last decade would have been a fine way to amass a healthy nest egg for a rainy day, but it didn't [...]
Skidmore Owings and Merrill retrospective – brilliant or The Three Blind Mies?
Gapers Block has alerted us to a slideshow over at Slate magazine's Web site which marks the 70th anniversary of the architectural firm Skidmore Owin [...]
CBI Custom Homes builds $3.9 million Tudor in Glencoe
I've been trying to decide how to spend my $3.9 million bonus from YoChicago, and I'm thinking maybe CBI Custom Homes' brick, stone and stucco Engli [...]
The Windy City's getting damn cold – can we turn on the heat?
Fall seems to have come and gone in the blink of an eye, and all we're left with are a few yellow leaves and the winter weather. YoChicago's Val refle [...]
Which comes first, the teardown or the sign?
We couldn't help but snicker at the huge Sussex & Reilly sign placed in front of the rinky-dink wooden single-family home at 1654 N Campbell Ave. T [...]
Glass panels going up on MoMo
This week we saw how much glass spruced up the skeleton of Trump Tower, and we also got to witness firsthand as workers began installing enormous g [...]
535 Park Ave, Wilmette 2
A brief riff from Coldwell Banker's Lyn Flannery on the livability of this $1.299M 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath new construction home. [...]
Foreclosing on gossip
The Sun-Times reports that Bill Zwecker, its gossip columnist, is late paying the mortgage on his Streeterville condo and the lender has filed a forec [...]
535 Park Ave, Wilmette 1
An overview of Wilmette, Illinois from Coldwell Banker's Lyn Flannery, the agent selling this 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath home. [...]
Work in progress: The Fairbanks at Cityfront Plaza
Mere months ago, The Fairbanks at Cityfront Plaza was just a hulking parking garage, an eyesore that echoed the failure of developer R.M. Chin & As [...]
Millennium Park Lofts was a Woolworth store
YoChicago reader Devyn reports that Millennium Park Lofts (formerly known as 20 N State) was built in 1928 and once housed a Woolworth store on the gr [...]
California Estates attractive, but no works of art
This spring we dished about the "luminiferous homes" headed for Humboldt Park and lamented the fact that none of the houses' renderings seemed to [...]