New-construction condos coming to Lincoln Square
Koenig & Strey has begun marketing a new-construction development called Lincoln Square Flats, located at 2208 W Lawrence Ave. The 24-unit building [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Wilmette: Five faves of two Wilmette residents
Woodlawn: Meeting about the [...]
Developers with a colorful past
Real estate developers come from a variety of backgrounds.
Take David Sheehan and Paul DiCaro, developers of a 60-unit Bridgeport condo, for example. [...]
Trump's ego spills over onto sidewalk
Today, the Chicago Tribune raised a stink about a little harmless kiosk outside the Wrigley Building. Okay, so it's 10 feet tall and 4.5 feet wide. [...]
Lake View condos make small improvements on boxy formula
A woebegotten Yo reader recently admonished the big brick boxes built in Chicago's less architecturally adventurous neighborhoods. While it's not e [...]
Another Brininstool + Lynch high-rise set for South Loop
Mies had Streeterville, and it looks like Brininstool + Lynch has the South Loop. Piedmont Group, who developed the West Loop's Lofthaus with archit [...]
New Mag Mile condos run through Bronzeville
Atproperties is plugging new-construction condos and townhomes in Bronzeville. The decidedly retro Mag Mile South, located at 4051 S Michigan Ave, i [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us — Randolph Market
The Randolph Market neighborhood, a part of Chicago's West Loop, runs along Randolph St (150 N), from Desplaines St (630 W) west to Ogden Ave, in ZI [...]
A hyperactive look at Hyde Park
If you've got 5 minutes and 9 seconds to spare, turn up your sound and click below for a tour of some lesser-known Hyde Park Assets at YouTube.
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We like to watch: Streeterville condo leaves us stunned
Nestled on the 43rd floor of the Streeterville high-rise at 161 E Chicago Ave is one of the funkiest resale condos we've come across recently. Okay, [...]
Work in progress: 3158 N Seminary Ave
It looks like most of the construction on The Macon Group's 3158 N Seminary Ave, marketed by Sudler Sotheby's, is finished, and we noticed the four [...]
Filmmakers take on Chicago neighborhoods
You can check out Lincoln Park's monkeys, Wicker Park's hipsters and Wrigleyville's beer-swillers in their natural habitat from the comfort of your o [...]
Behold! The $80,000 condo!
...And believe it or not, the fixer-uppering has already been done. The Habitat Company is marketing the 32-unit condo conversion Magnolia Court, lo [...]
The Chicago NIMBY – why not in my backyard?
What defines a NIMBY? Is being a NIMBY such a bad thing? Is the accusation of NIMBYism a way to stifle debate on things by telling someone that self-i [...]
Chicago rent barometer: South Loop for around $1,500
We've been talking an awful lot about the South Loop lately, so we thought we'd check out how much it costs to rent out a piece of Chicago's gangly [...]
New condo building planned for Portage Park
The Helen Oliveri Team is marketing a new-construction condo development from O'Malley Construction in Portage Park. Central Square, located at 3234 [...]
Hyde Park photo pool, meetup at Flickr
To date, nineteen people have joined YoChicago's Hyde Park photo pool at Flickr and contributed some great photos of Hyde Park and the University of C [...]
Downer Place brings lofts to downtown Aurora
The words "lofts" and "suburbs" don't often appear in the same sentence, but buyers who want the hip urban loft without the steep urban price are lo [...]
Is new construction cooling or just spreading?
That's a question to wonder about as you're anxiously tracking the drumbeat of stories on whether the new home market in Chicago is cooling off.
Duri [...]
New-construction condos coming to Irving Park
Atproperties has announced a new-construction condo project in the Irving Park neighborhood. The Terrace, located at 3917 N Kedzie Ave, will have 24 [...]