Chicago's best new homes
Chicagoans have always treated architecture as a spectator sport, but for decades frustrated fans have watched as the players repeatedly dropped the [...]
Easy Street-erville
Boom in cutting-edge towers, new retail put neighborhood on map
It's business as usual on a recent Tuesday at the Dominick's Finer Foods on Grand Av [...]
Life, Libertyville and the pursuit of housing
"Country" town now a booming 'burb where new homes pass $1 million
Years ago, before everyone had 150 channels to flip through, a television commer [...]
Buyers should look for the construction features that wow home inspectors
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Over the years, I've talked at great length about the problems that arise when developers cut corners or settle for sloppy workmanship. This month [...]
Homeowners might see property taxes skyrocket in 2006 as Springfield battle brews
A real estate donnybrook is shaping up in Cook County in 2006, with homeowners pitted against the owners of big apartment buildings, office towers a [...]
Downtown condo development continued at record-breaking pace in first quarter
Talk of a housing bubble lingers, resales soften, and other major real estate markets slow, but in Chicago, sales of new downtown condos continue to [...]
Jazz on the Boulevard sings affordable song in Near South
The Thrush Companies named its new homes at Jazz on the Boulevard for the musicians who put the Near South Side on the map, and like those legends o [...]
At your service
Astoria Tower touts hotel amenities in new condo high-rise
Thumb your way through high-rise condominium ads and you're sure to find the usual buzz [...]
Prize-winning array of boxes
Chicago Apartment Therapy reports (with photos) on what passes for a prize-winning rooftop garden. Sigh. [...]
Do-it-yourselfers take note: Wicker Park condos sold "as is"
Afraid developers won't do a thorough job rehabbing your new condo? Home improvement junkies can do their own quality control in Wicker Park. Prime Pr [...]
You can't take the farm out of the city
There's a sad irony in seeing farmers whose land is increasingly being bought up and replaced with Walgreen's, Sprint stores, Starbucks and housing su [...]
New West Loop loft condo conversion has duplex units with 23-foot ceilings
Ah, this is how lofts used to be, before everything and its brother started calling itself a loft: ceiling heights up to 23 feet, exposed timber beam [...]
Cabrini-Green on NBC5 tonight, but real story goes unreported
Tonight's obligatory viewing on the tube: NBC5 is doing a segment on Cabrini-Green called Life on the Green, at 10 p.m. It will explore life in public [...]
A new record for Libertyville condos?
North suburban Libertyville is known more for detached single-families than for condos, but developer Joe Tremont is hoping to hit a new high with his [...]
City must act on deadly driving after death of little Maya Hirsch
When my husband rode up to me on his bicycle with an ashen face and close to tears on Saturday afternoon I knew that something was wrong. He'd just se [...]
Update: Evanston condo owner's auction a success
Last week we told you about Northwestern University professor Eli Finkel's plans to sell his Evanston condo to the highest bidder after only a weekend [...]
Suffer the cow but not the cocoa in the West Loop
Amid all the fuss about the EPA forcing Blommer to implement pollution abatement measures that will curtail the sweet whiff of cocoa in the West Loop, [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, even though we tried to forget. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Uptown: And to think that I saw it on Addison Street
Irving Pa [...]
Millennium Park "Bean" encounter
Walking through Millennium Park on Saturday I concluded that Cloud Gate, or "the Bean," as it's known colloquially--a fact we passed on to some Polish [...]
Chicago Plan Commission approves 64-unit project in Burnside area
The Chicago Plan Commission last week approved a proposal by 89th & State, LLC for 64 residential units in a mix of 24 single-family homes and 40 town [...]