Status Update: The Thompson Chicago in the Gold Coast
Work continues at The Thompson Chicago, the city’s soon-to-be newest hotel. It’s actually the former Sutton Place Hotel (21 East Bellevue Place), perched on...
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Chicago’s New Virgin Slips Into a Little Something Skimpy and Red and Sheer
From cell phones to space ships, Richard Branson’s Virgin industrial empire has never been shy about standing out in a crowded marketplace. And even before the...
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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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After Four Years of Negotiations, Another Wrigley Renovation May Be At Hand
We don’t cover Wrigley Field (1080 West Addison Street) renovations often enough on this blog. The main reason is that anything involving the ballpark is so...
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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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Empty Loop Bank to Go From Blue to Indigo
Pity the poor Atlantic Bank Building (168 North Michigan Avenue). Even when it was full of people, it wasn’t much to look at. Years of indifference...
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Status Update: The Clark and Grand Hotels
657 hotel rooms will come online in downtown Chicago, thanks to the project at North Clark Street and West Grand Street. Two surface parking lots and an old bank...
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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, 2012 – Part 10
If you’re looking for the best Christmas trees in Chicago, check out the city’s hotels. Pretty much every big hotel goes all out with its Christmas...
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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, 2012 – Part 3
An orderly row of Christmas wreaths has been deployed in the arched windows that line the second floor of the Drake Hotel (140 East Walton Place) on the Magnificent...
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Status Update: The Clark and Grand Hotels
Things are really moving along at Clark and Grand where three hotels are going up simultaneously. We had extensive coverage of this proposal back when it was just an...
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You Say Adler, I Say Alder, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
News anchors in a dozen cities will all tell you the same thing — I have a serious problem spelling anything more complicate than “Coming up next.”...
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More on River Point [Update 2]
Just a few hours after we published our article about River Point (444 West Lake Street), the new office tower expected to break ground soon at the confluence of the...
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Week Links: May 4, 2012
We haven’t heard much lately about the new hotel that’s going into the former One IBM Plaza building at 330 North Wabash Avenue. The last update we saw...
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Week Links: April 27, 2012
It’s been a pretty quiet week. Anyone else ready for Summer? Here’s a few notes: We hear the new Burberry Flagship Store (633 North Michigan Avenue)...
Read MoreBriefly: Book Marks, Sleeping With Virgin, Occupy The News
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...
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