WSJ: DeNovi 26th among national Realtors in transaction sides
Congrats to our friend and client Frank DeNovi, who ranked 26th in the Wall Street Journal's 2010 list of the nation's top 400 real estate professiona [...]
Daley bows out
Da Mare won't run for re-election in 2011, says the Tribune (and just about every other news source in town). [...]
Ruttenberg and Supera entering the Chicago Realtor Hall of Fame
Yesterday the Chicago Association of Realtors announced the two newest inductees into its Hall of Fame: Buzz Ruttenberg, founder of Belgravia Group, [...]
Tracking down Tyrus' townhome
Perhaps you read this story about ex-Bull Tyrus Thomas putting his Northbrook townhome on the market and wanted to see more. Using my finely honed sle [...]
Lagrange bids the biz adieu
“Of the type that does upscale condos, can you think of a better architect?”
- Architect Stanley Tigerman, speaking to Crain's about Lucien Lagrang [...]
Former YoChicagoan a Solar Decathlon finalist
Valerie Zekas, a former YoChicago employee, is a member of The New School / Stevens Institute of Technology team that's been selected as one of 20 fin [...]
All our exes live in Texas
To get a glimpse of [the] future, urbanists and planners need to get beyond their nostalgic quest to recreate the highly centralized 19th-century city [...]
When YoChicago isn't the best career choice
OK Go's latest brings to mind Andrew Duncan, who left our parent company Data Based Ads years ago to go on tour with the band he co-founded. He left [...]
Immigrants and neighborhood development
In his opening remarks at LISC/Chicago's "Back to the Future" panel last week, Raul Raymundo of The Resurrection Project focused on the role of immi [...]
YoChicago guest author on HGTV
Mark your calendar for December 10. That's when an episode of HGTV's House Hunters will air featuring YoChocago guest author and blogger Eric Rojas of [...]
Navigating MoveSmart.org with Justin Massa
After giving us an update on MoveSmart.org's development, Justin Massa jumped on the computer to demonstrate just how the tool works. The neighborho [...]
Live and Play magazine goes to print
I don't often see Web sites making the jump to print, but Jenny Ames' Live and Play in Chicago has done just that.
During our sit-down at Coldwell Ba [...]
Creating MoveSmart's neighborhood finder
On Monday MoveSmart.org launched its new neighborhood finder, a tool that will direct people to Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs (by ZIP code) base [...]
Query quintet: five questions on the market with @properties agent Jeff Proctor
Last Tuesday I met @properties agent Jeff Proctor at a broker open house he was holding at 1306 N Greenview Ave #1, a 2,300 square-foot three-bedroom [...]
Five easy pieces: Gale Goldstick of Coldwell Banker
In an effort to get the most substantive responses from our interviewees, we've honed the five questions of our ongoing "five easy pieces" feature. [...]
Five easy pieces on the real estate market with Elizabeth August of @properties
We've called up @properties agent Elizabeth August several times over the years, mostly to get the latest scoop on the new condos at 155 N Aberdeen St [...]
Five easy pieces with Jenny Ames
To break the ice on our hour-long interview at Coldwell Banker's Hancock Center office, I asked Realtor Jenny Ames to run the "five easy pieces" gau [...]
Five easy pieces: Monique Sandberg
While making the rounds at Superior 110's brokers open house in River North last week, I found Prudential Rubloff agent Monique Sandberg. After talk [...]
Five easy pieces: James A. Horwath
During my visit to a brokers open house at Superior 110 on Tuesday evening, I met James A. Horwath of Prudential Rubloff. I asked if he would like t [...]
Carlos Zambrano on the Chicago River
Jeremy Schnitker and I were out exploring the Chicago Riverwalk this afternoon when Jeremy spotted Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano in a boat on the Chi [...]