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Each week, the Domu team selects a variety of listings to feature on our home page image slideshow.  These images are viewed by the thousands of tenants that visit Domu daily. …

After a thoroughly unexpected though highly enjoyable false start, summertime is finally reaching Chicago.  And we all know what that means: Droves of Chicagoans heading to the lakefront trail in search of recreation, entertainment, culture, and that exhilarating combination of sun, sea…

For more than fifty years, thousands of stately kings have been checkmated at Chicago’s famed “Chess Pavilion,” just west of the lakefront pedestrian path between the North Avenue and Oak Street beaches. The pavilion was built in 1957 thanks to a $90,000 donation from Laurens Hammond, whose…

We at Domu have become experts at identifying effective apartment listings, and one of the critical elements of a good listing is good photography.  So today we share our best recommendations for creating photographs that will make your apartment look more enticing to readers.…

Even in these topsy-turvy days nothing foreshadows the end of winter quite like spring training and the Domu ad campaign. Once you catch that first glimpse of a local Chicago landlord or tenant on the side of a CTA bus, or inside an el train, you can be certain of one thing: Rental season has…

A tenant doesn't just lease an apartment.  A tenant leases a neighborhood.  So here at Domu we try our best to educate our Chicago tenants about the neighborhoods in which they live.  That's why we created the Chicago History Map.  Pound for pound, we think the…

A very long time ago, Chicago's first mayor and real estate mogul, William Butler Ogden, owned a ton of shares in a business known as the Chicago Land Company. Though we at Domu haven't been privy to the tax returns, we don't doubt for a moment that Mayor Ogden's Chicago Land Company returned…

Here at domu, we want to help you get to work on time, so we’ve gone and assembled another one of our notoriously informative guides, this time focused on demystifying traffic reports. What’s the point of listening to a report on Chicago traffic when you don’t know any of the jargon? Or when the…

Ravinia Festival (yes, that’s its official name) is an outdoor concert and picnicking venue in Highland Park that draws hundreds of thousands of people to star-studded performances every summer season.  Founded in the early twentieth century, Ravinia Chicago has been one of Chicago’s…