After the demolition of Cabrini Green and other huge, ugly and notoriously crime-infested Chicago housing projects, Queensbridge Houses is now North America’s largest public housing project — and one of the ugliest. The dilapidated brown buildings date to 1939 and form two Y shapes. The complex...
The product of two years of intense focus, Chicago rapper LEGIT’s new project Maudlin isn’t what you’d expect. It’s a r&b ep meant to croon you through lonely late nights soundtracked by Silent Party, a group of session musicians who sit in on drums, guitar, keys and more in ...
Located around 25 miles from Chicago, Wheaton is one of the city’s more religious suburbs. It’s the home of the well-regarded evangelical school Wheaton College, with many churches in the town. It also doubles as something of a college town in general, also home to the Illinois Institute...
Here's a question for my fellow Berkshire County friends and neighbors: Are you one of those people that I see every weekend up at the crack of dawn, driving around looking for tag sale signs in order to write down the times and locations so you can plan your day looking for that long...
of living, with housing costsalmost 25% lowerthan the national average, according to a 2022 report by the Council for Community and Economic Research. Ohio's two largest cities, Columbus and Cleveland, offer a city feel without the high cost of living of other Midwestern cities like Chicago....
Unite raises £450mn for student housing expansion UK student landlord Unite has raised about £450mn in a share placing as investors backed its plans to buy and build more residences. “It is a big quantum of equity to raise in this market,” said Joe Lister, chief executive. He adde...
Texas is home to leading companies and is attracting a tremendous amount of migration. No state income taxes and more affordable housing are big draws. Demographic trends to Texas and other Sunbelt states may last for decades due to technology and work-from-home. ...
Modeled in part on the Taj Mahal, Shangri La provided the newlyweds with a welcome refuge from Palm Beach high society. The 14,000 square foot home is now a museum housing Duke's extensive collection of Islamic art. Idaho: Thompson Log Cabin, Lewiston Francis Dean/Corbis News // Getty ...
Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferredfrom Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. In 2018,Mozilla saidit would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badge...
“Another leg down in housing could extend the period for which the credit distress persists,” said Richard Brown, the FDIC’s top economist. “That’s a legitimate concern.” The amount of money that banks set aside to cover future losses dipped nearly 17 percent from a year earlier. Los...