The Chicago River martini
Maybe Dine, a new West Loop restaurant at 733 W Madison St, should change the name of this concoction, not only because it's not really appetizing to [...]
Where you Goin?
And another thing about Suzanne Goin (which is pronounced like "goin' to California"). If you ever go to California, you should eat at her restaurants [...]
Bye-bye, dives
During dinner last night at the West Loop's Blackbird restaurant, a dinner cooked by visiting chef Suzanne Goin, who owns A.O.C. and Lucques in Los An [...]
Millennium Park area gets another condo highrise
Maybe the city needs to designate Millennium Park an actual neighborhood rather than a mere green space, judging by the seismic boom in residential de [...]
Helmut Jahn touts 600 North Fairbanks condominium tower
Say what you want about Helmut Jahn, the man has presence. He held court the other night before a crowd of would-be clients for Urban R2 Development [...]
Photographer Joeff Davis' exhibition opens tonight
For a unique and insightful perspective on some of the leading political figures of our time get along to New Homes Magazine photographer Joeff Davis' [...]
The Coast is Magnificent
File this one under, "From Pilsen to the Magnificent Mile." Walkabout Theater opens its production of The Coast of Chicago, a stage adaptation of Stua [...]
Chicago lofts – survival of the hottest
We knew that first-home buyers made up a large proportion of the loft market, but after checking out dozens of ads on Web sites for loft developments [...]
Chicago art gallery gets some loft units upstairs
How would you like to come home to this guy every night (see right)? He's the inspiration for a new loft condo/art gallery project in the West Loop.
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Geaux Bears!
On Sunday the Bears begin their march toward the Super Bowl, a game they haven't reached in 20 years. Incidentally, that was Super Bowl XX--those NFL [...]
Veteran Chicago homebuyers ready to retire
Gino and Germana Di Nallo admit they are "pickier than most people." The Italian couple must be the leading authorities on Chicago's condo highrises, [...]
Live/work lofts making a comeback in Chicago
Back in the day, the loft evolved as a housing style for struggling young artists who needed an affordable space that doubled as a studio and a home. [...]
The changing face of North Sheffield Avenue
The stretch of North Sheffield Avenue between Belmont and Wellington is transforming before our eyes. Within the next couple of years there will be 12 [...]
Hey, how about your own gap?
Minding the Gap, An Assessment of Racial Disparity In Metropolitan Chicago (PDF file) is a 2003 study from the Jane Addams Hull House Association.
Th [...]
Cabrini-Green tower falling near N. Town Village
One of the biggest complaints among residents of North Town Village, probably the best known mixed-income project in the redevelopment of the Chicago [...]
Chicago lofts get softer and keep selling
Chicago developers like to say that they can judge a loft development's potential for success by how horrified the buyer's parents are when they see i [...]
A segregated restroom?
One has to wonder whether use of this portable facility is limited to the Irish construction workers who build much of Lake View's new housing. [...]
The party isn't over for the Chicago loft market
In the trendiest lofts of the city's hippest neighborhoods it's apparently no longer cool enough to throw parties on a rooftop deck or a mere balcony. [...]
Slice of Chicago history dies with Berghoff
As YoChicago's Michael Austin pointed out in his Dec. 28 post, the legendary Berghoff Restaurant, 17 W Adams St, will close its doors on Feb. 28. It's [...]
Old college jocks never die, they buy a loft in Chicago
Student dorm digs were never this cool. The former Saint Stanislaus College, just down from the Division el stop, is currently being converted into Th [...]