1/1/15
The Judson is a 3-story, 19-unit vintage apartment building at 1243 Judson Ave in Evanston. The Judson...
10/22/14
The Edwin J Gardiner house, 1345 N Astor St, was built in 1887 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The...
9/29/14
Aviation Lofts is a 7-story, 49-unit apartment building in the South Loop. A Giordano’s restaurant occupies the ground-level...
9/3/14
Aviation Lofts, 1340 S Michigan, is a landmark in the South Loop. The building’s distinctive architecture and history have earned it a slot on...
8/26/14
The Edwin J Gardiner house, 1345 N Astor St, was built in 1887 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The...
4/1/14
The Shoreland is a Hyde Park landmark, once one of its grandest hotels and now its newest luxury apartments. The Studio Gang-inspired renovation of...
12/26/13
Lake Street Lofts is a 6-story, 89-unit loft apartment building in the West Loop. Built in 1886,...
12/24/13
River West Lofts is a 6-story, 160-unit loft building at 925 W Huron St in the River...
12/5/13
The Belden-Stratford is a 15-story, 297-unit vintage apartment building at 2300 N Lincoln Park West in Lincoln Park....
11/26/13
It was late January when I toured The Emery House in Elmhurst with Tom Makinney of Coldwell Banker’s Gracik Makinney Group, one of our...
10/25/13
In the early 1950s when 29 year old Chicago architect Milton Schwartz designed the structure that sits at 320 W Oakdale in Lake View,...
2/22/13
The 6-flat has long been one of Chicago’s most popular housing types – so popular, in fact, that you can find very few in...
12/5/12
Armour Square is one of Chicago’s 77 community areas. The Chinatown neighborhood occupies the northern part of Armour Square. US Cellular Field and the...
11/26/12
Storkline Furniture was once one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of infant and child furniture, but its sprawling factory at the bleak western edge...
8/6/12
Henry Hobson Richardson‘s Glessner House, now a museum and local and national landmark, was not well-received by its neighbors at the time it was...
6/11/12
What’s now known as the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool in Lincoln Park has been called “the quintessential oasis.” It’s one of the few examples...
5/2/12
The Pilsen Historic District is bounded roughly on the east and west by Halsted St (800 W) and Western Ave (2400 W), on the...
2/24/12
The April issue of This Old House magazine singles out Beverly as one of the nation’s “best old house neighborhoods” for 2012. This Old...
1/27/12
The documents prepared to nominate properties or districts for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places are often wonderfully entertaining reads. It’s a...