After being out of town for another couple of weekends, we pulled a card out of our box and headed up to Lincoln Square. It's an old German area in the northwest part of Chicago, seemingly bounded by Damen to the east, Western to the west, Montrose to the south and Lawrence to the north.
Per usual, we loved the neighborhood. It's right on the brown line, so it's easy to commute into the loop. There's a little shopping area that's almost entirely a pedestrian street, filled with cute restaurants like Bistro Campagne and the Chicago Brauhaus and awesome stores like the Merz Apothecary. There's a good looking movie theater and a wine store, and it's just generally pleasant. There isn't much traffic, and the streets are wide and open. My favorite spot is the Book Cellar -- a combined bookstore/wine bar. Alas, we've found another neighborhood we'll consider in our house hunt. When will it stop?
Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Walk #3: Ukranian Village
As we were in Iowa last weekend, we didn't have a chance to do one of our walks. But we're back this weekend with a walk in Ukranian Village.
This week's walk was rather short, and centered around a stretch on Chicago Avenue and on Oakley Boulevard. We saw a couple of incredible Ukranian Catholic churches there, and ate lunch at a funky restored bar called Tuman's on the corner of Chicago and Leavitt. The highlight of the walk was enjoying the quiet, leafy streats around Chicago Avenue. We ended up stopping it at an open house for a condo in the 2258 Huron Lofts. The building is a converted church, and the details inside are incredible. There are apartments where the choir loft used to be, and the apartment we looked at was where the altar area was. Matt and I previously agreed we would wait another year befoore buying a house, but this made me want to buy one right now. I wonder if we'll be able to last another year :)
So the short of it is, we didn't see anything particulary notable, but we really liked the feel of the neighborhood. When we start house hunting for real, we'll go back!
This week's walk was rather short, and centered around a stretch on Chicago Avenue and on Oakley Boulevard. We saw a couple of incredible Ukranian Catholic churches there, and ate lunch at a funky restored bar called Tuman's on the corner of Chicago and Leavitt. The highlight of the walk was enjoying the quiet, leafy streats around Chicago Avenue. We ended up stopping it at an open house for a condo in the 2258 Huron Lofts. The building is a converted church, and the details inside are incredible. There are apartments where the choir loft used to be, and the apartment we looked at was where the altar area was. Matt and I previously agreed we would wait another year befoore buying a house, but this made me want to buy one right now. I wonder if we'll be able to last another year :)
So the short of it is, we didn't see anything particulary notable, but we really liked the feel of the neighborhood. When we start house hunting for real, we'll go back!
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