The Home Front

An investigation reveals significant misclassifications in Cook County property assessments, with many properties incorrectly valued or...

By Don DeBat Chicago home buyers may have to look at the housing market through long-range binoculars if they hope to see affordable...

Don & Chester DeBat at 1649 N. Halsted Garden late 1950s By Don DeBat Cabrini-Green has created lasting memories for many long-time Old...

(Above) Rendering by Pappageorge Haymes Partners of 57 West Oak Street. (Click on image to view larger version.) The Chicago City...

A building on North Hudson Avenue at Cabrini-Green in 1989. Photo by Camilo J. Vergara As the Chicago Housing Authority prepares to build...

(Above) 534 West Division Street in the Cabrini-Green housing project, photographed in 1998 by Camilo J. Vergara (Library of Congress)....

(Above) Area in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood in which a revised “Old Town Canvas” is planned. (Click on image to view larger version.)...

(Above) Rendering by GREC Architects of Old Town Canvas. In the new proposal, Old Town Canvas is shorter, has fewer apartments and fewer...

By Don DeBat Neighbors of the proposed apartment tower at LaSalle Drive & North Avenue swayed Hopkins with their concerns about traffic...

By Don DeBat The North Side housing market has defied the cold, reporting significant sales and price increases in the fourth quarter of...

Moody Bible Church By Don DeBat The on-going, highly controversial saga of the proposed construction of a massive 44-story high-rise at...

North Town Mid-Rise Second of two articles on the future of Cabrini Green. By Don DeBat Two decades ago, private developers tried to...