7/12/13
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 and...
9/17/12
Thinking about strategically defaulting on your mortgage and seeing how long you can live in your home without paying? Think about what Heath Wolfe,...
9/14/12
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...
7/2/12
Last week the Tribune reported on Census Bureau figures showing that Chicago and other major cities had gained population between 2010 and 2011, and...
4/13/12
Today’s Chicago Tribune has an informative article about apartment-hunting strategies in what’s currently a landlord’s market. It’s generally good advice – as far it...
2/23/12
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,...
2/1/12
The headline read 6-tower project planned, and the story began: A Chicago-based developer intends to build a $750 million residential project near downtown that...
1/9/12
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...
10/12/11
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...
7/22/11
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: Reclusive British developer...
5/17/11
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 following Chicago...
3/2/11
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 examine...
2/7/11
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. According to...
2/6/11
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...