Let’s take a ride through Roseland
Roseland is "someplace you really don't want to be," says flippinmikegriffin, a self-described "small time real estate investor." Here's his summa [...]
Revisiting a 6-flat condo on Drexel Blvd
Five years ago today Yo looked in on a new-construction condo at 4010 S Drexel Blvd where 2- and 3-bedroom units were priced from the $260s to the [...]
From Yo’s archive – Grand Boulevard condos gone bust
Five years ago to the day we wrote about a new construction condo project at 4705 S Champlain Ave, where 3-bedroom, 2-bath units were priced from [...]
Two views of Woodlawn – fairy tale and reality
We begin with the fairy tale – a two-part video panegyric to the Rev. Leon Finney Jr, with cameo appearances by a number of Chicago notables. [...]
A warehouse makeover planned for Pilsen
The plans for several large new mixed-use / residential developments in Pilsen came to naught, but there is some significant construction on the h [...]
Price drops 44% in 14 days on Jackson Park Highlands home
Talk about rapid-fire price reductions …
The 5-bedroom, 3-bath home at 6710 S Euclid Ave in Jackson Park Highlands came on the market November [...]
From the vault – the twelve days of Pilsen
In the Christmas spirit, we offer you just the final stanza of this old standard. Click here to play the tune.
On the twelfth day of Pilsen
My [...]
Good morning Bridgeport
If your current or next neighborhood doesn't have a Sixth Ward or an Sloopin or an Uptown Update or a Center Square Journal, your best source of l [...]
WBEZ looks at Auburn Gresham’s identity
Kudos to Bill Healy and WBEZ for taking an extended look at Auburn Gresham, and introducing some of the people who contribute to the character of [...]
An update on Bridgeport’s Union Lofts
It's been nearly 10 years since we first wrote about Union Lofts in our now-defunct New Homes Magazine. At the time, March of 2002, forty of the 7 [...]
A drive down the Non-magnificent Mile
It's Partee Time, and Partee Wesley takes you on a drive along the Non-magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue's doppelgänger in Roseland and West Pullm [...]
New (?) construction single-family in Back of the Yards
The listing for 4600 S Marshfield Ave in Chicago's storied Back of the Yards neighborhood describes a "Beautiful newly built corner lot custom sin [...]
Chicago Magazine and YoChicago, in the vicinity of Canal and Archer
At the opening of his video tour of an Armour Square / Chinatown loft Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin noted that, on the very cloudy day of his v [...]
Eastgate Village remnants go to auction
When we last looked in on Eastgate Village, a troubled condo / townhome development that abuts the Stevenson Expressway connector to Lake Shore Dr [...]
Half a million a unit for low-income housing?
Back in June of 2004 we reported on one of the many schemes that have been schemed for the landmark Rosenwald Apartments – its conversion to condo [...]
A list of unstable Chicago neighborhoods
Chicago's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) has a goal of assisting the acquisition and renovation of 2,000 to 2,500 units over a 3- to 5-y [...]
From the vault – faces along the bar in Hyde Park
My son Jordan recently completed the tedious task of transferring more than 50,000 of our archive photos from CDs to a hard drive to make them mor [...]
Is mortgage fraud still afoot in Englewood?
Back in early August the Feds announced (PDF) the indictment of fourteen individuals charged with engaging in mortgage fraud in the Englewood neig [...]
Sunrise at Solstice in Hyde Park?
When we last reported on Solstice on the Park, nearly a year ago, we noted that new listings had been entered in the MLS for a project that appear [...]
Romanticizing Pullman, one of the nation’s great neighborhoods
The American Planning Association has select Chicago's Pullman neighborhood as one of its Great Places in America for 2011:
Pullman's timeless [...]