Slow-moving apartment project at Western and Bloomingdale finally nearing completion
I kind of tuned out the long-stalled project at Western and Bloomingdale avenues sometime last year, well after it had turned into a boarded-up, gra [...]
Market watch: What's available in Avondale
Avondale! Let's say you want to live there, because it's Chicago's next hot 'hood (or at least it was until RedEye decided it wasn't), but you don't [...]
New condos still arriving in Albany Park
Residential construction hasn't hit a stand-still just yet, not even in a neighborhood like Albany Park. All six condos at 3300 W Lawrence Ave final [...]
A jewel-box Tudor in Norwood Park
Scattered throughout the outer neighborhoods you'll find thousands of charming Tudor-style homes. Joe Z. calls them "jewel-box Tudors" based on thei [...]
Neighborhood trivia: Chicago's oval road
Test your knowledge of Chicago's 'hoods with this quick question:
Name the Chicago street that forms an oval, and the neighborhood it's in.
Think yo [...]
A 4-bedroom, 3 ½ bath single-family in Dunning Square under $280K
As you watch the sponsored video and see the surprisingly large, open spaces in this completely remodeled single-family home at 3745 N Octavia St, y [...]
BlockWalking West Walker with Eric
Long-time YoChicago readers may remember Eric Borys as "The Bench," our Irving Park correspondent. For about six years, Eric has lived in an apartme [...]
Weekend rant: we can't afford affordable housing
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp. recently held the grand opening for its new Rosa Parks Apartments in Humboldt Park.
The 94-unit project has 1- to 4-be [...]
Little distress, lots of life on Drake Avenue
The way Alderman Mell's been talking, you'd be forgiven for thinking Albany Park was a wasteland of board-ups and junkies these days. Using this for [...]
Newly rehabbed two-bedrooms available with special financing in Belmont Cragin
Buyers can take advantage of Fresh Horizon Realty's low down-payment mortgage programs with no PMI when purchasing a newly rehabbed two-bedroom at t [...]
A weekend walk through Portage Park
Saturday was a great day for a bike ride, so I pedaled up Milwaukee Avenue from Bucktown through Logan Square, Avondale, and Irving Park, eventually [...]
Shark bites: Four-bedroom duplexes available for under $300K in Irving Park
Buyers are coming around on a new-construction six-flat at 3500 W Irving Park Rd on the Irving Park / Albany Park border, where the Matt Garrison [...]
New reductions make 3550 Lawndale's two-bedrooms even more affordable
Buyers can still get low-interest, no-PMI mortgages for homes at 3550 W Lyndale St in Logan Square, and now they'll pay even less for the buildin [...]
"Suburban living" in Sauganash Woods for $10,000 below '01 sale price
"Suburban living in the city" is the tagline for this listing, and I'd say its pictures back that up. The four-bedroom / 3.5-bath single-family [...]
From the vault: Kass and the castle
News that Rudy Acosta's infamous castle on the Kennedy is on the market had us digging back into the Tribune's video archives for this gem: columnis [...]
Deal of the day: Discounts upon discounts on Edgebrook Glen and Mayfair Crossing homes
CA Development is promoting a...wait for it..."a-MAY-zing Savings Sale" this month in which all nine existing single-families at Edgebrook Glen in F [...]
Today's news: $22 per square foot for a Humboldt Park REO
One of the homes to hit the MLS in the past 24 hours is this 1,422 square-foot, three-bedroom / 1.5-bath single-family home at 1631 N Springfield Ave [...]
Shark bites: "Devastation" in West Rogers Park's condo conversions
Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from CondoShark.com's Matt Garrison focusing on two topics: the types of buyers who are active in the post- [...]
Terrific pricing at the edge of Edgebrook
Talke a walk through one of the new condos at Edgebrook Pointe, 6425 W Touhy Ave, with Joe Zekas and Phyllis Bisceglie of Sergio & Banks.
Two-bedro [...]
BlockWalks: the 4400 block of North Albany Street in Albany Park
Loran McDonald was the first New Trier kid I met upon arriving at the University of Missouri more than a decade ago. During our four years at Mizzou [...]