Tag: Northwest Side
From Yo’s archives – Irving Park walks and a Smoque break
Smoque had just recently opened when Irving Park resident Erica Gunderson visited with YoChicago's Nat Swift, five years ago today. It has since [...]
Is North River Court on Belmont coming back from the dead?
YoChicago first mentioned North River Court, a condo development at 2609 W Belmont Ave in Avondale, nearly 5 years ago. When we last wrote about i [...]
FSBO follies in Logan Square?
In the early years of the millennium a patch of Logan Square along Armitage was a hotbed of development activity, playing host to a number of loft [...]
Median selling prices take a hit on northwest side
The last time I wrote for YoChicago, I highlighted several neighborhoods whose sellers were holding out for a higher price -- in other words, neig [...]
Arcadia Terrace short sale asking 38% of last sale price
A 2-bedroom, 1-bath condo at 2454 W Ardmore Ave in Arcadia Terrace has been serially reduced in price from $119,000 when it was listed in March to [...]
Visit a Humboldt Park open house and make a drug buy
A recently-listed new construction home at 910 N Richmond Ave in Humboldt Park is holding an open house this Sunday, October 16, from 11 AM to 12 [...]
Ninety percent sold in Avondale, thirty percent still available
Three units in a newer 10-unit Avondale condo, at 3952 W Eddy, are listed for sale in the MLS, and one of those units describes the building as [...]
Old Irving Park’s Race House now also listed for rent
The Race House, a Chicago landmark at 3945 N Tripp in Old Irving Park has been on and off the market for just over 4 years.
The 4-level home h [...]
Tour a new single-family home in Old Irving
New construction in the mid-$700s in Chicago's Old Irving neighborhood has been a scarce item, and scarcer still in a walk-to-transit location.
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Loving the dogs in Independence Park
It was one of those afternoons in Independence Park where the thing to do was to spend some time trying to pay back your dog's love. This gal was [...]
Rental spotlight – 3/3 at Confetti Place in Albany Park
Prudential Rubloff's Eric Rojas called our attention to a spacious duplex down at the Confetti Place condo that's not yet in the MLS.
The 3-bed [...]
Bell and Coonley – market updates by school district
Over at his lively Chicago Real Estate Local blog, Prudential Rubloff's Eric Rojas has been surveying home prices in sought-after "buzz" elementar [...]
Humboldt Park, real estate sites and the real world
Real estate brokerage sites typically feature upbeat overviews of Chicago's neighborhoods. The articles often appear to have been authored on a lo [...]
Avondale, one of YoChicago’s hottest neighborhoods of 2006
We're taking a brief look at the state of each of the eight neighborhoods we spotlighted as Chicago's hottest back in June of 2006. We've already [...]
$450K on Elston – what happened here?
It's difficult enough to fathom how anyone would spend $450,000 for a garden-variety 3-bedroom condo in the 3700 block of Elston Ave. It's beyond [...]
A 3,000 square-foot oddity in Oriole Park, priced at $539K
This squat stone turret of a home doesn't look like most of its Norwood Park neighbors, or anything other single-families that went on the market [...]
Rental deal of the day: $200 move-in bonus for a remodeled 2BR in Belmont Cragin
Today's deal from Chicago Rentals Direct is a sun-filled two-bedroom / one-bath apartment at 2005 N Laporte Ave in Belmont Cragin that features n [...]
Rental deal of the day: An updated Albany Park 2BR for $1,025 a month
Today's deal from Chicago Rentals Direct is an updated two-bedroom / one-bath apartment in Albany Park, priced at $1,025 a month.
The apartmen [...]
New 3-bedroom extra-wide Avondale condos
The newly-built 5-unit condo at 3543 W Belmont in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood has three simplex and two duplex units.
All of the units are [...]
A touch of Puerto Rico on the northwest side
I was on my way to a video shoot when I passed this unusual home and stopped to take a few shots.
Carlos, the creator of this environment, [...]