Joe Zekas
Joe Zekas works at adding to his used-to-be's: dirt-poor Pennsylvania coal-town kid, shortest in class through 8th grade, New Jerseyan, hitch-hiker, motorcyclist, statistical typist, library clerk, delivery boy, classical scholar wannabe, gas station attendant, tuxedo salesman, psychiatric aide, social worker, civil rights activist, draft-dodger, gun-toting truck driver (Brinks), bartender, temp secretary, Lucey's Raider, Wisconsinite, large-firm attorney, real estate developer, condo converter, tax shelter syndicator, multi-level marketer, married person, newspaper publisher, money-losing tech gadfly, software developer to name a few.
Joe is Chairman of Data Based Ads and dabbles in YoChicago.
Joseph Askins
Joseph Askins moved to Aurora in June 2007 and was ready to move out after a couple of weeks. Now he lives in Wicker Park - or maybe Bucktown, depending on which boundary you recognize - and spends his days editing New Homes Magazine and YoChicago.com. Joe grew up in Northwest Arkansas and spent the past three years covering county government and the arts for the region's main daily newspaper. (Yes, he wears shoes, and no, he has never married his cousin.) He spends his spare time sorting and resorting his CDs and DVDs, losing fantasy-football championships, starting books he'll never, ever finish, and rooting for the Cardinals (although he's trying to pay more attention to the White Sox).
Jeremy Schnitker
Jeremy Schnitker first moved to Chicago in the spring of 2006 and spent three subsequent years writing and editing for a Chicago-based real estate news Web site and freelancing for various magazines about town. After a recent three-month stint back in Omaha to try to figure out what his next life move was, he decided to return to the Windy City and jump back in the real estate journalism game with YoChicago. A 2001 graduate of the University of Iowa, Jeremy considers watching Hawkeye football a near religious experience. He also enjoys rock music, quality cinema and roaming the city in search of hidden architectural gems.
Anish Jethmalani
Anish Jethmalani is the sales manager for YoChicago.com and NewHomeNotebook.com. He has worked with the Yo team since 2004 in advertising sales and marketing. A Chi-Town native, Anish loves to treat out-of-town guests to everything that is “Chicago” including deep dish pizza, Second City, Italian beef, the Bulls, Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Green Mill, and much much more. In addition to working for Yo, he also works as an actor appearing on the stages of many Chicago theatres.
He’s a proud alum of Loyola University Chicago, where he received his degrees in Economics and Theatre Arts. He also attended the Oxford School of Drama in England.
