Remembering Wilmette’s C.J. Arthur’s and Art Falzer
Last September, just before it closed, my son and I visited C.J. Arthur's in Wilmette for the last of the 100s of meals we'd eaten there over a mo [...]
YoChicago wishes you a happy new year
And we wish you a healthy and prosperous new year, according to your personal measure of prosperity.
Part of what makes us happy is not followi [...]
Chicago was the biggest loser in net domestic migration
From newgeography.com:
For all the talk of how the Great Recession has driven people — particularly the “footloose young” — toward dense urban [...]
A great Santini struts his stuff
Ironworkers may be crazy, but they're also fun. Some of them appear to have more fun than others, and some of us have more fun because of the high [...]
A chat with Jennifer Ames, a $100 million real estate agent
By the end of August Coldwell Banker's Jennifer Ames' sales for the year passed the $100 million mark. That's a milestone rarely achieved by a Chi [...]
Life after people, Chicago edition
We somehow missed posting this fascinating video when it first came around.
After several hundred years there's almost nothing natural about Ch [...]
Affordable housing for Chicagoans – in Indianapolis
According to an article at Urbanophile, more than 48,000 Chicagoans migrated to Indianapolis between 2001 and 2009. Indianapolitans (?) also migra [...]
YoChicago ranked as one of top specialty news sites
We're very pleased to have been recognized by the Community Media Workshop as among the top Chicago news sites in the Specialty News category in its N [...]
Look up in the sky this morning and wave to YoChicago
Almost two years ago we chartered a helicopter from AM Air Service in Schaumburg and flew around Chicago, from South Shore up to Wilmette, with ha [...]
Chicago Association of Realtors sues one of its members
The Chicago Association of Realtors (CAR), an organization that we've repeatedly suggested is ethically challenged, just sent an email news release an [...]
Bloody real estate agent brawls – Beijing and Chicago editions
Baird & Warner's Facebook page alerted us to a video of real estate agents slugging it out on the streets of Beijing. The Sydney (AU) Telegraph re [...]
View week, light posting ahead
I'm out of town beginning today through next week at my annual family gathering on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This will be the 20th consec [...]
Quote of the day – America’s future is in the suburbs
Advocates of the proposition that dense central cities are the way of the future have a few barriers to face – facts and consumer preferences.
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A Kardas Photography display at Wishbone in Lake View
We began showcasing the visual artistry of Michael Kardas in our print publications, twenty-five years ago. Ever since, I've leapt at every opport [...]
Quote of the day – Chicago’s population gain just a statistical quirk
Last week the Tribune reported on Census Bureau figures showing that Chicago and other major cities had gained population between 2010 and 2011, a [...]
Meet Lake Shore Park’s inspiring volunteer gardeners
The next time you visit Streeterville's Lake Shore Park, take a few seconds to look around for Janice and Marshall.
You're likely to find Marsh [...]
A song for Studs
Studs Terkel, as probably everyone in Chicago knows, would have turned 100 today.
Back in 2007 YoChicago attended the Studs Terkel Community Me [...]
Celebrating twenty-five years of Chicago real estate
I founded YoChicago's parent firm, now known as Data Based Ads, in May of 1987.
The company's initial business was publishing a bi-weekly real est [...]
Master architectural preservationist Bill Lavicka
William "Bill" Lavicka impressed, charmed and captivated many people during his life, including many in the media, Don DeBat among them. Don becam [...]
Chicago will miss Bill Lavicka
The time I saw Bill Lavicka, it was at his 62nd birthday party at a renovated home he called "Celestial House," and vocalist Sean Harris was singi [...]