Billy Corgan’s selling one of his houses.
Tag: real estate
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Segregation and Foreclosure in Chicago
How segregation helped lay the groundwork for the foreclosure crisis.
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings concert announcements include Capitalist Casualties, the Chieftains, Gilberto Gil, Shellac, the Ex, Woods, and Real Estate.
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Alderman Maldonado follows through
Alderman Roberto Maldonado deserves some credit: he’s taken the first step toward fulfilling his promise to withdraw his application for a controversial zoning change on property he owns in his ward, the 26th. Now he’ll have to figure out what to do with the empty lots—which have been periodically overgrown with weeds and occupied by […]
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When editors are replaced by robots . . .
This is what happens when editors are replaced by robots.
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The average Chicago home looks like this
What the average Chicagoland home looks like.
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Reasonable conservatives and Hastert attack dogs
Grassroots right-wingers show civility to a dissenter who thinks Hastert should quit. Meanwhile Hastert blasts away at the messengers. Who’s showing leadership here?
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New lines in an old battle: the gentrification of Wicker Park
They’re tearing down some of the dilapidated old buildings in the working-class area out west of the Kennedy Expressway, on the near-northwest side, and putting up a bunch of spanking new town houses. A lot of old-timers have been offered five times the money they paid for their homes. The realtors and brokers are all […]