Our Gold Coast Spy checked in today with a couple of pictures of the new Burberry Flagship Store going up at 633 North Michigan Avenue.  After months of digging around in the basement, the steel of the building has finally risen above street level. Construction is expected to be finished in...

There’s lots of work going on on Oak Street, as the former Esquire Theater (58 East Oak Street) is hacked into storefronts and office space.  As part of the project, the old Esquire sign is supposed to be restored, and as you can see from these pictures — it needs...

Magellan Development’s latest water-named tower is progressing nicely.  The Coast (345 East Wacker Drive) is going up in Lakeshore East, obliterating the lake and city views of thousands of people in the Swissôtel, The Tides, The Shoreham, and Aqua. The Coast is a 45-story apartment...

Our Gold Coast Spy sends us a visual update on the new Patagonia store going in at 48 East Walton Street in Chicago’s Gold Coast.  From the outside, things look pretty complete.  Might it be open in time for Black Friday? It’s interesting to note that Chicago has developed...

Construction is underway turning the former Loehman’s discount store space in the Joffrey Tower (8 East Randolph Street) into a flagship Walgreen’s store. What makes it a flagship?  It’s using the new design and services that Walgreens tested out at its new Duane Reade drug...

We have a few more details about K2 (365 North Halsted Street), which you’ll remember had a ceremonial groundbreaking last week (previous coverage here and here). The building is 366 feet tall from Kinzie Street dirt to the top of the mechanical penthouse. The building is designed as...

  With the demolition of the Magnificent Mile’s Burberry Flagship Store (633 North Michigan Avenue), it’s now possible to see just how big the replacement store will be. The windows on the lower floors of the American Osteopathic Association building (142 East Ontario Street),...

  Yesterday we brought you a story about the official groundbreaking for the K2 tower (365 North Halsted Street) in the Fulton River District. We heard from some people that, visually speaking, that there were too many people in suits and not enough hot construction pictures. So, here you...

 With the continuing demise of bookstores across the country, and here in Chicago, the Waldenbooks at Ogilvie Transportation Center (500 West Madison Street) is now branded “HudsonBooksellers.”. Waldenbooks was owned by Borders, which no longer exists. The nondescript building...

We’re seeing the first signs of progress on The Gateway, a new residential tower going in at the corner of West Madison Street and South Halsted Street. Demolition crews are chewing through the rubble of an unremarkable two-story bank, clearing the L-shaped plot for the 312-foot-tall...

Steel is going up on the plot of land behind Fourth Presbyterian Church that used to be a concatenation of building additions.   Those additions were torn down earlier this year to make way for a five-story office and classroom building that’s part of Project Second Century.  The...

Construction on the Ritz-Carlton Residences (664 North Michigan Avenue) is moving along nicely.  The heavy work on the exterior is pretty much complete.  The windows are all installed, and work is being done on building out the homes. If you can’t get enough of this building, check out...

Construction is underway at the newest skyscraper at the Lakeshore East subdivision of the New Eastside portion of the Loop neighborhood of Chicago. A crane has been erected for The Coast (345 East Wacker Drive), a $150 million, 45-story residential tower scheduled to obliterate most lake...

From most angles, the new Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Memorial Hospital (225 East Chicago Avenue) appears done, but there is still much work to be done. The facade was officially completed in February, but the ground floor remains hidden behind a wall of blue-painted...

    If you blinked, you missed it. The old two-story Burberry Store at 633 North Michigan Avenue is now little more than a shallow hole in the ground. The store moved to a temporary location across the street in August while a new five- story flagship store is built. See our...

Does anyone remember the 1980′s video game Worm War 3? Michigan Avenue is kind of like that these days....

The resurfacing project that’s going to eventually put a nice, smooth layer of asphalt on Madison Street from Michigan Avenue to Kingdom Come has uncovered a nice little history lesson. At a number of points along the street, the asphalt scraping machine that removed the previous layers...

The newest skyscraper being built in Streeterville isn’t another glassy condo block.  And it won’t be yet another “medical” building that’s little more than offices for a hospital with six-hour emergency room waiting times.  It’s the world’s largest...