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Chicago's hottest neighborhoods
After more than a decade of unprecedented growth, the Chicago housing market is showing signs of a slowdown. The low interest rates that helped fuel [...]
Heightened tensions
With West Loop development looking up, residents fight new high-rises
I'm standing at the Amtrak line at Racine Avenue and Hubbard Street in the West [...]
Changes in attitude
Des Plaines earns new image with housing, retail and a model downtown
The story of Des Plaines, at least this story of Des Plaines, starts and ends w [...]
Shoemaker Lofts and the Avondale you never knew
This morning, Yo was searching for some photographs of the Avondale neighborhood, and decided to check out the Web site for Shoemaker Lofts, one of tw [...]
Drive-by: Optima Old Orchard Woods shaping up nicely
If you drive the Edens Expressway with any regularity, the Optima project at Old Orchard Road is an ever larger presence in your consciousness, and [...]
Red Seal opens 50-acre mixed-use development in Galewood
Chicago has gone from Carl Sandburg's "player with railroads and the nation's freight handler" to a player with condos and housing handler. The two a [...]
Browse the Mag Mile without leaving home
What better way to spend a crisp Sunday afternoon than browsing the mass of humanity that is the Magnificent Mile, the world-renowned shopping distr [...]
Freedom condos? Nah, Chicago builders love French
The flap over "freedom fries" and avoidance of all things French by some Americans does not seem to have affected residential real estate in Chicago. [...]
Neighborhood markers a sign of the times in Lincoln Square
In case you were wondering, you just entered LINCOLN SQUARE! Obnoxious markers like the one above have popped up in various neighborhoods in recent [...]
First-floor rentals can be worse than the garden apartment
We've railed on the problems that can plague garden apartments, but Beth and Frank tell us they're more nervous about security as they move from a gar [...]
Buy a house, buy a school district at Bradley Place
New single-family homes have become rare in the city, much less single-families in the Alexander Graham Bell school district. The elementary school is [...]
Chicago houses under $90,000 (yes, houses)
It's easy to start thinking you have to be a millionaire to buy a home in Chicago, an idea we no doubt contributed to with recent posts on luxury cond [...]
To the manor born
Grand Regent Park homes bring suburban space to city living
The notion of combining the benefits of city and suburban living is not a new one. Euro [...]
Ravenswood Manor: dock your canoe right outside the house
While we were in the neighborhood, we thought we'd snap a few shots of some of the greatest riverfront homes in Chicago, in Ravenswood Manor. The vie [...]
The bargain hunt
They're growing rare, but deals remain for those in the know
Wouldn't it be nice to turn back the clock to that golden age, just six months ago, when [...]
Massive housing projects planned in emerging Chicago neighborhoods
City Homes
New-home buyers will have a potpourri of housing choices both in hot downtown enclaves and in emerging neighborhoods in 2006, real estate [...]
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 [...]
Getting into the Park
Rare condo conversions selling while luxury resales linger in Lincoln Park
Margot Huston was visiting her son at his rental apartment in the vintage h [...]
Bucktown of tomorrow?
The latest area to receive the hype treatment from Chicago developers and real estate agents is the land roughly bounded by North Western, West Montro [...]
Luxury for less
CA keeps prices low, finishes high at Edgebrook Glen
There's luxury pricing and then there's luxury living. According to Paul Bertsche, of CA Develop [...]