Tag: West Town
River West apartment towers take a step forward
The rezoning of the former Gonnella Baking site at 1001 W Chicago in River West is one of the items on the Chicago Plan Commission's agenda at its [...]
Stylish new condos in a fun stretch of West Town
Grand Avenue in West Town has a lively restaurant and bar scene, convenient public transportation, grocery shopping nearby and the beginnings of a [...]
Slim pickings on an East Village apartment hunt
I drove part of the East Village neighborhood yesterday looking for FOR RENT signs, and found only three. One was from a known scammer, another h [...]
Condo sales, prices surge in West Town
West Town is one of Chicago's 77 official Community Areas, but it's not a neighborhood name that many will recognize.
West Town encompasses a [...]
Checking out the roof at 914 West Hubbard
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily recently reported that a 24-unit apartment building at 914 W Hubbard in West Town had been refinanced with a $6. [...]
From the archives – revisiting a West Town condo
Exactly five years ago today we wrote about a six-unit condo development at 2701 W Chicago Ave in West Town. The broker was touting it as "one of [...]
LEED Platinum home back on the market in West Town
The 3-bedroom plus den, 2 ½ bath home at 1404 W Ohio St in West Town is LEED Platinum certified. As you'd expect, the LEED certification implies a [...]
Work underway on East Village “tower of Pizza Hut”
Caisson drilling has begun on the southwest corner of Ashland and Division in East Village.
An 11-story tower housing 2 floors of commercial sp [...]
Pete’s breaking ground six months after its groundbreaking
Six months ago, several weeks after the ceremonial groundbreaking for a new Pete's Fresh Market, there was no sign of activity at the site, at the [...]
Should you go condo or single-family in Humboldt Park?
Two Humboldt Park new listings slid into our email inbox over the weekend, a 2-bedroom, 2-bath condo asking $299,900 and a 4-bedroom 3 ½ bath sing [...]
Tour a brick 3-flat with an owner’s duplex in West Town
Nicholas Apostal from the The Apostal Group of Coldwell Banker takes us on a sponsored video tour of a condo alternative with income!
This wel [...]
Two straight lines in Chicago housing report
Compiling market statistics in Chicago neighborhoods has usually meant looking at a lot of jagged (and mostly downward-pointing) lines over the la [...]
Lincoln Park, West Town condo sellers holding out for price – and getting it
Owners of condominiums and single family homes in one of Chicago's priciest neighborhoods, Lincoln Park, have not, on average, settled for lower s [...]
A new West Town 3-bedroom, 2-bath in the mid-$200s
Condo prices slowly fall as you head further west along Chicago Avenue in Chicago's West Town community area. By the time you reach the corner of [...]
How a Medill Reports article gets West Bucktown very wrong
One thing you should never do is accept at face value any report from a young journalist that analyzes data. Innumeracy and inapt comparisons seem [...]
$40K price drops at 755 North Paulina
We first wrote about the 12-unit development at 755 North Paulina back in December of 2008 and January of 2009, noting that construction was compl [...]
A double-wide double-high in the city
Kudos to Curbed Chicago for finding this fascinating video of a modular home being assembled in a single day on a West Town site.
Modular const [...]
Rental deal of the day: A Near West Side 2 BR with gated parking, priced at $1,100
Today's deal from Chicago Rentals Direct is a 900 square-foot, two-bedroom / 1.5-bath apartment at 2335 W Lake St on the Near West Side, priced a [...]
One, two, three, or four bedrooms, all near $2,000 a month
The median list price for a downtown rental listed on the MLS is holding firm at $2,000. In the past week 38 different properties in downtown's 14 [...]
Take on a Studio Dwell project in West Town for $285K
A few years ago, Mark Boyer started tracking two nearly identical four-story three-flats planned for the 700 block of North Ada Street, just south of [...]