Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Streeterville: Meet some neighborhood treasures
West Loop: The only clothing store in the West Loop [...]
Bienvenidos a Pilsen
Watch a tour of Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood at Google Video. [...]
The daily Joeff
Photo by Joeff Davis
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Ravenswood photo gallery. [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
And where else would ye be takin' the green-clad lads and lassies today than to the 28th Annual South Side Irish Saint Patrick's Day Parade? They're [...]
Arlington Heights broker tour highlights
What's a broker tour? It's agent-to-agent marketing: weekday open houses usually open only to real estate agents, and showcasing only the newest listi [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for Jefferson Park, Edgewater and South Chicago (samples below).
Jeff [...]
Glitz, glamor, gain — the Chicago Realtor awards from table 84
We arrived unfashionably early to the awards ceremony and had plenty of time to graze cheese cubes and six-dollar beers before filtering into the ma [...]
We're not making this up. Really. We're not.
We quote from the Wikipedia entry on Chicago's Mount Greenwood neighborhood:
Mt. Greenwood was a prosperous community until conquered by Daniel Soso [...]
The hot topic in Roscoe Village
Roscoe Village Neighbors runs one of the city's more informative and active Web sites.
We just visited their Message Board to see what's on the minds [...]
So much real estate, so few billionaires
The new Forbes billionaires' list is available, and Chicago real estate has only a few representatives: Sam Zell, Matthew Bucksbaum (who?) & family, a [...]
The easy – or sleazy – way to buy a loft
We've noticed a trend lately for real estate agents to use their Web sites to imply that they have listings in buildings when, in fact, they don't. Th [...]
New magazine covers Chicago real estate in Polish
No city other than Warsaw has more Polish residents than Chicago, and while many are renters, many others are buying and selling homes. Add to this th [...]
Lavicka selling Celestial House in the Gap
We headed over to the Gap, on the Near South Side, last week to help developer, activist and raconteur Bill Lavicka celebrate his birthday and the com [...]
Friday, Friday is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why don't the geese fly eastward? Tell me why oh why?
Everyone knows that the best way to sell real estate is with a site sign. And every day you pas [...]
Are you part of the big sort?
Or is it a notion that puts you out of sorts?
What's the big sort, you ask? Let economist Richard Florida tell you about it:
Individuals are sorting [...]
Des Plaines – what's with the in-laws?
My son's looking to buy a house in Des Plaines, and it seems that half the places he's seeing have an "in-law unit" or a basement with a separate entr [...]
Del Toro is good, no bull
I ate at Del Toro in Wicker Park the other night, and it is very good, friends. Whether you like anchovies or not you should try the anchovy bruschett [...]
A 5-star book and high-rise
The 2005 edition of Chicago Architecture and Design is getting 5-star reviews from Amazon readers. If you attended last week's groundbreaking for 600 [...]