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Klippenstein · #**50681** Posted **May 25, 2022, 1:18 AM**

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Busy Bee · #**50690** Posted **May 26, 2022, 4:03 AM**

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Looks like you captured a trailer hauling some facade somewhere...

rivernorthlurker · #**50691** Posted **May 26, 2022, 4:08 AM**

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Looks like you captured a trailer hauling some facade somewhere...

Wow nice catch!

Briguy · #**50692** Posted **May 26, 2022, 10:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Looks like you captured a trailer hauling some facade somewhere...

Looks like the ALLY glass Lincoln yards

SolarWind · #**50693** Posted **May 27, 2022, 6:06 PM**

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left of center · #**50695** Posted **May 27, 2022, 7:12 PM**

That development is turning out pretty nice. I really enjoy the black framed windows, and the vast amount of red brick (or I guess what appears to be a red brick veneer, based on how it looks like its getting installed?). Keeping the slab balconies in the alley as opposed to the main street frontage (Racine and Jackson) is a nice touch as well.

Now if only that damn gas station on Van Buren would finally sell out and get developed.

Thank you for the great pics as always, Solar!

Busy Bee · #**50696** Posted **May 27, 2022, 8:06 PM**

Every brick facade in modern construction is a "veneer" in the sense that it is not structural or loaf bearing.

LouisVanDerWright · #**50697** Posted **May 29, 2022, 4:15 PM**

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Agree. Hoping it passes (or did it already?). There's no reason there should be SFH right around city train stations especially. Hopefully it can work better and some more mixed use districts with denser housing and walkability to various business can ensue.

I'm not sure exactly how this will work, but a blanket ban on SFH zoning near transit could be utterly devestating to certain communities along the OHare Blue Line or in the Bungalow Belt at least from a historic preservation perspective.

For example, what's going to happen to the Villa, Old Irving Park, Mayfair, etc? I live in Mayfair which is full of old homes on giant lots. Even under RS-3 you could have put four big ass condos on my lot. If you change that to RT-4, literally every old house that hits the market for $500k or less in our entire neighborhood would be razed and replaced with a big ass 8 flat in a neighborhood that currently has nothing larger than 2 flats on the side streets.

I'm about as YIMBY as they come, but given the total lack of perseveration protections in this City this could spell utter disaster for these older SFH districts along the Blue Line or for some Bungalow Belt areas also transit adjacent.

OrdoSeclorum · #**50698** Posted **May 29, 2022, 7:33 PM**

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I'm about as YIMBY as they come, but given the total lack of perseveration protections in this City this could spell utter disaster for these older SFH districts along the Blue Line or for some Bungalow Belt areas also transit adjacent.

I think that a historic district is appropriate in many places. If a streetscape exists that's unique and important and basically can't be build today at any price, it should be very difficult to tear down.

But if someone owns a typical parcel in a city and wants to build a small apartment building on it, with or without parking, that should be possible without having to talk to any elected officials.

I have a hard time believing that if only $500K home values are currently supported by the market, that the market would also support hundreds of new market rate apartments there too, but maybe I'm missing some important insight.

marothisu · #**50699** Posted **May 29, 2022, 8:47 PM**

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Impossible. Everyone keeps saying for the last 13+ years that Chicago is dead and is the next Detroit. Probably means nothing but since moving back here I've seen quite a lot of Florida and Texas plates on the roads here, including some from Ubers I've taken.

Just want to say that in some neighborhoods it's super apparent right now. Even saw multiple Utah plates out today in just a 1.5 mile total round trip walk, plus about 10 CA plates, and many more. I hope it means something more than the "once you're made aware of something, you see more of it" effect. When I lived in Chicago before I never remember seeing like this - and it was usually just Iowa and Indiana plates.

galleyfox · #**50700** Posted **May 29, 2022, 9:16 PM**

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Just want to say that in some neighborhoods it's super apparent right now. Even saw multiple Utah plates out today in just a 1.5 mile total round trip walk, plus about 10 CA plates, and many more. I hope it means something more than the "once you're made aware of something, you see more of it" effect. When I lived in Chicago before I never remember seeing like this - and it was usually just Iowa and Indiana plates.

Sometimes, it just takes a little time and opportunity.

10 years ago, I was the first person in the family to live within 1,000 miles of Chicago.

Last year, father and grandmother came to join me. This year, mother and youngest brother are moving up here too.