Downtown housing volume rose 67% in 15 years
Some numbers from a new housing report just caught our collective eye. In 1990, downtown Chicago had about 48,000 housing units, according to housing [...]
CTA Tattler chronicles urban life on the el
While we're on the subject of the Chicago Transit Authority and scatalogical references (see below post), the often entertaining CTA Tattler seems to [...]
CTA's "countown to a new brown" elicits groans
And the award for worst tagline for a major public works project goes to the Chicago Transit Authority for "countdown to a new brown." The scatalogica [...]
Two 12-story condo towers coming to West Loop
Twelve stories might not seem so tall given the vertical building boom underway downtown, but for the West Loop, it's nose-bleed development. Emeral [...]
The daily Joeff
Photo by Joeff Davis
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Humboldt Park photo gallery. [...]
Monday, Monday
Monday, Monday. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Streeterville: The Captain certainly started something
South Loop: Yo Chicago South Loop photo gall [...]
Irish ways
Over the weekend at R.J. Grunts (2056 N. Lincoln Park West, 773-929-5363), the Lincoln Park restaurant that started it all for the Lettuce Entertain Y [...]
The other information superhighway
If you're searching for a new home but your Internet connection's down, boot up the computers in your car and hop on to the original information sup [...]
Bull as principal and principle
zRent bills itself as "Chicago's premier apartment locator." Whatever.
The company needs some help in matching photos with ads: it's using the same p [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
Explore ancient Africa without ever leaving Chicago at the newly-opened Nubian Gallery at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute.
It's open f [...]
From zombie to real estate agent
Some folks think that going from zombie to real estate agent is not progressing in the right direction.
We just stumbled across Jay Stover's high-con [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's neighborhood photo galleries for the West Loop, Lake View and Lincoln Park (samples below).
West L [...]
Is building a district too optimistic a view of the housing market?
We mentioned in an earlier post the giant mixed-use project planned for River North, but that development's a shrimp compared to some of what's in t [...]
Best practices, worst results
According to a recent report (PDF file) from Catalyst Chicago, a group that tracks school results, the largest decline in Prairie State reading, math [...]
Victor Hotel is a lounge
Restaurateur Jerry Kleiner's newest venture is a lounge called Victor Hotel, a place so named because of a sign Kleiner had, a sign he loves, that r [...]
Friday, Friday, is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why can't a cow have kittens? Tell me why oh why?
If you read rental service ads on Craigslist, it's easy to find lie after lie after lie.
Yo search [...]
Giant mixed-use development planned for River North
Remember when River North brought to mind adult bookstores, seedy bars and endless parking lots? Hard to believe, friends, but it wasn't so long ago. [...]
Jimmy's cocktail book
Heaven on Seven chef/owner Jimmy Bannos, he of the famous red headband, kicked out a romping stomping pre-Mardi Gras party last night at his original [...]