Tag: Downtown Loop
A steep price for a Trump studio
Remember hotel condos? Many in Chicago real estate would rather forget them. Nevertheless, you can still find these homes on the market -- just look t [...]
Construction checkup: Making way for new apartments in Old Town
Last week Curbed's Mark Boyer caught up with JDL Development prez Jim Letchinger, to get the latest on 1233 North Wells, a new 16-story, 250-unit [...]
Buzz Ruttenberg to complete West Loop’s CA23
Crain’s Chicago Business, in a current article (behind the paywall) on Belgravia Group founder Buzz Ruttenberg ’s 70th birthday celebrations, rev [...]
Extraordinary views from a 51st-floor Harbor Point home
Harbor Point’s location affords some of the city’s best views of Grant Park, Millennium Park and the lakefront.
Yesterday morning I met Prude [...]
Rental watch: 2 homes for $2,000
The median price for a downtown home listed for rent on the MLS is holding steady at $2,000 a month. In the past seven days, two condos, both in the S [...]
Children’s Museum out, Walmart in at Grant Park
With the Chicago Children's Museum looking more and more likely to stay at Navy Pier, the Daley Administration has found a new use for the part of [...]
Larger living areas, more options at 600 North Lake Shore Drive
As the market changed, buyers at 600 Lake Shore Drive began telling Stephanie Maloney, a top sales associate at the development, that they would l [...]
Dart family bails out Walton on the Park
Walton on the Park doesn't have to worry about that pesky construction loan anymore. According to Crain's, the Dart family -- owners of Dart Container [...]
The highest outdoor pool in the Gold Coast
It’s no secret that YoChicago loves video – in part because it’s one of the services we offer to advertisers, but mostly because we think it’s the [...]
One South Halsted presentation scheduled for Wednesday
West Loopers can get the scoop on F&F Realty's One South Halsted proposal during a community meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Alderman Wal [...]
Riding the Red Line: Roosevelt
The third stop on my tour of the Red Line was the Roosevelt station near Roosevelt Road and State Street in the South Loop.
Traveling north fro [...]
Where are YoChicago readers looking to rent?
It was John Battelle who first tagged the information gathered by Google search as a “database of intentions,” and it seems an apt meme.
Here, [...]
Rental watch: Fresh offers in 60654
The number of downtown condos, townhomes, and single-families listed for rent through the MLS has been back up above 1,000 for the past couple of wee [...]
YoChicago’s new at-a-glance list of downtown and Lincoln Park apartments
Chicago’s apartment rental services / locators / finders (bedbugs) work diligently to make you believe that finding an apartment in Chicago is a d [...]
The last Cabrini high-rise going down
Next Wednesday will mark the beginning of the demolition of the last remaining high-rise at Cabrini-Green.
Poetry and lights will mark its pass [...]
Stuff that sells: March in Streeterville
The dense 60611 ZIP code, which roughly corresponds to the Streeterville neighborhood, is where the action is when it comes to recent transac [...]
A ‘vanilla box’ in Wicker Park, priced below $500K
The lowest-priced single-family home in Wicker Park, excluding a short sale listing at 1234 N Marion Ct (marketed as a "hot Bucktown location", de [...]
Riding the Red Line: Cermak / Chinatown
My next stop on the way north via CTA's Red Line was the Cermak / Chinatown station, located at 138 W Cermak Rd. Due to construction on the statio [...]
The ‘deal of the century’ in the South Loop?
Is $225,000 for a 1,285 square-foot, two-bedroom / two-bath loft in the South Loop the "Deal of the Century"? That's how Lynn Laddish Plata of @pr [...]
$99K for a Blue Moon Loft in Fulton Market
This morning an 800 square-foot, one-bedroom / one-bath loft at the Blue Moon Lofts, 215 N Aberdeen St in Fulton Market, was listed at $99,000, ma [...]