Tag: Downtown Loop
A Gold Coast custom home on a high-floor corner
1000 Lake Shore Plaza is at the corner of Oak Street, where Lake Shore Drive meets the Magnificent Mile. It's across from Oak Street Beach and st [...]
A newer Wicker Park home with great outdoor space
The 3-bedroom, 3 1/2 bath home at 1515 N Paulina St in Wicker Park has large rooms throughout, a recently-updated kitchen / family room and an att [...]
EnV apartments offers steep rent discounts
Discount is a dirty word in the world of new rental high-rises, where price-cutting takes the form of "free rent" specials limited to new renters. [...]
A back yard lawn and front yard beach in the Gold Coast
If you're relocating to the Gold Coast from a lakefront home on the North Shore, you don't have to give up your back yard grass or the beach outsi [...]
New website goes live for 1225 Old Town
Floor plans, prices and other details for 1225 Old Town, a new rental high-rise at 1225 N Wells St in Old Town, became available early yesterday e [...]
Gold Coast apartment tower takes a step forward
Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that the Fifield Cos. has won the bidding to develop a new retail / apartment tower on the Jewel site at Cl [...]
Tulip mania outside 600 Lake Shore Drive
Buzz Ruttenberg, the developer of 600 Lake Shore Drive, is well known both for his devotion to the visual arts and for having a puckish sense of h [...]
YoChicago’s best new homes of 2007, an update
Five years ago yesterday we posted the picks of our then editorial staff for Chicago's best new homes 2007.
Our staff had a near-perfect record [...]
A fresh look at a duplex riverfront penthouse
Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin's most recent video tour focuses on a two-story penthouse on the Chicago River. The home boasts dramatic views fr [...]
Number of MLS-listed downtown rentals up sharply
After reaching a new low last week, the number of MLS-listed rentals jumped 23% week-over-week as of today.
Last week at this time there were 6 [...]
New construction from RD Precision in East Village
We recently visited a home built by RD Precision at 2550 W Huron St in Smith Park both while it was under construction (video below) and after it [...]
CA23 is down to the final four in the West Loop
Crews are on target to enable late December delivery of units at Phase II of CA23, which is under construction at 23 N Carpenter in the West Loop. [...]
Urban Lux – rental spam as search bait
Chicago-based Urban Lux promises to "change the way people find apartments" as it expands "throughout the US and Europe" – but delivers the bait-a [...]
The grass is greener at 1000 North LaSalle’s dog park
Planned Property Management just made the dog park at 1000 N LaSalle more pet- and pet-owner friendly with the addition of a grassy area, new benc [...]
Gold Coast studio apartments with in-unit washer / dryers
If you're looking for a studio apartment in the Gold Coast with an in-unit washer / dryer, you can stop looking: there aren't any. Ditto for one-, [...]
A high floor 3-bedroom on the Gold Coast’s best block
Unit 2505 at 50 E Bellevue Plwraps around 3 sides of the Gold Coast building, enabling great views and light from floor-to-ceiling windows.
The [...]
MLS-listed downtown rentals at another new low
For the third time in the last four weeks the number of downtown Chicago homes and condos listed for rent in the MLS hit a new low.
When we be [...]
A time-lapse video of K2 from day one to now
K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit high-rise apartment building in the Fulton River District broke ground last October. Its progress from then [...]
Five years ago today was Prairie District Day
On April 20, 2007 YoChicago featured the South Loop's Prairie District.
Developers Jerry Karlik and Keith Giles gave us an overview of their ill-fa [...]
Dennis Rodkin sees the light in the South Loop
The latest Deal Estate column video features Dennis Rodkin's take on a South Loop loft that we visited last December. We focused on the loft's cha [...]