Town & Country's DesignerEXPRESS: houses you can touch
It's a gimicky new name for an old phenomenon, but Town & Country Homes is selling half a dozen completed houses with finishes preselected at its 20 [...]
Life on Easy Street-erville
Centrum Properties opened the ground-floor retail component of The Fairbanks at CityFront Plaza, 240 E Illinois St, a couple of months ago, and sudden [...]
Sleeping in U-haul a solid option for renters switching Chicago apartments
"I guess I don't really understand," I said to my current landlord. "I'm supposed to be out of this apartment by midnight on April 30 but not move int [...]
Yet another sign of the times on Chicago streets
Ald. Thomas Allen (38th) has put aside a proposal to bestow a stretch of West Monroe Street with the honorific name "Chairman Fred Hampton Way." We wo [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, got the ugly building blues day
Pushing the envelope of ugly at 2040 West North Avenue.
If you've got the ugly building blues, send us an e-mail with a photo. [...]
Horizon Realty Group threatens to arrest me
This morning I visited 525 W. Oakdale, Chicago, the building where my kids' mom died last week, to check for mail and to check the Medical Examiner's [...]
Happy birthday, Alinea restaurant
The Chicago home of the international molecular gastronomy movement, Alinea restaurant (1723 N. Halsted St., 312-867-0110) in Lincoln Park, celebrates [...]
The Inferior at LaSalle
Last week we gave you an update on the stylish 156 W Superior development in River North. Unfortunately its neighbor, JFJ Development Company's The Su [...]
Designing your week: you got your Mies in my peanut butter!
From the magnificence of Caldwell to the minimalism of Mies (say that fives times fast), it's a big week in Chicago architecture. YoChicago's architec [...]
How much is too much development in Streeterville – and for who?
We knew that Streeterville was going high-rise crazy, but we're still a little gobsmacked at the sheer number of condos up for grabs. In 2005, some 1, [...]
Hyde Park considers future of Harper Court
The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference will hold a workshop from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow night, April 25 at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 548 [...]
Homebuyers at The Residences at 900 can shop 'til they drop
How would you like Bloomingdale's, Gucci, Coach, Montblanc, the Four Seasons and Equinox Fitness for neighbors? Nine hundred North Michigan Avenue, th [...]
We like to watch: the ultimate coach house
Luxurious accommodation and amenities might not come to mind when you think of coach houses, those dowdy satellite residences eclipsed in the shadows [...]
New homes slated for vacant lots in North Kenwood-Oakland
We despair at the sight of all the vacant lots on the South Side and were pleased to hear recently that 14 vacant properties in the North Kenwood-Oakl [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
The time is right for an action-packed model railroading experience, with as many as 10 trains taking the track simultaneously.
Head over to the Ga [...]
Partners in Charity promises to stop misleading sellers
West Dundee-based Partners in Charity (PIC) and its president, Charles Konkus, recently consented to a civil injunction in a suit brought by the Unite [...]
How do you evict a no-good roommate?
A few folks on craigslist have been debating the best way to evict freeloading roommates in forums here and here. One person thinks his booted roommat [...]