If Rapunzel lived in Chicago she'd live in Washington Park
Now there's a balcony that a girl could let her hair down from. We've been cruising around the Washington Park neighborhood, which is in the early sta [...]
Keeping an open mind about opening day, Wrigley renovations
It's the day before opening day here in Wrigleyville, and the YoChicago staff is all aflutter. The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the hot [...]
Des Plaines? You couldn't pay me to live there. Literally.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Des Plaines City Council will reconsider a rule requiring department heads to live in the northern suburb. Appare [...]
Rental barometer: Chicago for $1,300 or less
Let's start at $1,300 and work our way down the apartment ladder. A 725-square-foot one-bedroom at 1100 N. Dearborn St. in the Gold Coast is going f [...]
Appreciating novelty in Chicago's new construction
You would have to be blind or unconscious not to notice the infestation of red brick behemoths wherever gentrification has steamrolled in. Let's just [...]
Lincoln Park's Mildred Court needs a paint job
We've already told you about Lincoln Park's new stodgily-named Mildred Court condominiums, where one-bedroom units start in the $190s. With the rehab [...]
Faces of which Chicago 'hood (II) ?
OK, you liked the last one, so I thought I'd try another. In which neighborhood did Yo's Joeff find this gentleman and his Hummer?
Also, I want to [...]
The daily Joeff
Members of the Chicago Childrens Choir. Photo by Joeff Davis
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LA has us whipped on neighborhood names
Whipped, I tell you.
Chicago has nearly 300 neighborhoods (you'll soon see them all in Yo's neighborhood guide), but only 77 are official. LA racks [...]
Tales from the rental front: rat invasions
Disgusting wormy tails, large hairy bodies, red eyes visible from down the alley. It's a nearly universal opinion, held by all but a sick and twiste [...]
Signs of the times on Chicago streets
In the pantheon of urban blight, you've got to rank bad store signage at or near the top of the list. Back-lit plastic signs are the scourge of the [...]
Trump praises his penthouse, knocks Fordham Spire
Yesterday we reported that The Donald was keeping the $28 million penthouse at Trump International Hotel & Tower for his Chicago pad. The Chicago Sun- [...]
Slums in the cornfields
Maybe it's due to growing up in New Jersey, but my mind equates the absence of trees with a slum.
I'm just back from the Joliet / Plainfield area - t [...]
Park Tower Condos: big fish in a kiddie pool
The American Institute of Architects "AIA Guide to Chicago" says that Park Tower Condominiums' "beautifully detailed and proportioned curtain wall sta [...]
Renzo Piano's designs on The Art Institute of Chicago
Here's a rendering of Renzo Piano's design for the $220 million Modern Wing of The Art Institute of Chicago, courtesy of the Art Institute.
This is a [...]
Lakeshore East's Aqua is a long drink of water
Meet Aqua, which at 82-stories, will be the tallest high-rise at the Lakeshore East development, that sits on land south of Wacker Drive and west of L [...]
Tempest in a South Loop teacup: the Burnham Pointe protest
Out for a stroll in the South Loop on Sunday afternoon, Yo stumbled across a rousing protest by a mighty throng of concerned citizens. Ok, so there we [...]
