Marina City Online is a news and information website covering the River North neighborhood of downtown Chicago and focused on the 929 resident, 16 business community of Marina City.

More than 136,000 people have visited Marina City Online since 2007, according to Google Analytics. Traffic to MCO doubled in 2008 and again in 2009. In 2010, more than 45,000 people made more than 70,000 visits to the site.

In 2011, with an increased presence on social media sites, there were 63,564 visits to marinacityonline.com from 41,637 unique visitors. Videos related to Marina City on MCO’s YouTube page have been viewed more than 12,000 times.

(Above) Number of visits by year to MarinaCityOnline.com

MCO is your one-stop shop for news and information about Marina City and its dynamic neighborhood north of the Loop.

195 news articles – an average of one new story every one and a half days – were published in 2011, each based on interviews directly with newsmakers. Our section on the history of Marina City – the first comprehensive history of Marina City published anywhere – contains more than 67,000 words and the site has more than 2,000 images and videos.

MLS listings and photos are updated daily from raw data obtained from Midwest Real Estate Data LLC. An email version is sent to subscribers of this free service.

See what property is selling for at Marina City and other places on the Chicago Real Estate Transfers page. Get the unit number, date executed, date recorded, price, seller and buyer from information updated twice every month from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Give us your email address and an alert will be sent to you at no charge whenever a new transfer is reported.

MCO’s 42nd Ward Crime Database provides access to information from Chicago Police Department crime incident reports to residents of River North and six other neighborhoods. Select a block and give us your email address, and at no charge an alert will be sent to you automatically whenever a new incident is reported.

Every afternoon, a summary of headlines and closing stock prices of particular interest to the north side of the Loop is created and emailed at no charge to subscribers.

Once a week, an update is emailed to a large list of local and national news media people, residents and former residents, tenants, neighbors, architects, lawyers, scholars, city officials, real estate professionals, newsmakers, and numerous other people with a connection or interest in Marina City.

We offer editorials and guest opinions, fast and fun facts about Marina City, floor plates and maps, directory of commercial tenants, information for residents, guides to restaurants and neighborhood attractions, and many other features.

Marina City Online was founded on September 17, 2005, by Steven Dahlman, a writer, photographer, and software developer who lives at Marina City. He has 30 years of experience as a professional journalist. He has written extensively about Marina City and is currently working on a book about its history. MCO has been written about by Archinect, ArchitectureChicago PLUS, Chicago Carless, Chicago Journal, ChicagoNow, Chicago Real Estate Daily, Chicago Tribune, Chicagoist, Columbia Chronicle, Crain’s Chicago Business, Curbed Chicago, FARK.com, Gapers Block, NBC Chicago, NewCityChicago.com, The Windy Citizen, Time Out Chicago, United Press International, WBEZ.org, WGN Radio, Wikipedia, and YoChicago. MarinaCityOnline.com is a member of the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

Privacy Notice. For the purpose of calculating unique visitors, Marina City Online on its news and history pages saves your IP address, date and time of visit, and pages viewed. The Crime Database application saves your IP address, date of first visit, number of visits, and your last three search keys.