Mystery Chicago loft project is Broadway Village lofts
Thanks to Chas, who, in record time, correctly identified the mystery loft development depicted in the rendering above and in our earlier Chicago lo [...]
Clark View brings new construction to Ravenswood
We've recently spotted several new condo developments in the works on the North Side, including Clark View, a new-construction mid-rise located acro [...]
Search and rescue: Time Out picks 6 endangered Chicago buildings
This week's Time Out Chicago cover story, "Search & rescue," rounds up six Chicago buildings that the magazine says need to be saved from the wrecki [...]
Enterprise feels pinch of a slower market at Museum Park
Try as I might, Yo's truly just can't let go of South Loop Week. So yesterday I took a hike down to Museum Park to see how The Enterprise Companies' [...]
Mixed-use high-rise, loft conversion planned for South Loop
This week, The Chicago Tribune reported on developer Andrius Augunas' plans to build a 27-story high-rise with 178 condos at South Indiana Ave and 2 [...]
Identify mystery Chicago loft, win valuable prize, impress friends
You can't pull anything over on a YoChicago reader. In yesterday's roundup of Chicago loft condo developments, alert readers WoodlawnChuck and the U [...]
Roscoe Village leapfrogs West Roscoe Village
While all of us are busily mocking the "West Roscoe Village" usage, apartment rental services are busy extending the boundaries of Roscoe Village.
Ba [...]
Loft condo developments making a comeback in Chicago
In the late '90s, lofts so dominated Chicago's downtown residential real estate market, we almost got sick of them. Every day, it seemed, a develope [...]
Deal of the day: free electric scooter at Emerald
It's suddenly winter out there, so today we chose a perk that will remind you spring is only six months away...
Property Consultants Realty, market [...]
KB Home surveys buyers likes and dislikes before coming up with Creekside at Inverness Ridge
What do Chicagoans want from a home? Developer KB Home decided to get answers to that question and sent our surveys to people who had bought a home be [...]
We like to watch: inside Prairie Avenue mansion
We've seen all the new developments that will bring historic Prairie Avenue into the future, but here's a look inside one of the mansions from it [...]
No room for enviro meanies at Lexington Park Condos
I've never really understood why so many people p*** and moan about the city's system of blue recycling bags (corruption allegations aside). What's so [...]
Ravenswood apartment building goes condo
Koenig & Strey has started marketing the conversion of a courtyard building at 4519 N Paulina St in Ravenswood. The 38-unit building, going by the n [...]
New slime tactics from slimy rental services
Oh, wait. "Slimy rental service" is, in almost every case, redundant.
A landlord, posting in Craigslist's housing forum contends that rental services [...]
R+D659 brings contemporary architecture to empty nesters
If the West Loop's R+D659, located at 659 W. Randolph St., can teach us anything, it's that contemporary architecture isn't just for the young folks [...]
Feds indict Rezmar Development Group's Antoin Rezko
Federal prosecutors have indicted real estate developer Antoin "Tony" Rezko, of Rezmar Development Group, on charges that he took kickbacks from inv [...]
Bridgeport Village down to 11 single-family homes
This summer, Yo readers debated the merits of single-family home developments that resembled suburban subdivisions. The largest of those, Bridgeport [...]
New Chicago Web site helps find free or cheap drinks
Here at Yo, we often work up a mighty thirst arguing about Chicago real estate and neighborhoods, which is why we were oh-so-pleased to find that the [...]
Will CHA ever find funding to complete mixed-income housing plans?
The Chicago Housing Authority has completed only 29 percent of the mixed-income replacement housing it said it would build for public housing resident [...]
Wilton Schubert condo conversion on track in Lincoln Park
Jameson Realty Group has begun marketing a new Lincoln Park condo conversion from developer SBR Enterprises. Wilton Schubert, located at 2701 N Wilt [...]