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Making progress on a full-floor home at Superior 110
Last month Greg Eldridge of @properties and Joe Zekas visited two half-floor units on the 23rd floor of Superior 110 in River North before the beg [...]
The two-bedrooms of Kingsbury Plaza
Kingsbury Plaza, the 47-story high-rise at 520 N Kingsbury St in River North, has a simple design: Each floor has four studios, four one-bedr [...]
How Chicago landlords can eliminate the Craigslist bedbug infestation
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders – h [...]
A guide to renting Streeterville apartments and condos
There are hundreds of condos and a few townhomes available for rent in Streeterville, the neighborhood bounded by the river, the lake, Michigan Avenue [...]
A guide to renting a home or apartment in the Loop / New East Side
Living in the heart of downtown Chicago limits your options to high-rise apartments and condos. There are only eleven rental towers in the Loop / New [...]
A guide to buying a Chicago loft condo
What is a loft?
Lofts are cool, sexy, dramatic fun spaces bristling with character and rich in visual appeal - and that's why the term is used so loo [...]
October in review: Looking back at sales in the Downtown / Loop market
Yesterday's news of a $5.25 million resale at the Palmolive Building (right) had me wondering what else sold in the downtown market this October. I pu [...]
Noble Street Lofts, then and now
"The 'Clybourn Corridor' of the 1990s will be Grand Avenue."
- Developer Jack Berger, speaking to Charles Hayes of the Chicago Tribune in a Sept. 10 [...]
Quote of the day: EnV misses the mark
We thought we could deliver a product that renters would appreciate and pay for.
Not yet, apparently. That's David Lynd of the Lynd Company, on his e [...]
From the vault: Erie Park, from Freedom Center
In a few minutes, River North's Erie Park will become A. Montgomery Ward Park. In honor of this re-dedication, and in keeping with the recent theme [...]
Yo in review: October 9 – 16
A stay-at-home tour of historic Pullman
The Chicago Spire: 2005-2010?
A condo alternative in Belmont Heights
Vultures see rental potential for T [...]
One Superior Place, then and now
One Superior Place, one of the two most expensive rental high-rises in downtown Chicago, is up for sale, according to Crain's.
CB Richard Ellis ha [...]
Contemporaine’s lone listing: a $1.59M penthouse
Buyers at Contemporaine stick around. According to Cook County records, the last sale in the Ralph Johnson-designed high-rise, located at 201 W Gr [...]
Hockey homes: Ex-Hawks have condos for sale and for rent
Cristobal Huet will be tending goal in Europe this season, so he doesn't have much use for his 4,700 square-foot condo at Millennium Centre (right), 3 [...]
Stuff that sells: top two-bedroom sales from six city regions
What's moving? Here are the top three closing prices for two-bedroom condos, single-families, and / or townhomes in each region of the city over the p [...]
Have the floor to yourself at Superior 110
One of the perks of buying into a new construction building is the opportunity to combine several units into an original, highly customized home. As t [...]
Busy, busy buildings: where the sales are
Blockshopper keeps a running tab on sales across the city, and organizes that data into a number of sortable lists and building-specific pages. Accord [...]
Stuff that sells: Downtown / Loop edition
What's moving near the core? Here are a few closings in 13 downtown neighborhoods, all from within the past seven days. (We define "Downtown / Loop" a [...]
Is Berwyn violating its own fair housing law?
The City of Berwyn's ordinances, amended in 2008, make it illegal to:
Make, print, circulate or publish, or cause to be made, printed, circulated o [...]