1/7/11
Despite seeing thousands of white and African-American residents leave, the Southwest Side neighborhood of Garfield Ridge actually grew in size by a modest 1.5%...
1/4/11
Built for a then-hefty $9 million, South Shore High was planned to be “a pace-setter for the city,” according to a 1968 Tribune story....
12/15/10
The New York Times map of American Community Survey data is already yielding some interesting examples of demographic clustering. The data says that 10...
12/15/10
Yesterday the US Census Bureau released the latest set of five-year American Community Survey data, covering 2005 to 2009. By the end of the...
12/13/10
The inaugural Curbed Cup competition for Chicago neighborhoods began today with what should be a pretty lopsided showdown between the first and last seeds:...
12/10/10
Have you nominated your favorite neighborhood for the 2010 Curbed Cup? I’m guessing not, based on the five comments Mark has received to date....
12/8/10
Some of Madden/Wells buildings were closed down fast when buildings experienced “emergency conditions”–much like Cabrini-Green is doing right now. Because of this, service providers...
11/15/10
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing data and analysis to...
11/9/10
Curbed wants to know which Chicago neighborhood is ripe for gentrification, or at least a new wave of popularity and activity. Will it be...
10/14/10
Midway through our walk around his latest listing, I asked Eric Rojas to set the scene for any viewers who aren’t familiar with Roscoe...
10/12/10
Feel free to identify this park in the comments below, but if you want a YoChicago yo-yo, you’ll have to tell us which neighborhood...
9/21/10
If you’ve checked your RSS reader at least once in the past 24 hours, at least one of Eric Fischer‘s city map mashups has...
9/9/10
From the Boston Globe, a story that dovetails with a recent discussion about Chicago’s population trends: Frankly admitting that these cities are not going...
8/30/10
Yo sales manager and Loyola alum Anish stumbled upon this new video from his alma mater, which introduces new students to the campus’ Far...
8/25/10
I think the added level of complication is worth it. There are the shades of purple on the north, which should come as no...
2/25/10
Greg Hinz’ question about taxes in Chicago during LISC/Chicago‘s recent “Back to the Future” panel turned into a discussion about the city’s tangled bureaucracies...
12/16/09
Are 77 community areas and a hundred-something distinct neighborhoods just too much to remember? Don’t worry, @properties has you covered. Never mistake Jefferson Park...