Quote of the day – 1,000s of professionals in scores of storefronts
The Tribune and the Sun-Times reported on Ald. Proco Joe Moreno's proposal, which passed the City Council Zoning Committee, to allow a portion of [...]
Share some memories of Bill Moran
I did a variety of business with Bill Moran back in the 70s and early 80s, i.e. buying property through his brokerage firm and hiring his management d [...]
Where Chicagoans go when they leave
A while back we suggested that all our exes live in Texas, putting a waggish spin on Joel Kotkin's contrast of Texas' cities "growing population, [...]
172 Chicago homeless programs get $49M in HUD funds
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced yesterday that more than $49 million in funding has been renewed for 172 existing Chi [...]
Is Occupy Chicago using the homeless as cannon fodder?
Urban Turf Chicago links to a recent CNN Money article and contends that the Occupy movement "has come up with a creative, albeit rebellious, way [...]
They called it our bum-of-the-month club
We published print real estate newspapers and magazines until three years ago. We folded our popular New Homes Magazine, the last of our print pub [...]
Sun-Times flaunts real estate tax ignorance
A hat tip to The Wall Street Journal for spotlighting the Sun-Times' publication of the most ignorant real estate rant in recent memory, by column [...]
A brief visit to Chicagoland’s first condo expo
Yesterday morning I headed to the Conference Center at Navy Pier for a look at the Chicagoland Cooperator's Condo HOA and Co-op Expo.
Years ago [...]
For Steve and Randy Fifield, challenges are opportunities
In 2003 the 8-acre Fulton River District site that became K Station, now a residential complex of nearly 2,000 units, was nearly surrounded by rai [...]
Quote of the day – Graffiti, to glorify god’s name
If your neighborhood, or your property, has been vandalized by graffiti, watch the video to learn what you're up against – including an apparently [...]
Check out the new CribChatter and Sabrina 3.0
CribChatter has undergone a redesign. If you're unfamiliar with CribChatter, it's a local website where time-wasters gather to insult each other, blat [...]
TIF talk and public housing at Occupy Chicago
Local issues are being discussed at Occupy Chicago, and some of the discussion involves real estate.
The Reader's Ben Joravsky, who's lavished [...]
This land is Studs’ land
A hat tip to Chicagoist for calling attention to the anniversary of Studs Terkel's moving on to another Division Street.
Back in 2007 YoChicago [...]
Bill Lavicka, Chicago’s most-endangered preservationist
Bill Lavicka is a Chicago original, one of those outsize characters who create and preserve the built heritage the rest of us then take for grante [...]
Jay Strauss to plead guilty to defrauding condo owners
The the last time we called attention to Jay Strauss, co-owner of defunct Regent Realty Group, we noted that 3 years had passed between the time charg [...]
Jeanne Gang named a MacArthur Fellow
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang has been named one of twenty-two 2011 MacArthur Fellows, a distinction that comes with a no-strings attached grant o [...]
A day of remembrance
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country lov'd,
And mercy more than life.
O beautiful for patrio [...]
Chicago is losing its best real estate blogger
When Lockhart Steele told me he was moving forward with his twice-postponed Curbed Chicago launch I suggested he lock on to Mark Boyer, a former Y [...]
SkyNinja offers a window washer’s view of Chicago
Every so often I check in at SkyscraperCity's Photos that'll blow you away forum to snack on the visual feast that's served up there. And every vi [...]
Officer Casasanto and Mikey in happier days
“He was like my family,” the Tribune quotes Chicago police officer Paul Casasanto remembering his horse, Mikey C, who was named in honor of a fa [...]