Erik's excursions: Uptown's Montrose Park
In our final installment of my Uptown walking tour, I head east on Montrose Avenue to Montrose Park. In stark contrast to the bustling and motoring [...]
Erik's excursions: Uptown, pt. 4
The beat goes on as I travel south down Sheridan Road, then over to Uptown's new development Wilson Yard on the corner of Broadway Street and Montro [...]
Erik's excursions: Walking Uptown, Part 3
Ethiopian food, Red Line murals, the Aragon Ballroom, and the mosaic facade of Alternatives Youth and Family Center are featured in this installment [...]
Erik's excursions: more Uptown
In the second video of the series, we don't go beyond what is immediately available at the corner of Broadway and Lawrence Avenues. We see the Green [...]
Erik's excursions: strolling around Uptown
I recently conducted a walking tour of Uptown on the Far North Side to get a sense of its "walkability." At WalkScore.com, Uptown gets a rating of 9 [...]
Going beyond green: More features and finishes at 4847 North Ashland's homes
In our last video about Sergio & Banks' new green condos at 4847 North Ashland, agent Melissa Govedarica shows me a few more of the development's pe [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us: Bowmanville
According to the Encyclopedia of Chicago, the founder of the Bowmanville subdivision in Lincoln Square skipped town after selling customers land he di [...]
More green features at 4847 North Ashland
In our second video at this green development in Ravenswood, we explore the features of a master bathroom in this green construction. Glass tile (co [...]
Catalpa Square is now Terra Place
Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The development at 2409 W Catalpa, however, may be smelling [...]
The green features of 4847 North Ashland
The very last development Mark and I passed on our recent drive up Ashland Avenue was a six-flat at 4847 N Ashland Ave in Ravenswood. Sergio & Banks [...]
Catalpa's gardens and rooftop views
"This seals the deal...it's pretty amazing, you can see the whole city here," Paullette Rodriguez exclaims at the opening of this final video from C [...]
Upgrades and reductions at Catalpa Gardens
In the second video from our Catalpa Gardens trip, Mark continues his conversation with sales manager Paulette Rodriguez about the homes' standard f [...]
Catalpa Gardens: Priced Right, Part 2
While I was snapping more than enough sunny photos of Edgewater from Catalpa Gardens's balconies (see previous post), Mark talked to sales manager P [...]
Catalpa Gardens: Priced Right
Seven weeks after we reported the dramatic price reductions at Edgewater's Catalpa Gardens, 1122 W Catalpa Ave, there remain only two one-bedroom [...]
Walking East Woodlawn with the Woodlawn Wonder
"I hate my developer" is the tag line of a fascinating blog that chronicles the days of a woman who bought into a troubled condo development in East [...]
YoChicago's Ashland Adventure, Part 6: Venturing into Ravenswood
In the final video from Joe and Mark's Excellent Ashland Avenue Adventure we took a look at two new-construction developments near Chase Park in Lak [...]
YoChicago's Ashland Adventure, Part 5: Spying six-flats from Waveland Avenue to Grace Street
The 3700 block of North Ashland Avenue, bounded by Waveland Avenue to the south and Grace Street to the north, was a good place to stop and look at [...]
Still on the shelf: Unsold condos near Clark Street and Lawrence Avenue in Uptown
"Still on the shelf": It's our way of talking about developments where listing times are counted in years, not days. For our inaugural segment, I tr [...]
Panorama-rama!: City views from Silver Tower
I posted a couple of view shots from the Silver Tower's 15th-floor model unit yesterday, but they didn't give the full picture. Joe stepped out on the [...]
In Lincoln Square, Part 2: Lincoln Avenue from Leland to Lawrence
As Mark and I continue our walk up Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Square, we pass the final minutes of a farmers market next to the Brown Line's Western [...]