Chicago's arts community is the heartbeat of our city's culture — and now, there's a housing opportunity designed with that community in mind. Related Midwest has opened the waitlist for 400 Lake Shore Drive, a brand-new residential community in Streeterville featuring Continue Reading
Chicago just opened a door that's been closed for decades — and commercial property owners should be paying attention. On April 1, 2026, Chicago's permanent, citywide ADU ordinance took effect. Within 48 hours, 188 applications had already been submitted. But the Continue Reading
My wife and I were looking for a home that would be a live/work space that also had rental units for additional income. We were interested in a number of neighborhoods around Chicago and a wide variety of configurations (conventional and unconventional) as far as the Continue Reading
I'm sharing some information about a new ordinance, adopted February 19, 2025, designed to streamline the conversion of ground floor commercial spaces into residential units. This initiative aims to revitalize vacant commercial properties and expand the availability of Continue Reading
My first Artists Salon of 2024 went great, more to come in December. I did get a lot of questions about home office/work in Chicago. I am tackling that topic in this blog post but only for the City of Chicago. Here is what the City/Zoning code says: Continue Reading
ArtHouse Chicago is going to start hosting an Artist Salon Series this fall. The first one will be 10/23 on the topic of “How to Buy a Live Work/Studio Space”. I will be hosting with Lender Jason Finn of Key Mortgage. We will go over the various types Continue Reading
