Chicago rent barometer: apartments for under $2,000
Looking for a Chicago apartment for less than $2,000 a month? If you're willing to sign a two-year lease you might be tempted by the one-bedroom at 10 [...]
The Lynch-pin of Brininstool
We hear so much about the downtown modernist masterpieces of architectural team Brininstool + Lynch (R+D659, 550 St. Clair), that it was interesting t [...]
We like to watch: LaSalle Towers Condominiums
Yesterday we mentioned that the LaSalle Towers building at 1211 N LaSalle Dr was selling former apartment units "as is" as condos. Well, we grabbed o [...]
Design event of the spring: Great Chicago Spaces and Places
The city will sponsor Great Chicago Spaces and Places on the weekend of May 19-21, an exploration of the city's architecture and design that takes in [...]
Immigration rally draws massive turnout, mixed coverage online
Estimates are that anywhere from 400,000 to well over half a million marchers gathered in downtown Chicago yesterday to lobby for a kinder, gentler [...]
The Daily Joeff
Zach Hamity combs the aisles at the Armadillo's Pillow, a bookstore and gift shop at 6753 N Sheridan Rd. Armadillo's has been in the same East Roger [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, got the ugly building blues day
Too ugly to be a keeper, this blighter, at 3131 North Clark, was just sold to a Des Moines-based investment firm. Who lets this stuff happen?
If y [...]
Think River South is hot? Wait till you see NoNo-WeWe-LeLi
It's exciting to think of the new "River South" neighborhood we referred to in an earlier post. Sure, the new name would confuse people who might assu [...]
I live in the South Loop, er, River South
They're at it again, messing with the South Loop. Developers may have failed in their all-out effort to brand the neighborhood as SoLo in the 1990s, b [...]
Moving in Chicago: one renter's 38-hour countdown
Most Fridays, I leave work with a nice bounce in my step, excited to have two days entirely to myself (and the arm-length list of errands I've neglect [...]
Separated at birth: Parc Chestnut detail better than rendering
It's one of those rare cases in which the building might look better than the rendering. This drawing for Lennar Corporation's Parc Chestnut condo [...]
Former LaSalle Towers Apartments sold as condos
Don't let Richard Haas' mural, an homage to the Chicago School, fool you: the real entrance to this 1920s Old Town high-rise is hidden meekly under a [...]
Diann Burns suing Metzler / Hull over house construction
WBBM-Channel 2 news anchor Diann Burns is suing Metzler / Hull Development, a well known builder of high-end custom homes, for allegedly doing substan [...]
Chicago needs to reclaim Navy Pier from the Canadians
It seems strange that a master plan for redeveloping Navy Pier should be entrusted to a Toronto-based consultant. We don't mean to diss Forrec Ltd. bu [...]
Tales from the rental front: sublet sob story
When Jen's girlfriend graduated college, the couple wasn't sure how long they wanted to stay in Chicago or what their next step would be. Rather than [...]
Monday, Monday
It's Monday, Monday, manic or otherwise. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Streeterville: Warhol, Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein
Uptown: Wilson Yard a [...]
The daily Joeff
Division Street Baths, 1916 W Division St (February 2004). Photo by Joeff Davis
More Wicker Park photos available in our Wicker Park photo gallery. [...]
The Daily Joeff
South Loop construction(October 2001). Photo by Joeff Davis. More South Loop photos available in our South Loop photo gallery. [...]
All aboard for new season of the Architecture River Cruise
Nothing says spring like getting back out on the water. This Saturday the Chicago Architecture Foundation launches a new season of its Architecture Ri [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for Uptown, Near North and Logan Square (samples below).
The Aragon Ba [...]