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• The state of retail in Bucktown

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  When the biggest gaps in your commercial market are the lack of good hotels and gyms, you know you’re in pretty good shape. In the final video from our Bucktown drive-around, @properties ‘ David Wolf and I talk about how the neighborhood’s retail has held up over the past two years and what types of ...
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• Bucktown Condo Building Wins Builder Magazine Project Of the Year

  
  Chicagoland Real Estate Forum — Authority: 130
  Glass and steel are a long-time Chicago real estate tradition. Urban developer Bob Ranquist has been melding the two materials in projects with a contemporary edge and his work has helped invigorate the city’s hip Bucktown neighborhood.  Much like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe did downtown, Randquist is putting his ...
  3 days ago

• The nearly news: Bucktown short sales

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  What do all four homes listed below have in common? They’re all located in Bucktown , they all sold for the first time in 2006, and they’re all available again for less than their original sale prices. Click on the links below to see the listings and locations for these “nearly new” short sales. Unit #401 ...
  3 days ago

• New construction opportunities in Bucktown

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  Even with today’s economic climate, a developer could succeed in Bucktown right now with the right type of single-family home, says @properties agent David Wolf . He talked about some of the opportunities open to home builders as we drove around the neighborhood last Wednesday.
  4 days ago

• The Single Family Home in the Perfect Bucktown Location: 1744 N. Wilmot

  
  Crib Chatter — Authority: 136
  This 4-bedroom single family home at 1744 N. Wilmot appears to be in a nearly perfect location in Bucktown. It is close, but not too close, to the Damen El line stop and is just a hop, skip and a stroll over to the restaurants and bars on Damen and Milwaukee. It is also on a cul de sac. Built in 1999, the home ...
  4 days ago

• What loft buyers should know about building repairs and special assessments

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  Scaffolding and construction dumpsters have been common sights outside of Wabansia Avenue’s loft buildings this year. As we stood outside some of these developments last week, I asked @properties agent David Wolf about the kinds of maintenance Bucktown ’s loft buildings tend to need, and how buyers can ...
  5 days ago

• A look at Bucktown’s lofts

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  With the completion of the Baer Lofts, it appears that the market for new adapted-reuse units in Bucktown has just about dried up. Because of that, @properties agent David Wolf and I focused mostly on lofts from the ’90s and early aughts during our neighborhood drive-around. We started off outside the ...
  6 days ago

• Touring Bucktown: Winchester Avenue’s single-family homes

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  Last Wednesday I spent the morning driving and walking around Bucktown with @properties agent David Wolf . Wolf’s name is a common sight on for-sale signs in the neighborhood, and he’s certainly no stranger to its streets — he’s both a resident of Bucktown and the vice president of the Wicker Park & ...
  1 week ago

• Agent Gallery storefront opens on Damen Avenue

  
  Strange Closets — Authority: 122
  Agent Gallery owner Mariano Chavez looks a little bored when I arrive to see his new storefront on a stretch of Damen Avenue near the border of Ukrainian Village and Wicker Park.  Home to a diverse population of yuppies, bobos, immigrants and hipsters, the neighborhood seems tailor-made for Mariano’s merchandise, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Comparing prices beyond boundaries in the North Side residential market

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  It’s not enough to compare one home in Roscoe Village to all the others in the neighborhood. As buyers on the North Side focus more on price point, Realtor Jenny Ames finds herself pulling together comps from as far north as Andersonville and as far south as Ukrainian Village . In this video, she talks about the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Back at Cheetah Gym

  
  rachelleb.com — Authority: 124
  A few years ago I used to live in East Ukrainian Village and was a member of Cheetah Gym in Bucktown . I was laid off when I joined and went every day, mostly just as something to do and to get me out of the house. Later that year, when Dallas and I moved to Roscoe Village , I quit the gym. It was too far away from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Belly Shack

  
  Chicago Foodies — Authority: 464
  Belly Shack , the follow-up act to the much-lauded Urban Belly , has arrived. Personally, I have been eagerly awaiting this opening ever since the news broke in July that Bill Kim had signed the lease for this space, right under the Western Blue line stop (rather than in a strip mall). Urban Belly put a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Personal Privilege

  
  Boutiqueville — Authority: 124
  2145 N. Damen, (773)727-9846, personalprivilege.com, myspace.com/personalprivilegeGoods: Trendy casual clothing and accessories for men and women. Owners: Celebrity stylist Tracy Lemke has created her own store, Personal Privilege, and she promises to dress you the way she’s dressed athletic superstars like White ...
  3 weeks ago

• Map Room International Night and Bon Bon Sandwiches

  
  Chicago Foodies — Authority: 464
  The Map Room is well-known for its draft beers and extensive bottle list, but their International Night on Tuesdays deserves plenty of recognition of its own. Each week is a trip around the world, as a local restaurant is chosen to cater international food. To get food, you simply need to purchase two drinks and get ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shark bites: devouring single-family homes in posh ‘hoods

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  If it’s a single-family home your hunting, the shark may have gotten there first. But you won’t mind taking what the he’s left behind. The information we get weekly from Matt Garrison ’s CondoShark.com represents value for buyers. Here are single-family homes from Bucktown, Lake View and Lincoln Park that ...
  4 weeks ago

• "Pub Stop" 8"x6" oil painting

  
  Susan Hong-Sammons — Authority: 111
  This is one of my favorite pub corners in Bucktown because it looks more like an old fashion corner shop. Maybe it was at one point in time. Can you believe I forgot to put in the type on the front sign?
  4 weeks ago

• Pie in the sky (over Bucktown)

  
  Metromix: The Blog — Authority: 505
  OK, Im a little biased because: 1) I love apple pie; and 2) I live in Bucktown. But the Bucktown Apple Pie contest is pretty cool regardless. Heres how it works: Show up at Holstein Park on Sunday around 2 p.m. Sample entries from 120 amateur pie makers (well, probably not all of them ... but you can try). See if ...
  4 weeks ago

• Next Stop: Thirty Turning Points, Apple Pie

  
  On Ramp — Authority: 131
  This Saturday, Andrew F. Smith, who teaches food studies at the New School University in Manhattan, will preside over a lecture about the construction of American Cuisine today. Sponsored by the Culinary Historians of Chicago, it takes place from 10am-12pm. RSVP here or call Barbara Olson at (708) 788-0338. Celebrate ...
  4 weeks ago

• Drive-Thru: Chocolate Potatoes Boggle the Mind, Bucktown Apple Pie Contest this Weekend, Jammin and the Best Slider Recipe Ever

  
  On Ramp — Authority: 131
  Cake Wrecks has pics up of their recent stop in Chicago as part of their book tour.When I saw this amazing recipe for chicken, apple and cheddar sliders, a tear rolled down my cheek. Joelen, you do something to me.Meet the Fearless Cook over at Drive-Thru.The Fruit Slinger takes in a major jam session--and Im not ...
  4 weeks ago

• Renaissance Interior Now in “Pre-Foreclosure”: 2015 W. Fullerton in Bucktown

  
  Crib Chatter — Authority: 136
  We’ve chattered about this 3-bedroom unit with its own private elevator at 2015 W. Fullerton in Bucktown twice before. See our last chatter and pictures in March 2009 here . Since it’s original listing in December 2008, the unit has been reduced $204,100 . The listing also now says it is a ...
  4 weeks ago

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