2/26/13
Anyone who wants to make an intelligent case for the “death of the suburbs” needs to confront the fact that more people, including young...
2/11/13
Chicago ranked 43nd among the 51 largest metro areas – four places behind Detroit – on an index of the health of its business...
2/6/13
YoChicago reached 53,686 unique visitors in January, a 22.4% increase over last January, and a new high, surpassing last April’s level. During calendar year...
1/25/13
This has been an eventful week in Chicago real estate. The Chicago Plan Commission approved the Wolf Point development. A new student housing high-rise...
1/8/13
Among the nation’s top 25 cities, Chicago ranks near the bottom in traffic fatalities per 1,000 people, and has a middling rank in the...
1/2/13
According to Google Analytics, the number of unique visitors to YoChicago during 2012 was up 24.7% over 2011, and 86.8% over 2010. We reached...
12/27/12
We’ve previously posted on the trend to micro-apartments. According to Multifamily Executive, one city is bucking the trend: Washington, D.C. is actually growing the...
12/19/12
The Illinois Real Estate License Act makes it illegal for real estate brokers to run blind ads, i.e. ads that don’t include the brokerage...
11/21/12
Almost a year ago we wondered whether Occupy Chicago was using the homeless as cannon fodder by encouraging them to occupy foreclosed homes. A...
11/9/12
I took the above photo almost exactly a year ago, not anticipating that New City would select the North Avenue Bridge as affording the...
11/5/12
Five years ago to the day today we posted the following quote: There is a tremendous unmet demand for smoke-free housing in America, and...
10/26/12
According to The Real Deal, New Yorkers renters and condo owners are bringing home a range of exotic pets, including “teacup pigs, wolves and...
10/22/12
Where do Chicagoans want to rent? Perhaps the best answer to that question comes via Google Analytics, which taps a database of intentions populated...
10/18/12
Back in July New York’s Mayor Bloomberg launched a competition to design and build “Micro-Units,” small apartments adapted to “how New Yorkers live today.”...
10/12/12
In the past four weeks I’ve spent a lot of time above Chicago, in the air and on high-rise and mid-rise roof decks. From...
10/4/12
Our local media have been taking pride in a recent US Census report (PDF) showing Chicago as the metro area with the largest numeric...
8/7/12
Advocates of the proposition that dense central cities are the way of the future have a few barriers to face – facts and consumer...
7/31/12
Sprawl appears to be winning the ongoing battle against urban sprawl, according to a recent post at Atlantic Cities: The exurbs – those deconcentrated...
7/9/12
It’s anecdotal data only, but what I’ve been hearing during the past month is that a number of major landlords have been reducing or...
7/2/12
Last week the Tribune reported on Census Bureau figures showing that Chicago and other major cities had gained population between 2010 and 2011, and...