8/7/14
The concept of a “willing suspension of disbelief” is credited to Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the year 1817. Wikipedia summarizes it thus: … if...
7/9/14
We’re not talking about the so-called hipster invasion of Pilsen, nor are we resurrecting stale debates about the threat of gentrification. We’re merely relaying...
4/2/14
It’s been a while since we’ve checked on the status of the Union Row townhomes on 16th St in East Pilsen. You can join...
9/18/13
In the course of a typical month YoChicago stops at 100s of places in dozens of Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs. We don’t write about...
3/28/13
I’ve been a long-time skeptic of the oft-repeated hype that Pilsen is poised to be transformed into a haven dominated by students, artists, hipsters...
12/21/12
In the Christmas spirit, we offer you the final stanza of an old standard. Click here to play the tune. On the twelfth day...
10/16/12
You’ll be just around the corner from Pilsen‘s popular and colorful Nuevo Leon restaurant if you buy one of the recently-listed condos at 1533...
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...
5/1/12
Put 10 students from local universities in a 5-bedroom, 2-bath apartment at $700 a month each and you have a $7,000 a month rental...
12/22/11
The plans for several large new mixed-use / residential developments in Pilsen came to naught, but there is some significant construction on the horizon...
12/19/11
In the Christmas spirit, we offer you just the final stanza of this old standard. Click here to play the tune. On the twelfth...
6/15/11
The Trib is reporting that the US Environmental Protection Agency has moved to designate Pilsen as a community where people are breathing unhealthy levels...
6/13/11
For one Pilsen business owner, neighborhood change means that “no one is stealing my flowers.” A Schurz High School student sees Avondale as having...
5/19/11
From a Craigslist roommates ad: when shit comes your way, you make doo doo. . ..so I have 2 rooms for rent that are...
5/17/11
Transcribed from a Flickr photo linked from Steven Vance’s Steven Can Plan blog: White hipsters get out of Pilsen. You are gentrifying cultural communities,...
4/22/11
Every Good Friday, thousands of Pilsen residents turn out for a Stations of the Cross procession down 18th Street. Last year I met the...
3/3/11
One of the most-viewed videos on our YouTube channel this week in 2008 actually dates back to December 2006. It’s Joe Zekas’ take on...
2/8/11
Pilsen is very much a renter community (by an almost 3-to-1 margin over owners, according to past Census projections), so it’s not too surprising...
2/2/11
On Monday the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Department of Housing and Economic Development issued a request for qualifications for consultant teams to...
12/26/10
Santa and the elves from RAN Chicago visited City Hall before Christmas to bestow candy canes on aldermen who supported the Chicago Clean Power...