Apartment Therapy for Chicago
The Web's most stylish interior design site, Apartment Therapy, just launched its Chicago version.
Chicagoans no longer have to go to New York and Lo [...]
The Loop is the hottest market in the U.S. – sorry Gold Coast
So the day has finally come when it's a good thing to live in the Loop and a not-as-good-thing to live on the Gold Coast. Why? Well according to Forbe [...]
860 N. Lake Shore: authentic Mies for $375,000
Last week we posted on the Park Tower Condos building, one of the many Mies imitators loitering around Chicago. Don't get us wrong; there's absolutely [...]
Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Bucktown: Bucktown's spring collection of mutated Stepford Wives
Uptown: Wrigley field - the starti [...]
Demolition should have been starting point for Streeterville tower
Is this the ugliest garage you've ever seen? Sadly, it probably isn't, since an ugly garage base seems to have been a prerequisite for most resident [...]
The architectural unicorns: revisionists build homes in "old" styles that never existed
One of life's great injustices is the failure of too many people with too much money to exercise either good judgment or imagination or both when th [...]
Designing your week: IIT prof presents "The Archeworks Papers"
YoChicago's architecture journal, City spaces, highlights a couple of events exploring urban architecture and development:
Illinois Institute of Tech [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
A sunny day's in the forecast, so head out to explore one of the Cook County Forest Preserve's little-known nature centers.
Yo recommends the Hal T [...]
The tooth fairy will pay your closing costs
We keep receiving comments from posters who say they are satisfied customers of Lenox Financial Mortgage, so we'll revisit the issue of no-closing-cos [...]
Ahoy landlubbers! It's smooth sailing at Lakeshore East
This would be quite nice to come home to, wouldn't it? It's one of two matching entryway monuments at the Lakeshore East development of high-rises on [...]
If Dante ran a Chicago apartment service…
YoChicagoan Joel Hoglund consulted an apartment finder service when he and a friend were in search of a two-bedroom for less than $1,000. They hoped t [...]
Separated at birth: GVP house in Lincoln Park is clearly recognizable
We're always skeptical about artist's renderings, but we think GVP Development lived up to its for this new single-family home at 2726 N Mildred Ave [...]
Down the garden path: Lock windows or come home to a break-in
After reading an earlier item about first-floor / garden apartment living, Cynthia M. shared some advice with us: "I have lived mostly in first-floor [...]
"Movin' Out" is movin back to Chicago's Auditorium Theatre
"Movin' Out," the musical based on Billy Joel's songs and choreographed by Twyla Tharp, returns to Chicago, where its pre-Broadway run began. The show [...]
Is Edgewater's Statesman removed from lives of ordinary citizens?
Across the street from the Edgewater Beach Apartments stands --or floats -- The Statesman, at 5601 North Sheridan Road. If Chicago is the city in a g [...]
Lagrange looks forward with the leaning towers of Prairie
It does our heart good to see the name of Lucien Lagrange, architect to Chicago's wealthy (think The Park Tower, 840 N. Lake Shore Drive, The Elysian, [...]
Weird front porches in Washington Park
I like traditional walk-ups, but these mid-air front doors sticking off to one side of a building just look wrong. Maybe it's because, this being Wash [...]
First-floor rentals can be worse than the garden apartment
We've railed on the problems that can plague garden apartments, but Beth and Frank tell us they're more nervous about security as they move from a gar [...]