Living and Renting in Chicago - PPM Apartments Blog

The great thing about living in Chicago is that there are always amazing events big and small going on throughout the city every day of the week.  Here are our pick of events that tickled our fancy for the weekend of 3/30. Clawfest @ Wrightwood Tap (1059 N. Wrightwood) – This Saturday one of our [...]

Spring is here.  And with the surprisingly warm weather, Chicago couldn’t have asked for a nicer start to one of our four favorite seasons.  But with winter weather behind us, it’s time to give your apartment a spring facelift to match.  To help, we came up with 4 quick, easy and cheap ways to help [...]

Hannah from Seamless Organizing offers us her expert advice on how to organize a studio apartment effectively: I reside in a 380 sq. ft. studio apartment and know first hand the difficulties of living in a small space.  Storage space can be seemingly non-existent if you don’t know where to look.  Here are some simple [...]

Here at PPM, we love any reason to celebrate.  We celebrate our residents.   We celebrate every National Fill-In-the-Blank Day (even the ones that overlap).   Heck, we even celebrate Tuesdays, and we don’t know anyone else who celebrates Tuesdays.   So when it comes time to celebrate the man who drove the snakes from the Irish Isles, [...]

I’ve been in a Dog Fight before, I know how to handle myself.  My last Fight brought me to Lakeview, this one to Lincoln Park.  I ventured to America’s Dog, Wiener Circle, and Chicagos Dog House, three of Lincoln Park’s top-rated hot dog stands, to see which establishment was tops. The first stop on my [...]

We’re not sure if it’s the Luck ‘O the Chi-Rish that made St. Patrick’s Day a multi-weekend extravaganza, but Chicago is perfectly content having two full weekends of kelly green.   Here’s our pick of of weekend #1 (St. Patty’s Day warmup weekend) events going on in PPM neighborhoods. Friday, March 9th  Forever Green @ Park [...]

The wait is over. Chicago has been giddy with anticipation of the opening of the World Famous Laugh Factory, and that time has arrived.  Chicago is known for comedy , but much of it focuses on sketch and improv (I outlined some of my **burp** favs previously), so it is just perfect that our city [...]

Danny Spagnuolo, one of PPM’s finest, ran the Hustle Up the Hancock this past weekend in support of the fight against lung cancer.  As the name implies, the race is a straight climb up 94 flights of stairs to the Observatory at the John Hancock Center on Michigan Ave.  Danny not only completed the race, [...]

Chicago’s best neighborhoods – The Gold Coast, Lakeview, and Lincoln Park.  We recently made an amusing and informative video about a couple hard-pressed to choose between them.  Watch it below.  And after the video check out our detailed descriptions of each of these fabulous neighborhoods.   Gold Coast It’s no accident that the Gold Coast [...]

Do you have something you don’t use that someone else could?  Of course.  We all do PPM has the best residents in Lakeview, Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast.  They prove it time and time again.  Like during our food drive with Lakeview Pantry, where our residents raised over 3 tons of food for needy [...]