11/12/13
From yesterday’s Chicago Tribune: A key parcel on the south end of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile appears headed for redevelopment in an ambitious project that...
10/30/13
132 East Delaware Place offers luxury residences, shopping, dining and offices under one roof. Most people identify the building with Bloomingdale’s, its most prominent...
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...
11/19/12
At an architectural height of 844 feet, the Park Tower condominium, 800 N Michigan Ave, ranks as Chicago’s 12th tallest building. It’s the fifth-tallest...
8/23/12
As I watched tourists in front of the Hancock building using their tablet cameras to photograph Fourth Presbyterian Church, I couldn’t help wondering how...
2/17/12
At a height of 725 feet the 63-story Olympia Centre is said to be the tallest mid-block building in Chicago. In addition to condominiums...
2/10/12
If you have tales you’d like to share from your apartment hunt, add them in a comment or email yojoe at yochicago dot com....
12/12/11
It’s Partee Time, and Partee Wesley takes you on a drive along the Non-magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue’s doppelgänger in Roseland and West Pullman. While...
5/13/11
Another Friday brings another low number of downtown homes listed for rent on the MLS. At this time last year, 1,350 condos, townhomes, and...
5/11/11
The priciest new rental to hit the downtown market this week will set you back $16,900 a month. Make that $21,900 if you want...
3/17/11
This short video, courtesy of LXTV’s Open House Chicago, plays very much like a commercial for Prudential Rubloff (because that’s basically what it is),...
2/15/11
With elements of its facade now in place along its lower levels, it’s getting easier to see how the Ritz-Carlton Residences high-rise, under construction...
9/30/10
Does your home have an enough room? Not enough room, but a room that gives visitors “just enough information” about you, and that serves...
9/27/10
I didn’t mean to write anything else about this building for a while — it just happened that way. As the headline says, this...
9/22/10
With yesterday’s sales update still in mind, I took a detour to the Mag Mile during my lunch break to get a look at...
9/21/10
You know times have changed when three pre-construction sales can make headlines. Crain’s reports that the 88-unit Ritz-Carlton Residences, under construction at 664 N...
8/19/10
The most expensive short sale I can find in Chicago is this duplex penthouse at Chicago Place, on the northwest corner of Huron Street...
5/21/10
Yo reader Bob sent along his view into the Ritz-Carlton Residences site at 664 N Michigan Ave after reading yesterday’s pricing update. More clutter...
5/20/10
What, you thought we’d entered some new age of frugality and thrift? Not on the Mag Mile! Ritz-Carlton laughs in the face of a...
3/5/10
This was the scene at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Erie Street on Wednesday afternoon, where workers were clearly doing something with a...