Wicker Park week: nautical condos, Victorian rehabs and more
Wicker Park week continues at Yo...Read about a condo fit for a sea captain on North Avenue.
Alert reader J.J. identifies the mystery residential / r [...]
Pappageorge names The Contemporaine a personal fave
Aaaw, we get all warm and fuzzy when we hear architects saying nice things about each other. It just makes Chicago a more beautiful place. We asked Ge [...]
Perk patrol: Deer Point Homes gives free ceramic in Woodstock houses
If you can gauge the temperature of the housing market by the level of giveaways, maybe we're still pretty far from frigid. The latest promotion fro [...]
Blue mansard roof caps Chaville condos in Peterson Park
The Chaville, located at 5978 N Lincoln Ave in Peterson Park, will likely prove a great landmark for people giving directions for years to come. " [...]
Peterson Park condo development waiting for second phase
Two newish condo buildings sit up the street from Lincoln Crossing, the 35-unit development we told you about yesterday, and across from a massive, [...]
What's landlord's responsibility in Rogers Park fire?
Chicago building inspectors said some smoke detectors worked in the apartment building at 7706 N Marshfield Ave, the Rogers Park complex where a fire [...]
Chicago's golden age of architecture – will it last?
Is Chicago in a golden age of architecture? It's obvious that the hot housing market has inspired a level of competition that has improved the overal [...]
Work in progress: The Courts at Lincoln Square
Construction is underway on The Courts at Lincoln Square, a 49-unit condo building at 4950 N Western Ave. Unlike some of the other new-construction [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us — Kennedy Park
Some of us pine for a neighborhood that's small enough to feel like a neighborhood, where a Cubs fan is something someone's cousin is rumored to be, [...]
Bury Joe or go to Yo
The Straight Dope Science Advisory Board says it's so. If you're selling a home, do a Joe and reap the dough.
There's a tradition, dating to the si [...]
Wicker Park week: College lofts, mystery projects, the coming Coyote
Wicker Park week continues at YoChicago...
College Lofts is one of the few new loft developments in a neighborhood where loft projects once dominat [...]
Brininstool dishes on architecture, buildings he likes
Yo's truly has talked with prominent Chicago architects about various subjects over the last week or so and today we spoke with David Brininstool of B [...]
Lincoln Crossing condo building nearing completion in Budlong Woods
Lettvin Development Company's new Lincoln Crossing is a tremendous presence at the intersection of Lincoln and Bryn Mawr avenues in Budlong Woods. T [...]
Evanston's Stained Glass features wine and foie gras
The Stained Glass (1735 Benson Ave., 847-864-8600), an Evanston restaurant that would fit right in if it were in River North or Lincoln Park, prides i [...]
Ranalli's reopens, adds a name
The Old Town standby Ranalli's (1925 N. Lincoln Ave., 312-642-1300) is open for business again after a months-long shut-down for remodeling--and perha [...]
Condo construction booming in Budlong Woods
A walk down the 2400 block of West Foster Ave turns up a treasure trove of condo development. Lincoln Center starts off the block on the west; next [...]
16th Ward Alderman's relationship with real estate consultant questioned
California investment company Blythe Holdings, Inc. wanted to buy 100 city lots on which to build housing in Chicago's 16th Ward, and used the service [...]
Move over Virgil – city audio tour has hip-hop poet for guide
Personally, we'd rather tour Chicago barefoot in February than be led through the city to the vocal stylings of a hip-hop poet, but according to a s [...]
Let's take a go around the Yo
Wicker Park: Wicker Park's Mystery Machine station wagon
Woodlawn: Am I just saying this because I'm a dog owner?
Irving Park: The Irving Park beg [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us – Mayfair
Enough with Wicker Park and "adore me more" already — does the narcissism of the young and the would-be trendy know no bounds?
Beginning toda [...]