Dinner with Frida in Wicker Park
Adobo Grill in Wicker Park (2005 W. Division St., 773-252-9990) is hosting dinner and a showing of the movie Frida manana at 5 p.m. That's tomorrow fo [...]
Save the date for Cloud Gate
It's official -- the ribbon-cutting dedication ceremony for Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park is set for 11 a.m. on Monday, May 1 [...]
The daily Joeff
A vendor on Division Street makes up elotes, a Latin treat that consists of ears of corn slathered in cheese, mayonnaise, butter and cayenne pepper [...]
The Waltons are in for a rude shock at Palatine Commons
Hurry, John-boy! We've got to save the farm from going condo! Although this looks a tad Little House on the Prairie, or like something The Waltons wou [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for the Loop, Albany Park and South Chicago (samples below).
"The Clou [...]
Zillow does home values by ZIP code
If you want a quick and easy way to compare median home values in Chicagoland's various ZIP codes, just go to Zillow and punch in a ZIP code without a [...]
Legends South brings hope, protest
At yesterday's ground-breaking ceremony for Hansberry Square at Legends South, Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) spoke about the need to develop more than [...]
The economics of recycling in action
Here's a glimpse at an obscure aspect of the teardown / rehab / new construction universe: recycling bricks from demolition sites for resale.
You'v [...]
Marshall Field's: a tour by any other name won't sound as sweet
Now may be a good time to sign up for the Marshall Field's on State Street walking tour led by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, as there are only [...]
Thirty year old news
We've noticed a trend of real estate agent Web sites apparently claiming credit for the sales effort on projects with which they had little or no conn [...]
Is Gang's Aqua condo tower the start of a 3rd Chicago School?
Someone should give Lynn Becker , the architecture critic, who has his own Web site and writes for the Reader and other print publications, a civic aw [...]
Fortune study: Chicago housing in "danger zone"
The latest bubble story comes from Fortune magazine, which ranks 19 major markets as "dead zones," "danger zones" and "safe havens." If you haven't al [...]
The townhouse is an endangered species in Chicago
Has anyone else noticed that it's hard to find good townhouse developments in Chicago these days? Up until about 2002, developers were churning out ab [...]
The daily Joeff
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State St (October 2003). Photo by Joeff Davis
More South Loop photos available in our South Loop photo gallery.
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Trump guests like to watch
Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York lists a telescope as one of its in-room amenities.
Exquisite Corpse explains the Donald's purpose for [...]
Essential construction equipment
The Cat? The crane? The port-a-potty? The dumpster? The cement mixer? Nope.
The only essential piece of construction equipment in this photo is the [...]
Bronzeville's Hansberry Square breaks new ground
This morning, Yo attended the ground-breaking ceremony for Hansberry Square, a 238-unit phase of Legends South, Bronzeville's massive new mixed-incom [...]
Neighborhood name game: Crain's 1, RedEye 0
You have to hand it to RedEye. The Trib's zombie rag today republished a rewritten version of the neighborhood name game story that Crain's published [...]
Are falcons forcing displacement in Uptown, or are critics pigeons in their own right?
Did we see the metaphorical implications of our recent Uptown pigeon-eating falcons post? Of course, we did, 'cause friends, everything in Uptown's [...]
The highs and lows of renting in Chinatown
When Tina first moved from Hyde Park to Chinatown to live with her sister and save money on rent, she had nothing but positive things to say about the [...]