2/2/11
I signed a contract to sell my home, which you can see in the above video (part 1 here), the first night of the...
8/13/10
After short looks at Grand Bend at Green Bay, the Evanston Farmers’ Market, and the shops and restaurants near Church Street and Maple Avenue,...
7/12/10
Long-time YoChicago readers may remember Eric Borys as “The Bench,” our Irving Park correspondent. For about six years, Eric has lived in an apartment...
6/2/10
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...
5/31/10
The block along Spruce Street east of Glendale is only one of many handsome blocks in Winnetka, says Joe Zekas. It has a special...
5/24/10
Mike Stern of Koenig & Strey took Joe Zekas on a walking tour around the intersection of Prairie Avenue and Central Street, a convenient,...
5/10/10
Join Joe Zekas for a BlockWalk down a street he didn’t build on. Joe explains: Back in the early ’80s I bought two lots...
5/5/10
In the text summary accompanying this video, Joe Zekas writes: This is one of my favorite blocks in Chicago. I lived there for nearly...
4/19/10
Loran McDonald was the first New Trier kid I met upon arriving at the University of Missouri more than a decade ago. During our...
4/8/10
Like Joe, I picked one of the streets I know best for my first BlockWalk: the 1600 block of North Claremont Avenue, near the...
4/5/10
With this video we’re launching a new feature: BlockWalks, a simple video tour of a single Chicago or suburban block. For many Chicagoans the...