3/3/11
A slideshow from Dennis Rodkin shows off the latest round of Chicago Lawn homes to be rehabbed through HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Mercy Portfolio...
2/21/11
The Near West Side and East Garfield Park will move one step closer toward getting a much-needed grocery store next month, when Pete’s Fresh...
1/10/11
They used to say that you could swap a pair of 501s for a car in Prague. In Austin, you should be able to...
1/10/11
Mount Greenwood has never been Chicago’s best model of diversity, but the 2009 American Community Survey data do show signs of change amongst its...
1/7/11
Despite seeing thousands of white and African-American residents leave, the Southwest Side neighborhood of Garfield Ridge actually grew in size by a modest 1.5%...
1/6/11
There have been 114 home sales in North Lawndale over the past two years, and ninety-two of them were below $100,000, according to Redfin....
1/4/11
The Hispanic population of Humboldt Park fell by 4% in the past decade, dropping from 31,607 to 30,337, according to new Census data. But...
12/29/10
Joe Zekas’ Block 37 walk-through may have been the most-viewed video on our YouTube channel in 2010, but it actually dates back to late...
11/18/10
…and the West Side might not, either. This week, the city’s longest-serving black alderman submitted his resignation, effective at the end of November. In...
11/8/10
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing data and analysis to...
10/27/10
Ground has broken on the first phase of Park Douglas, a new 137-unit mixed-income development at 12th Place and Talman Avenue in North Lawndale...
10/6/10
Jump in the Yo-mobile and take a ride through Marycrest. Joe and Val Zekas drove through the residential and commercial parts of this 1990s...
10/5/10
I look at this listing and ask two questions: Why was someone building a 5,600 square-foot single-family home in West Garfield Park in 2008,...
9/21/10
What’s moving? Here are the top three closing prices for two-bedroom condos, single-families, and / or townhomes in each region of the city over...
8/25/10
Last week Frank Lloyd Wright’s old studio at 25 E Cedar St in the Gold Coast went on the market for $1.7 million. Wright...
7/20/10
What our staff said about East Garfield Park in 2007: The streets are still tough here, but the tide has started to turn in...
6/14/10
The Austin community area came in first among in foreclosures in 2009 and continues to be the leader of the pack going into this...
6/9/10
Participants in the Chicago Neighborhood Stabilization Program have spent the past year purchasing and rehabbing dozens of bank-owned buildings comprising almost 300 units on...
5/19/10
After running out of shops to look at along 26th Street, I spent the rest of my time in Little Village driving around some...
5/18/10
Join me for a drive west along 26th Street, the heart of commerce and community in the predominantly Mexican neighborhood of Little Village. The...