By Don DeBat May 18, 2025 – A donnybrook is developing between landlords and tenants in Chicago’s highly competitive North Side apartment rental market. Some Chicago apartment renters are grumbling ...

Homes priced over $2 million and between $500,000 to $1 million reported increases while homes priced under $500,000 and between $1 million and $2 million had decreases. “It should be noted that the ...

(Above) Looking south down south branch of Chicago River in 2018. Wolf Point West at right. Photo by Sean Pavone. By Don DeBat Apr. 3, 2025 – Apartment hunters on the North Side of Chicago this spring ...

Landlords and managers say that the ordinance was rushed through the City Council with virtually no input from apartment owners and the real estate industry. The ordinance purports to “preserve ...

(Above) Rendering by HKS Architects of revised Bally’s casino and hotel being constructed along the Chicago River across from River North. By Don DeBat Mar. 16, 2025 – Professional gamblers are ...

(Above) David Byrne in 2018 (Wikimedia Commons). By Steven Dahlman Mar. 3, 2025 – An immersive theatrical experience that aspires to challenge perceptions and “reveal the brain’s inner mysteries” will ...

Bonanzaville is a pioneer village and history museum that focuses on North Dakota’s prairie past. More than 30 original and replica structures dot the campus, including homes, stores, church, saloon, ...

(Above) 534 West Division Street in the Cabrini-Green housing project, photographed in 1998 by Camilo J. Vergara (Library of Congress). By Don DeBat Feb. 14, 2025 – The Chicago Housing Authority is ...

Developer still faces uphill battle A survey by the Old Town Triangle Association – conducted before the latest proposal – showed that 80 percent of its members are opposed to the development. Old ...

Add a backstage tour. You’ll hear behind-the-scenes stories, see the private dressing rooms and lounge areas, view rare photographs and memorabilia, and stand on the very stage where a century of ...

By Don DeBat Jan. 29, 2025 – Chill Arctic winds may be blowing in Chicago in January, but Chicago’s North Side housing market posted a hot and vibrant fourth quarter in 2024. Despite the ongoing ...

By Don DeBat Dec. 28, 2024 – Gritty sand is starting to erode from under the City of Chicago’s shaky and unlawful so-called “anti-gentrification” ordinance. Pressured by the city’s powerful real ...