Tag: Apartments
Downtown Chicago apartments – the dark side of the boom
Crain's Chicago Business raises the possibility that 2015 may be the year in which Chicago's downtown apartment market reprises a Pink Floyd lyric [...]
A post-collegiate sorority hive on the Gold Coast?
The video from last week's rooftop pool party at 1111 N Dearborn might lead you to believe that the building's merely a hive of post-collegiate so [...]
Views of Grant Park and Millennium Park
Grant Park is walled-in on three sides by high-rise apartment, condo and office buildings, many of which offer sweeping, forever-uninterru [...]
Movies in the park and more at K2 Apartments
Join us for a look at Fulton River Park, just one of the many attractions near K2, the new luxury apartment tower in the Fulton River District.
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The gender gap in high-rise apartments
According to the US Census Bureau Chicago's population is 51.5% female. That's higher than the statewide average of 51% despite Chicago's elderly [...]
Is affordable housing unaffordable for Chicago?
Chicago Real Estate Daily recently reported that the next phase of the redevelopment of the Robert Taylor Homes is moving forward. It involves the [...]
The views from Millennium Park Plaza
If you visit YoChicago with any frequency you know I'm addicted to visiting rooftops, high and low.
Yesterday I wandered the block-lon [...]
Stylishly renovated Park Ridge apartments
Those among you – and we know your number is legion – who consider donuts and pizza two of the essential food groups might have an interest in the [...]
Are new high-rise condos thinkable or un?
Crain's Chicago Business is reporting that "developers are starting to think the unthinkable" – building new high-rise condos. The Crain's report, how [...]
Tower of Pizza Hut apartments available for rent
DNAinfo reported on Friday that 1611 West Division, the 11-story building now less and less frequently referred to as the "Tower of Pizza Hut" bas [...]
Working with these agents is like eating flies
A tipster forwarded me the latest mugshot of Jerome Bressert, a rental services agent who was recently arrested in DuPage County on a domestic bat [...]
Video tours of dozens of Lakeview East apartment buildings
You can spend less than an hour seeing some of Lakeview East's best apartment buildings in YoChicago video tours. Or you can waste an hour at an a [...]
Media math not very sharp on Flats Chicago
Nearly a year ago the Sun-Times' David Roeder reported that the seven buildings being branded as Flats Chicago totaled 1,200 units.
Two days ago Cr [...]
More Streeterville apartments moving forward
We haven't heard much lately about Golub & Co's proposed high-rise at 410 E Grand in Streeterville, just east of its Streeter and Streeter Place devel [...]
Where are the renters’ gift cards?
"Where are the customers' yachts," a visitor to a New York harbor famously asked, after seeing yachts owned by bankers and brokers.
Two days ago we [...]
Will all the new downtown apartments find renters?
The downtown Chicago apartment market will add a total of more than 5,000 new units this year and next year. Will all those new apartments find rente [...]
500 Lake Shore Drive aggressively courting rental services
Rental service agents have been receiving daily email solicitations from the recently-opened 500 Lake Shore Drive apartments during what the building [...]
A half-hour tour of twenty Lincoln Park apartment buildings
You can spend half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent [...]
Ravenswood Terrace, 150 new apartments in Ravenswood
The new Ravenswood Terrace apartments will be immediately north of a Mariano's that's currently under construction, and a short walk from the Rave [...]
Find your next River North apartment here
Apartment rents at Chicago's downtown high-rises are frequently updated by programs similar to those used by airline reservation systems. We take [...]