Tag: Chicago Tribune
Blair Kamin is back in Chicago
Blair Kamin, the Tribune's award-winning architecture critic, has spent the past year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. He's apparently back in Chicago a [...]
Quote of the day – mortgage cops will lock you up
Thinking about strategically defaulting on your mortgage and seeing how long you can live in your home without paying?
Think about what Heath Wolf [...]
YoChicago ranked as one of top specialty news sites
We're very pleased to have been recognized by the Community Media Workshop as among the top Chicago news sites in the Specialty News category in its N [...]
Quote of the day – Chicago’s population gain just a statistical quirk
Last week the Tribune reported on Census Bureau figures showing that Chicago and other major cities had gained population between 2010 and 2011, a [...]
Supplementing the Trib’s apartment hunting tips
Today's Chicago Tribune has an informative article about apartment-hunting strategies in what's currently a landlord's market. It's generally good [...]
Home prices headed in the right direction – down
Today’s front-page Tribune article on housing prices in the region reports that sales volume has been rising in each of the last seven months, but [...]
Five years ago today the Tribune reported plans for Kinzie Station
The headline read 6-tower project planned, and the story began:
A Chicago-based developer intends to build a $750 million residential project n [...]
Is greater Bronzeville a school desert?
There's been a great deal of attention paid to "food deserts" in Chicago, i.e. neighborhoods where fresh food is hard to find.
More worrisome f [...]
Quote of the day: a symbol of Uptown’s ongoing dilapidation
It's been about 35 years since I first met an enthusiast for the Uptown Theatre and heard tales of its imminent revival and its promise to transfo [...]
Kamin pulls his punches on Post Office site, Greising throws a roundhouse
Begin with David Greising's take at the Chicago News Cooperative on a developer's plans for Chicago's long-shuttered main Post Office building:
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The Trib has a weird take on Oprah and the West Loop
Today's Chicago Tribune has about as wrong-headed and off-the-wall take on a neighborhood's development as I've seen in over three decades of foll [...]
Quote of the day – suburbanizing Chicago
From an op-ed by Dennis Byrne in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune:
A real "back-to-the-city" movement would require Emanuel — and city planners — to exa [...]
Misquote of the day – only 30 $1M plus sales
Many of the numbers he talks about these days aren't very pretty, particularly when it comes to Moorehead's sweet spot: upper-bracket homes.
Accord [...]
Dennis Rodkin’s excellent adventures – walking Beverly
If you enjoy exploring Chicago on video you won’t want to miss Dennis Rodkin’s neighborhood videos, based on his Chicago Magazine focus on t [...]
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