3/31/10
We normally don’t promote a lot of “go-and-do” events around the city, but in this case I’ll make an exception. The Chicago Architecture Foundation...
3/4/10
On March 4, 1837, the town of Chicago became a city. Among the 11,000-plus images in our Flickr photostream are hundreds of stunning photos...
2/26/10
The Nation of Islam’s presence in South Shore has been so significant that, as a child, Jeff Heilbrunn’s wife played around with the Fruit...
2/25/10
Jeff Heilbrunn wrote the book on block clubs. Literally. These neighborhood organizations have existed for decades, but Jeff, with the help of Builders Center...
2/24/10
Being a young transplant, just about everything I know about New City (and its sub-neighborhoods, Back of the Yards and Canaryville) comes from the...
2/24/10
For South Shore to rebound, someone will have address the problems of “Terror Town,” an area plagued with boarded-up buildings and open-air drug markets,...
2/23/10
Even with the economic hurdles South Shore will have to clear in the coming years, there’s still a lot to envy about the neighborhood,...
2/22/10
If you don’t know much about South Shore‘s history, you might be surprised to learn that a neighborhood native like Jeff Heilbrunn had never...
2/18/10
Our link to RedEye’s “next hot ‘hood” article generated a lot of comments, some of which touched on the present and future of the...
12/14/09
The area we call the South Triangle is big enough to contain several South Side “neighborhoods for the rest of us.” Within the boundaries...
12/10/09
The final segment of my Beverly and Morgan Park drive-around features the homes of Griffin Place (formerly 103rd Place), site of the largest concentration...
11/16/09
Jump into the YouTube time machine and travel back to the 1960s to see the construction of Lake Point Tower, the 70-story residential high-rise...
9/24/09
Occasionally a reader or agent ask whether we’ve heard any news about the Schoenhofen Brewery. The two buildings, which form a landmark district in...
9/23/09
Living next door to the president’s Chicago home can be like living in a “circus,” according to neighbor Bill Grimshaw, who is selling his...
9/19/09
One of my favorite Chicago intersections is Jefferson, Lumber and Cermak, in East Pilsen, just west of the Chicago River. The street names themselves...
9/18/09
Harold Washington, Chicago’s first African-American mayor, launched his mayoral campaign in Bill and Jacky Grimshaw’s dining room. The Grimshaws’ political connections ratcheted up sharply...
9/17/09
YoChicago doesn’t often cover resale homes, but when a client asks whether you’d like a slot between the Associated Press and NPR to interview...