Status Update: AMLI Clark & Polk
With AMLI River North (71 West Hubbard Street) at its maximum height and rapidly approaching completion, it’s time to turn out attention to another AMLI project...
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Status Update: The Godfrey Chicago Hotel
What once was an abandoned, half-finished Staybridge Suites hotel in River North is rapidly becoming The Godfrey (127 West Huron Street), an upscale hotel with...
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Status Update: Northwestern Memorial Hospital Outpatient Pavilion
Northwestern University’s latest beige block continues to grow in the middle of Streeterville. When completed, the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Outpatient...
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Status Update: Maple & Ash – The New and Improved Hunt Club
Chicago’s landmark Hunt Club is gone (1100 North State street). Right now, it’s just a shallow pit filled with bricks and memories. Soon to rise in this...
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Status Update: Argo Tea Pavilion and Connors Park
The rebuilding of Connors Park in the city’s Gold Coast neighborhood continues apace. The old, mostly concrete park has been jackhammered away, and in its place...
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Status Update: Optima Chicago Center
The Optima Chicago Center (200 East Illinois Street) is gaining height and prominence in the Streeterville skyline. Now that it’s climbed significantly past...
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Status Update: Loews Hotel Tower in Streeterville
The Loews Hotel tower is growing by leaps and bounds. The plot of land across the street from the Sheraton Hotel and Tower (301 East North Water Street) in...
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Status Update: A New High For Streeterville’s Loews Hotel Tower
The new Loews Hotel going up at 435 North Park Drive now has a tower crane — a significant step towards its climb to 53 stories and 635 feet. We took the photo...
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Status Update: No Rest at Virgin Hotel
It’s been a very busy week at the old Dearborn Bank Building, soon to emerge as the world’s first Virgin Hotel (203 North Wabash Avenue). One of our Loop...
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Status Update: Howells and Hood at Tribune Tower
Things are cooking at the new steakhouse/bistro/bar that’s being carved into the side of the Tribune Tower (435 North Michigan Avenue). Howells and Hood is named...
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Progress On a Public/Private Partnership Putting Potable Purveyor in Park Pavilion
It was almost two years ago when we first told you that Chicago’s own tea shop chain, Argo Tea, was going to set up shop in an unusual location — Connors...
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Another Helicopter Lift in The Loop [Video]
For a second weekend in a row, there’s been a helicopter lift at the Hyatt Regency Chicago’s east tower (201 East Wacker Drive). A construction worker tells...
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A Virgin Aroused: Construction Begins at Much-Anticipated Loop Hotel
Something is finally happening at the site of what will some day become the Virgin Hotel Chicago (203 North Wabash Avenue). It’s been a year and a half since it...
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111 West Wacker Gets Its Crane On [updated]
We’ve been wondering lately when a crane will rise alongside 111 West Wacker to help finally complete that building. As hinted at by signs on the property reading...
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K2 OK, Becomes Chicago’s First New Apartment Tower of 2013
If there’s a race to be the first new residential building to open each year in Chicago, then K2 just won it. The Fifield/Wood Partners project at 365 North...
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