A neighborhood bar in the Loop
One good reason to take the Loop seriously as a neighborhood: You can drink, Prohibition-style, at Cardozo's Pub, a little-known bar in the basement o [...]
The pedway makes life easier for the Loop's new residents
Life is pretty sweet for people living at the new downtown highrise The Heritage at Millennium Park. First of all they have a neighborhood full of gre [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, the ugly building blues day
It's not the ugliest building we've seen lately, and it's only truly ugly in context, but it does have the virtue of being close at hand (right ar [...]
The daily Joeff
And here's what happened when some newlyweds surfaced in April, 2003.
Photo by Joeff Davis. [...]
A wedding in the Chicago pedway
We knew the pedway had a certain romance to it, but we didn't realize it was home to the city's Marriage Court. For 22 years, couples have been saying [...]
A go around the Yo
Monday, Monday. Let's take a go around the Yo.
Edgewater: Are we there yet?
Irving Park: The Balkanization of Irving Park?
Wilmette 60091: Snow Whi [...]
Rediscovering the Chicago pedway
What's three miles long, eight feet wide and snakes its way past 50 different buildings? Damn it. The headline gave it away.
How come we never hear a [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in Yo Chicago's Lincoln Park photo gallery. [...]
A death sentence for taggers?
Uh, you might want to move your spray paint to your trunk, and put a newspaper over it, before you park your car in West Walker, a part of the city th [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's galleries for Wicker Park, Bronzeville and Ravenswood (samples below).
Wicker Park
Bronzeville [...]
Where crime is almost fun
If you haven't been to ChicagoCrime.org, go there now and check out your street and neighborhood.
This innovative site plots recent crimes in Chicago [...]
Developers prepare to pitch South Shore to Chicago homebuyers
South Shore - do you know it yet? We're told that a bunch of developers are getting together to hire a PR person to introduce Chicago homebuyers to th [...]
Electric cars, convenient retail — the Loop of the future
Browsing around the city's Department of Planning and Development Web site this week, we came across a document detailing Mayor Daley's plans for tran [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in YoChicago's West Loop photo gallery.
Photo by Joeff Davis [...]
More Chicago condo deals…
Back on the topic of homes for under $200,000 (by that we mean new-construction and rehabs), we found a couple more today.
In Streeterville, the form [...]
Super Bowl (of pasta) Without the Football
Let's say you're like me and couldn't give a rat's claw about the Super Bowl, even if it is Super Bowl XL, the coolest Roman numeral possible for the [...]
Chicago for under $200,000
Depressing news for first-home buyers: it's getting harder and harder to find a condo under $200,000 in Chicago and it's only going to get worse, with [...]
The daily Joeff
See dozens more in YoChicago's Edgewater photo gallery.
Photo by Joeff Davis [...]
A Packer invades Soldier Field
Mike Wier is one brave developer. Wier, who sits on the board of the Green Bay Packers football team, is heading up the new Casablanca Lofts project a [...]