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2026

• Single stair would benefit Chicago families and make infill easier — Mar. 30
• Early April dates to know: ADU goes permanent, ChiBlockBuilder opens, and more — Mar. 27
• New in Q1 2026: redesigned Property Finder, PD summaries, and more — Mar. 25
• Planned Development summaries make it easy to know what's allowed — Mar. 12
• The Chicago zoning code's two new ways to convert retail to residential — Mar. 3
• Mapping the news: 11 years of Chicago development coverage — and the gaps — Feb. 27
• 3D Building Visualizer: see what Chicago’s zoning code allows — Feb. 10
• Find large developable sites, even if they’re subdivided into many parcels — Feb. 2
• Our improved analytics shows high variability in Chicago building & construction activity — Feb. 1
• New ZBA search: find decisions by applicant, relief requested, and more — Jan. 19
• New: Manage your team yourself and get colleagues onboarded faster — Jan. 18
• Local developers and business owners got their zoning assessments from Chicago Cityscape via Elevated Works — Jan. 14

2025

• More proactive upzonings have been added to the Chicago zoning map — Dec. 22
• What to know about Chicago’s permanent ADU ordinance — Dec. 1
• Chicago eliminates parking requirements across most of the city — Nov. 11
• Elect people who will reduce the housing shortage — Sep. 3
• New in Q2: proactive upzoning maps for Chicago home builders — Aug. 4
• City Council reduced parking mandates in a big way today — Jul. 16
• 11 legislation updates for zoning, land use, and housing legalization proposals in 2025 — Jun. 30
• Chicago-owned land buying opportunities in spring 2025 — Apr. 20
• 18 improvements made in the first quarter of 2025 — Apr. 20
• Climate Action Museum: Chicago’s answer to ‘what can I actually do?’ — Apr. 3
• Springfield’s solutions for the shortage of housing in Illinois — Mar. 13
• Lake County + Lake County + other new features — Jan. 2

2024

• Preview the zoning & other ordinances proposed in December ‘24 — Dec. 4
• Our development map now extends beyond Cook County — Nov. 17
• ChiBlockBuilder’s next round closes on Friday, 11/15 — Nov. 9
• 20 new and updated features in 2024 Q3 — our biggest this year — Oct. 3
• Northwest Preservation Ordinance is in effect in a large area around the 606 — Sep. 25
• Property sales updated for Q2 + revamped analytics — Aug. 1
• Chicago’s elected school board districts are now on Chicago Cityscape — Jul. 8
• Picks: properties with good development characteristics + 8 more Q2 changes — Jul. 2
• Chicago appears to be in the home stretch for citywide ADU expansion — Jun. 19
• 10 new features: Properties for sale, Express permits, recordings AND more — May. 11
• Property sales — 2024 Q1 update — May. 6
• New round of Chicago-owned lots goes up for sale through ChiBlockBuilder — Apr. 4
• Video: Tour an all-electric home with Ald. Andre Vasquez — Mar. 29
• An all-electric apartment building opens on the Near West Side — Mar. 12
• Get a heads up on new developments with Pending Permits — Mar. 10
• Five electric homes events in February and March — Feb. 7
• Wrapped! But for Chicago building permits — Jan. 24

2023

• Our biggest update ever: 19 new and updated features — Dec. 27
• Video: Tour a new construction coach house in Lakeview — Nov. 22
• New round of ChiBlockBuilder properties & applications opens — Nov. 4
• Washington is offering below-market interest rates for privately-funded TOD projects — Nov. 3
• We made something for every member in summer 2023 — Oct. 25
• Tax-exempt property owner names are now part of our platform — Sep. 26
• Exploration: How a “Standard 8-3” could be designed and built today — Aug. 10
• Updates across the board: Incentives Checker, transit projects, zoning, brownfields, and Indiana — Jul. 13
• Chicago deploys its first TDM requirements for new construction in rail station TOD areas — Jun. 19
• ADU citywide expansion ordinance introduced to new City Council — May. 25
• Designers, lenders, and city staff gather to discuss current, future ADU policy — Apr. 25
• 🏗️ Behind the trend of converting commercial space to housing — Apr. 13
• I think it's fair to compare because big box stores don't have to be built that way if cities don't… — Apr. 12
• Ten big changes we made in 2023 Q1 — Apr. 3
• What’s good in the neighborhood? — Mar. 28
• Chicago’s modular, electric house industry welcomes Inherent Homes — Jan. 26
• Chicago Cityscape's 2022 rankings — Jan. 18
• Ten new features to start 2023 — Jan. 4

2022

• "Connected Communities" re-legalizes six-unit houses on standard size lots — Dec. 22
• Construction update: Office high-rise, a coach house, bus lanes, basement ADUs, a boozy shake restaurant, St. Boniface, and Guinness — Dec. 13
• Chicago launches new map to consolidate vacant land sale programs — Nov. 29
• Estimate the number of dwelling units allowed at any Chicago parcel, regardless of current zoning — Nov. 22
• Chicago wants to fund new housing & retail on LaSalle Street — Oct. 26
• 10 features for summer 2022 — Sep. 23
• Introducing Playbooks: Guides to help make your job easier — Sep. 15
• Chicago will support new development at the Kedzie Green Line station with land sale — Aug. 2
• The new TOD ordinance in 2022 — summarized — Jul. 25
• Property sales in 2022 Q2 are less than 2021 Q2 — Jul. 18
• Add Cityscape to your development toolbox — apply for a free membership — Jul. 15
• Read these case studies on how Data Equity Cohort members use Cityscape — May. 26
• The new Chicago Park District headquarters is under construction — May. 8
• The 2022 scavenger sale results are in — Apr. 28
• 12 features for spring 2022 — Mar. 28
• What’s up in the West Loop: Cranes — Mar. 16
• ADU permits trickling in spring 2022 — Mar. 16
• Chicago’s first two-unit modular house is constructed — more are on the way — Mar. 8
• Apply for this new property tax incentive by March 31 — Feb. 9
• Efficiently find and prospect Scavenger Sale properties — Jan. 27
• The next Scavenger Sale starts in February 2022 — Jan. 19
• Data Equity Cohort at the midpoint: recent progress + future improvements — Jan. 5

2021

• Podcast: Spotting Chicago development trends and opportunities — Dec. 30
• Cityscape’s Top 12 stories in 2021 — Dec. 27
• Chicago hits 21 ADU permits in 2021 — Dec. 15
• This architecture firm is doing the most ADU projects right now — Nov. 17
• Bickerdike plans to expand service area, to develop more eTOD — Nov. 15
• Where the new construction hotspots in Chicago are — Nov. 4
• Six ADU permits have been issued since May 2021 — Oct. 18
• Where the new state-enacted property tax incentive applies — Sep. 21
• Cityscape has the maps you need to locate where new ARO rules apply — Sep. 11
• What does the 2020 Census data tell us about Chicago and Chicagoans? — Aug. 24
• Chicago wants to sell four parking lots it owns on the North Side — Aug. 10
• Chicago might allow cannabis dispensaries in more zoning districts — Aug. 5
• The first three Obama Presidential Center permits were issued — Jul. 21
• Hi Shelly, the Chicago Department of Housing has a staff that ensures compliance with the ARO. — Jun. 24
• Cityscape receives grant to launch a “Data Equity Cohort” — Jun. 17
• See if you have a new electoral district in 2022 with adopted redistricted maps — Jun. 9
• 110 property owners have told City Hall they intend to build an ADU — May. 11
• New maps, data, and filters were added for affordable housing developers and advocates — Apr. 28
• Find historical imagery for Cook County addresses — Apr. 27
• See Carmin’s future backyard ADU — Mar. 27
• A new “off-site” ARO townhouse development opens on the West Side — Mar. 26
• Newly approved demolition fee pilot program is a positive step to stem the loss of 2 to 4 flats — Mar. 24
• Chicago developers are constructing bigger wood residential buildings due to changes in the code — Mar. 2
• Use new Cityscape tools to grow your ADU business — Jan. 19
• Cityscape maps updated to reflect new Illinois legislators — Jan. 14
• Outside the Loop radio shows talks about backyard houses with Chicago Cityscape — Jan. 2

2020

• Cityscape’s Top 12 stories of 2020 — Dec. 23
• Chicago’s ADU ordinance explained in a 4-minute video — Dec. 21
• Chicago will allow ADUs starting in May — Read our FAQ — Dec. 15
• City Council to review revised ADU ordinance to apply in pilot areas only — Dec. 12
• A better ADU rule has the potential to build lower-cost houses on vacant land — Dec. 11
• Take a tour: Chicago’s first modular house is move-in ready — Dec. 3
• Chicago prepares a deconversion ban near the 606 — Dec. 2
• Chicago readies two North Lawndale sites for sale and redevelopment — Nov. 30
• Mapping investments in INVEST South/West areas — Nov. 3
• Is COVID-19 affecting Chicago building permits? — Oct. 13
• Commentary: I want an ADU, but the RS-2 exclusion would prevent me from building one — Sep. 8
• Filling a zoned “Pedestrian Street” gap will bring TOD benefits to more blocks — Aug. 29
• Get a look at new basement ADUs in Bronzeville + 2 other projects — Aug. 27
• The modular “starter house” in Back of the Yards was assembled — Aug. 24
• Ask Cityscape: Could I build two ADUs at my house? — Jul. 26
• Here’s what ADU supporters told City Council at the first hearing — Jul. 16
• Chicago’s ADU ordinance gets a hearing date — Jul. 2
• Coach houses & basement units will add more housing options, but will they be affordable? — May. 20
• Chicago’s ADU ordinance was introduced — see what you could build — May. 19
• Chicago’s future ADU ordinance should learn from other cities’ mistakes — May. 7
• New zoning rules adopted last week — Apr. 29
• Ordinance would change approval rules for certain industrial uses — Apr. 27
• Prefab “starter home” is under construction, destined for a vacant lot in Back of the Yards — Apr. 22
• Here’s how 3 real estate industry women are adapting to COVID-19 — Apr. 14
• See what’s in the development pipeline — Apr. 1
• Chicago Cityscape turns 6 — Mar. 29
• New data: How many Airbnbs are in your neighborhood — Mar. 25
• Ask your alder to support ADUs — Mar. 17
• Three North Side “Pedestrian Streets” are being combined — Mar. 17
• Make informed decisions by using your own boundaries — Mar. 15
• Make informed decisions by mixing your data with Cityscape’s — Mar. 15
• Chicago’s vacant land problem — Mar. 6
• Metra should add a new station in Humboldt Park — Feb. 26
• Legalize ADUs across Illinois, lawmaker’s bill says — Feb. 20
• The one Chicago guidebook you need to read this year — Feb. 12
• Work in industrial real estate? Chicago Cityscape does, too — Jan. 29
• 606 demolition ordinance moves forward after changes, while Andersonville downzoning is rejected — Jan. 8
• Let’s keep ADUs in the 2020 news — Jan. 7
• Cityscape Pro is now available for 1, 2, and 3 month terms — Jan. 4

2019

• City-owned land in downtown Chicago is for sale through a sustainable development competition — Dec. 30
• I think there’s enough data in the raw form (that you can download from the ARO dashboard) to… — Dec. 27
• Recreational pot sales start in 13 days — Dec. 18
• Two South Side community hubs are moving forward with investment from Benefit Chicago — Nov. 14
• Where the ARO units are — Nov. 7
• Where are the cannabis disproportionately impacted areas? — Oct. 30
• Use Chicago Cityscape to find affordable housing developments — Oct. 12
• Why not allow cannabis dispensaries downtown? — Oct. 11
• Get to know 7 newly proposed land use, business, and zoning ordinances — Sep. 18
• Proposal: Put an eligible house into the Chicago land trust to lower its taxes — Sep. 11
• Illinois wants you to build solar panels — Aug. 21
• New chief planner coming to Chicago + new data has come to Cityscape — Aug. 16
• New Places: Illinois State Police districts — Jul. 30
• Yes, it’s possible to map city-owned vacant lots with minimum dimensions, but since the dimensions… — Jul. 26
• Three potential changes to the transfer tax in Chicago — Jul. 26
• Redeveloping 900 vacant lots — Jul. 24
• Enhance your research with the latest property tax data — Jul. 19
• New Housing commissioner talks about aldermanic privilege — Jun. 26
• Legalizing recreational marijuana: There’s a map for that — Jun. 5
• Apartments & condos are banned in most of Chicago — May. 14
• Hoop house, helicopter ride, and the new building code — May. 8
• Chicago adopts a new building code — Apr. 10
• Workshop for architecture-curious students seeks next client for an office makeover — Apr. 10
• 20 new features in the last year — Apr. 3
• Ask Cityscape: What’s the difference between the Loop and the Central Business District? — Mar. 29
• Member spotlight: Garfield Park Community Council — Mar. 27
• Oak Park adopts a TOD and inclusionary housing rule — Mar. 20
• Find Illinois medical cannabis districts — Mar. 13
• Discover a little Chicago history with 80 Acre maps — Mar. 12
• Find Opportunity Zones in a given town or ZIP code in Illinois — Mar. 9
• See who applies for the most zoning changes in Chicago — Mar. 9
• What a local architecture firm thinks Chicago coach houses could look like — Mar. 7
• Where are coach houses in Chicago — Mar. 4
• More reasons to support re-legalizing coach houses & ADUs in Chicago — Feb. 5
• See who bought which properties in Cook County last year — Feb. 5
• Chicago’s TOD ordinance now applies to areas around certain bus routes — Jan. 27
• Indicate your support for coach houses — Jan. 17
• Find investable property in local Opportunity Zones — Jan. 9

2018

• Explore Chicago development using our redesigned homepage — Dec. 27
• We’re adding new amenities to your Address Snapshots monthly — Dec. 24
• Most popular stories of 2018 — Dec. 19
• These are the 2019 candidates who support legalizing ADUs in Chicago — Dec. 10
• Chicago may adopt a pro-ADU policy — Dec. 5
• Emanuel supports legalizing coach houses — Dec. 4
• hey, now, we use staple bike racks in Chicago in both directions — it depends on their installed… — Dec. 3
• Adding units to your house? You may not have to build more parking — Nov. 30
• Fall 2018 changes to the ARO Pilot Areas — Nov. 30
• Summary of fall 2018 TIF district changes — Nov. 29
• What are your Chicago housing design ideas? — Nov. 28
• Emanuel closing five TIF districts early — Nov. 26
• What sets Cityscape apart from other sites — Nov. 14
• City selling former CPS schools for new affordable housing — Nov. 14
• Optimize your site selection with Cityscape’s incentives tools — Nov. 7
• Local affordable housing developer is first to build a multi-family Passive House — Oct. 24
• Long-vacant land in Bridgeport has a new proposal — Oct. 21
• Three of Chicago’s reused fire stations are in Edgewater — Oct. 14
• Proposed: Kinzie PMD would change to allow more office space east of Ashland, but still no housing — Oct. 10
• Everyone running for mayor needs to adopt this transportation platform — Sep. 26
• Looking at properties? See how many supermarkets & other amenities are near — Sep. 19
• Site Locator solves two zoning problems for business and property owners — Aug. 30
• How much are Large Lot owners paying in property taxes? — Aug. 22
• Next Jefferson Park veterans housing meeting will be a virtual one — Aug. 9
• Oak Park allows coach houses! — Aug. 1
• Barriers to building reuse in Chicago — Jul. 25
• This is the first I’ve heard of the TaxSmart program! — Jul. 20
• City Council members have their own affordable housing proposals — Jul. 18
• Emanuel’s nine recent affordable housing initiatives — Jul. 11
• Emanuel & the Preservation Compact propose new loan fund to increase the affordable housing stock… — Jul. 2
• Proposed: Planned Developments with affordable housing in wards with little of it should be… — Jun. 29
• Topical maps help you find developable property in Chicago — Jun. 27
• Look up how much of your property taxes are going into a TIF district — Jun. 13
• How do the proposed Opportunity Zones line up with gentrifying areas? — Jun. 11
• Buy single Address Snapshot reports and get the same insights as a Pro member — Jun. 7
• Now on the map: Proposed Opportunity Zones intend to spur investment in low-income areas — May. 29
• Mayor, Moreno, and Maldonado propose a new repair & upgrade ordinance for houses near the 606 — May. 25
• I used “was redlined” as a past tense phrase to refer to the time that my neighborhood was marked… — May. 17
• Aurora homeowners pay a higher effective property tax rate than those in Chicago — May. 14
• The majority of people responding to this post (either privately or on Twitter) have said that… — May. 11
• Which generates more property taxes: A big box store or a dense building? — May. 7
• How energy efficient is your building? — Apr. 26
• Bring back the coach houses — Apr. 19
• New: Zoning maps for six municipalities — Apr. 12
• Housing production in Chicagoland is below half the peak in 2005 — Apr. 10
• The number of 2-4 flat buildings in Cook County is at an historic low — Apr. 9
• Manage your email notifications — Apr. 6
• Flood Guidance expanded to DuPage and Will Counties — Apr. 5
• Is your building on Chicago’s historic resources map? — Mar. 20
• Trump’s 2019 budget would slash funding to build, maintain, and upgrade affordable housing in… — Mar. 11
• Why brokers should use Chicago Cityscape — Mar. 6
• I have no doubt, either, that a zoning and land use plan will be put forth. — Mar. 5
• Speculative development: Will Obama Center visitors actually be able to visit a restaurant across… — Mar. 4
• Our zoning map is current, including changes adopted through February 2018 — Mar. 2
• Are you eligible for a discount? — Mar. 1
• Are we cut out to deal with all this vacant land in Cook County? — Mar. 1
• Professional services grant is being offered to three neighborhood business districts — Feb. 25
• “How long will a zoning change take?” gets an answer — Feb. 22
• Property data updated for 2016 tax year — Feb. 12
• View historical aerial imagery when you look up an address in Cook County — Feb. 8
• Two city-owned sites are part of a global development competition — Feb. 1
• 4-flat in Logan Square needs a zoning change to replace a 2-flat — Jan. 31
• Hyde Park graystone is being retrofitted for “Passivhaus” certification + neighborhood news — Jan. 25
• Full story: Take a walk through an old Hyde Park graystone being retrofitted for “Passivhaus”… — Jan. 25
• Is your property in a flood area? — Jan. 11
• 2017 year in review: 2.9% increase in Chicago building permits — Jan. 4

2017

• Many small business improvement grant opportunities in Chicago close on Jan. 5 — Dec. 22
• Zoning near the 606 allows less housing density than historically allowed — Dec. 21
• All our latest changes: new map styles, download maps in new formats, and more — Dec. 4
• What you need to know about the ARO pilot areas — Nov. 25
• Pro membership sale through Monday — Nov. 23
• Two developers need zoning changes for separate Avondale housing proposals — Nov. 16
• New tool automatically analyzes the zoning map in any part of Chicago — Nov. 14
• Landmarks commission still threatening fines if house in historic district isn’t worked on once… — Nov. 9
• Restrictive, single family-only zoning district actually allows 2-flats under extreme conditions — Nov. 9
• It’s illegal to build apartments in most of Avondale, Logan Square — Nov. 9
• CTA proposes redevelopment plan for after Belmont bypass work — Oct. 26
• How many datasets does Cityscape use? — Oct. 17
• City Council approves Large Lots sale — Oct. 12
• Cedar Street converting old Loop office tower to apartments; state must track food deserts — Oct. 12
• City plans to use vacant lots to manage stormwater — Oct. 11
• Obama library’s negative effects are debatable — Oct. 5
• How does Chicago land Amazon’s HQ2? — Oct. 3
• Opportunity for small and local developers on the South and West Sides closes Oct. 9 — Sep. 28
• No support for a zoning change that could drastically increase affordable supply in Old Town and… — Sep. 25
• City moves to begin negotiations to acquire Jeffery Plaza — Sep. 25
• “Amazon HQ2 should be a 3-phase “city” in the West Loop” — Sep. 21
• Amazon’s HQ2: All the takes for Chicagoans to read — Sep. 19
• A critique of Chicago community areas, as a method of bounding people & space — Sep. 18
• 4 towers will soon replace the Tribune’s former distro center on the Chicago River — Sep. 7
• Map: Chicago is selling 952 more Large Lots for $1 to adjacent neighbors — Sep. 7
• $100,000 is available to activate areas around seven CTA stations — Sep. 5
• Has the Mayor proposed a competing anti-gentrification regulation for Logan Square? — Aug. 31
• Great idea, Erik! — Aug. 28
• Ask Cityscape: Where do your “neighborhood” maps come from? — Aug. 23
• Ask Cityscape: How often is our data updated? — Aug. 23
• Alder Lopez proposes mass downzoning in West Englewood — Aug. 23
• New documentary about Bronzeville and Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics — Aug. 23
• The latest building permits activity report — August 2017 — Aug. 19
• Jefferson Park affordable housing advocates aren’t giving up — Aug. 17
• Proposed: 30-story tower in Pilsen, and maker space social club in Avondale — Aug. 10
• Say hello to building permits from Naperville, Illinois’s fifth largest city — Aug. 9
• Keep track of your Cityscape research — Aug. 8
• Details emerge on Kiferbaum’s latest Logan Square housing development — Aug. 7
• Youth protest a change of plans in multi-unit development — Aug. 3
• Contentious land in Pilsen and South Shore — Jul. 20
• Public meetings for the North Branch redevelopment ordinance announced — Jul. 5
• What is the “character” of your block? — Jul. 4
• “City Gardens”, a CHA mixed-income development, has grand opening — Jun. 29
• North Branch Industrial Corridor would dissolve, revert to previous zoning districts under proposed… — Jun. 28
• Quickly map a list of PINs — Jun. 27
• A shipping container market opened in Bronzeville last night — Jun. 22
• I really love this app and the outcomes. — Jun. 15
• What is CPS going to do with additional closed schools? — Jun. 15
• Eyes in the air: Wilson ‘L’ station — Jun. 13
• Zoning change needed to add 42 units in two buildings in Rogers Park — Jun. 11
• Downzoning to residential-only would affect existing businesses — Jun. 8
• New Property Finder is a powerful tool to locate developable land in Cook County — Jun. 7
• Chicago Infrastructure Trust looking for a developer to build and finance a new fleet maintenance… — Jun. 4
• City selects buyer for former fire station in Rogers Park — Jun. 1
• New ordinance intends to hold back gentrification around the 606 using higher demolition and… — May. 31
• Is DPD going to move to landmark these buildings so that they’re protected from being demolished? — May. 26
• Alder Thompson proposes a mass downzoning in Bridgeport — May. 25
• The news is heavy on affordable housing — May. 25
• The slowest zoning change approved this year took 714 days — May. 21
• Questions future Large Lots owners have — May. 20
• “More research needed” to find ways to reduce vacant property — May. 18
• CMAP’s new housing strategy paper sets up future recommendations for the region — May. 18
• New housing is on the Plan Commission agenda today — May. 18
• Cook County TIF district maps added — May. 15
• Will Alder Moore call a vote for Keeping The Promise ordinance? — May. 11
• Keep track of proposed zoning changes automatically — May. 2
• South Shore alder has proposed a massive downzoning to prevent all new businesses — Apr. 30
• Large Lots program has now determined applicants’ eligibilities — Apr. 28
• Woodlawn is all over the news this week — Apr. 27
• Pro members can now track contractors more efficiently — Apr. 25
• We are turning three years old next month — Apr. 20
• Fewer new housing permits in Chicago in January and February this year versus last — Apr. 19
• By-right proposal for Rogers Park for a small apartment building — Apr. 18
• After these two announcements, solar installation in Chicago will increase — Apr. 13
• What does Singapore have on Chicago? — Apr. 12
• While BART cannot copy MTR 1:1 due to their unique arrangements of authority, it has those parking… — Apr. 10
• A notable zoning change application that shouldn’t be notable — Apr. 10
• GSA finally selling State Street buildings it bought 12 years ago but didn’t use — Mar. 23
• Use Cityscape to see if your property is eligible for grants or tax relief — Mar. 20
• Architects join Chicago River ideas lab — Mar. 16
• Use new FormWork app to fill out building permit applications faster — Mar. 14
• Chicago bans apartments & condos on too much land of the land around CTA stations — Mar. 14
• Now everyone can create a Personal Place — Mar. 9
• Higher home sale prices near 606, and there might be higher demolition fees soon — Mar. 9
• Speculative development: What should the city do with the vacant land it owns next to the future Damen Green Line station? — Mar. 6
• Find out more about any contractor working in Chicago than ever before — Mar. 3
• Quickly download community data for any part of Chicago — Mar. 2
• Easily check food inspection results for any Chicago restaurant and grocery store — Feb. 28
• Where to find Chicago neighborhood news — Feb. 25
• There will be way more than $4 million in the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund soon — Feb. 24
• City’s “Neighborhood Opportunity Fund” has now collected $4 million from downtown developers — Feb. 23
• New tweak: Zoning history for any Chicago building has been clarified — Feb. 19
• After Uptown historic district created, city asks developer to revise a proposed building design — Feb. 17
• Moving a music venue is a great way to teach Chicago’s complex zoning rules — Feb. 16
• Speculative development: Awkward site next to Blue Line station that could become a miniature-TOD residence — Feb. 15
• Avondale is now a little more open to bars, breweries and packaged goods stores — Feb. 11
• Feb. 9th: Neighborhood news from Pullman, Pilsen, and more — Feb. 9
• 34 townhomes approved for vacant lot on Blue Island Ave. in Heart of Chicago — Feb. 8
• The zoning change for the Den Theatre’s remodeling plan in Wicker Park was approved — Feb. 8
• New 19-unit building proposed for busy Lincoln/Ashland/Belmont intersection — Feb. 8
• Rare for Lincoln Square: Upcoming teardown will increase density a little bit — Feb. 8
• Concrete “mat” poured for part of the Wanda Vista tower — Feb. 4
• Neighborhood news — February 2, 2017 — Feb. 2
• Cook County Land Bank Authority launches massive sale of vacant properties — Feb. 1
• Our building permits data helped Crain's show the community areas with the most residential activity last year — Jan. 31
• False information was distributed in Rogers Park to derail a mixed-use proposal — Jan. 30
• We’ve added new pro-democracy features — Jan. 29
• Chicago neighborhoods that have experienced disinvestment don’t need saviors to recover — Jan. 27
• 29 schools for sale, but communities won’t be consulted about their reuse — Jan. 26
• I make a lot of maps of Chicago, and I always use EPSG 3435 (Illinois StatePlane East Feet). — Jan. 25
• These are the 10 most valuable properties in Chicago — Jan. 24
• The fourth chart really puts that initially-scary stat into perspective. — Jan. 23
• Find out when your property was annexed into Chicago or another municipality — Jan. 19
• Chicago neighborhood news — Jan. 19 — Jan. 19
• Quickly check a Chicago address’s “affordable housing in-lieu fee” — Jan. 18
• Thousands of $1 Large Lots haven’t been applied for — Jan. 16
• Three TIF districts were terminated at the end of 2016 — Jan. 13
• Neighborhood news for January 12 — Jan. 12
• Our property data now includes 2015 property tax information — Jan. 11
• Speculative development: What to build on a site where Edison Park residents rejected low-density housing — Jan. 9
• Neighborhood news — Jan. 5 — Jan. 5

2016

• Neighborhood news this week — December 29 — Dec. 28
• Cityscape helps Tribune get crane permits — Dec. 25
• Public transport in Germany is astonishing — Dec. 24
• This week’s neighborhood news — Dec. 22 — Dec. 22
• The CTA will raise over $600 million from this new type of TIF district — Dec. 18
• What we’re reading this week — Dec. 15 — Dec. 15
• Finkl Steel site sale closes while Alder Smith pushes for open space — Dec. 12
• Chicago has a law that defines where the “downtown area” and “Central Business District” are — Dec. 11
• What we’re reading this week — Dec. 8 — Dec. 8
• CycleBar, new senior housing, Teachers Village, and more developments you haven’t heard of yet — Dec. 6
• What we’re reading this week (December 1) — Dec. 1
• Speculative development: Here’s what you can build on your new $1 “Large Lot” — Nov. 29
• Developer wants a zoning change before constructing a new, bigger retail building — Nov. 23
• What you find digging through zoning change proposals — Nov. 22
• Six new neighborhood organizations added to our maps — Nov. 21
• R2 Companies’s shuffleboard proposal on deck for a zoning committee vote — Nov. 15
• TIF money available for small business improvement on North Side this month — Nov. 14
• We need to know more about renting in Chicago — Nov. 10
• Office development proposal in the West Loop needs YIMBY support — Nov. 9
• Oh, *that* building. — Nov. 8
• A bike park opens in Chicago’s Big Marsh wetland area — Nov. 7
• New features on Chicago Cityscape open up even more maps and data — Nov. 2
• I’m unfamiliar with many places you discuss. What are South Campus and University Park? — Oct. 31
• “getting information about the people/companies making these purchases” — Oct. 30
• Speculative development: What can you do with a 5,200 SF corner lot zoned C2–2 in Chicago? — Oct. 30
• New TOD residence permitted next to Grand Blue Line station — Oct. 29
• The CTA station with the most nearby new construction permits issued is… — Oct. 28
• Look at all that developable land — Oct. 27
• Finding “stop work orders” in Chicago — Oct. 25
• City approves new CTA car manufacturing plant near Hegewisch — Oct. 23
• #YIMBY meetings for the week of Oct. 24 — Oct. 23
• Displaying better TOD info — Oct. 23
• Mayor Emanuel said the new riverwalk spurred towers on Wolf Point — Oct. 20
• Here’s how to buy a city-owned vacant lot for $1 — Oct. 20
• The city’s best free festival is Open House Chicago — Oct. 17
• We redesigned our Place pages to show more demographic data — Oct. 17
• We redesigned our Census data and added more demographic info — Oct. 17
• It hadn’t crossed my mind that some cities don’t own their light poles! — Oct. 17
• Short stories about Chicago with “little” stats — Oct. 14
• A lot of calls are made to 311 to report vacant or abandoned buildings — Oct. 13
• An artist-developer in Chicago sensitive to developing on the South Side — Oct. 13