Home loan interest rates have dipped for five straight weeks, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage now at 6.67 percent.

(Above) Illustration by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill showing current use of John Hancock Center’s 94th floor by 360 Chicago, plus two additional levels that are planned. (Click on image to view larger ...

(Above) Dining/Great Room of an Airbnb in Old Town. Interior photos by Andrew Charles Miller. (Click on images to view larger versions.) By Don DeBat Jun. 4, 2025 – Managers and hosts of short-term ...

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 ...

By Steven Dahlman May 1, 2025 – Jewelry and designer leather goods valued at $40,300 were taken from a condominium unit at John Hancock Center in March, according to a police report, but the thief may ...

(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 ...

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 ...