Tag: Video
Eat your heart out if you missed Oak Park’s Cookie Walk
A mere five bucks garnered participants in Oak Park's 4th Annual Cookie Walk a souvenir cookie tin, up to 54 free cookies available at downtown bu [...]
The Arts Center at Logan Square’s Hairpin Lofts
Why do so many artists call Logan Square home? A certain edginess, affordable rents, and good public transportation are part of the answer, but on [...]
172 Chicago homeless programs get $49M in HUD funds
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced yesterday that more than $49 million in funding has been renewed for 172 existing Chi [...]
A rehabbed single-family on Alta Vista Terrace for $850K
A developer has acquired the home at 3818 N Alta Vista Terrace – the "street of forty doors" – and drawn up plans to expand and renovate it.
Th [...]
Price drops 44% in 14 days on Jackson Park Highlands home
Talk about rapid-fire price reductions …
The 5-bedroom, 3-bath home at 6710 S Euclid Ave in Jackson Park Highlands came on the market November [...]
How Amli’s CEO views the downtown rental market
Abby Gallun from Crain's interviews AMLI Residential CEO's Greg Mutz on prospects for the downtown and suburban new construction rental markets in [...]
Quote of the day – Illinois intimidates good home inspectors
During the 25 years I've known him home inspector Tom Corbett has been a fierce, outspoken advocate for his clients, a posture that's made him few [...]
Video tours of Playboy Mansion condos
Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin takes you inside the largest unit at the Playboy Mansion, 1340 N State Pkwy, in the above video. The 7,874 squar [...]
WBEZ looks at Auburn Gresham’s identity
Kudos to Bill Healy and WBEZ for taking an extended look at Auburn Gresham, and introducing some of the people who contribute to the character of [...]
A Lake View studio model with character
450 West Melrose, in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood is a four-plus-one or, in the words of Planned Property's Dan McDonough, "a modern mid-rise [...]
Meet Charlie Zechel, a master cement finisher
The focus of work this week at K2 at K Station is completing site excavation and forming and pouring the basement walls of this new high-rise apar [...]
A drive down the Non-magnificent Mile
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 Pullm [...]
YoChicago’s most popular videos for the last 30 days
YoChicago's videos at YouTube were watched more than 55,000 times during the past 30 days. Our video at the Home Alone house, featured above, rece [...]
A large, character-laden South Loop loft
When you think of a loft you conjure sunlit sprawling spaces with high ceilings, exposed brick, and a lot of character. Too often all you find is [...]
Affordable artist live / work lofts in Logan Square
The landmark Morris Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee Ave in Logan Square has been transformed into Hairpin Lofts, a community resource where Log [...]
Specialists to Lathrop residents – no Mau-mauing the flak catchers
I have to admit that I couldn't bear to watch the whole thing, although I did manage to skip about through several minutes of this relentlessly "o [...]
Greenview Gardens, a Rogers Park condo price collapse
I stopped by Greenview Gardens in Rogers Park, 7633 – 39 N Greenview, to check the condition of the building.
What prompted my visit was a ste [...]
Tower crane trivia at K2
I spent some time yesterday chatting with Marie, an 18-year veteran crane operator, who will be half of the team running the tower crane at K2 at [...]
Erecting the tower crane at K2 at K Station
A well-run high-rise construction site is an amazing scene, buzzing with a variety of activities, with massive amounts of material arriving consta [...]
Is Chicago ready for speed roommating ?
It's called "speed flatmating" in London, and The Telegraph describes how it works:
This is the property world's version of speed-dating. Peopl [...]