News Articles

This section includes reproductions of articles from various Chicago area publications.

  • The Unmaking of a Ghetto

    How the North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood came back from the grave.

  • Putting the 'Chic' back in Chicago

    FOR DECADES, THE AMERICAN DREAM has revolved around a ranch house on a spacious lot in the suburbs. Cities, once emblematic of the sophisticated good life, seemed dirty, crowded and dangerous. They were perceived as warehouses for the poor, dreary, dead-end places from whose mean streets anybody able to escape should. A lacework of expressways built with federal funds after World War II pointed the way out of the nation's metropolises. Government-insured mortgages enabled ex-GIs and their families to pioneer that route. Now, though, there's a new mantra about city living. It's a reprised anthem from the Jazz Age, when the bright lights of the country's urban hubs drew the hip and high-spirited.

  • Through The Roof

    As prices soar in hot neighborhoods, many owners find they couldn't buy their own home today.

  • Chicago Business Owners Tour the Quad Communities

    Quad Communities Parade of Retail Tour on August 2, 2007.