Plans for a massive 5.2 million-square-foot renovation and restoration of the empty Post Office at Canal and Van Buren, and accompanying new West Loop development are...
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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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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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It looks like Loyola University’s big new project for the Gold Coast will make the transition from paper to real life. The Chicago Plan Commission has given its...
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The Fairmont Chicago (200 North Columbus Drive ) is a nice enough hotel. But let’s face it — the outside is unremarkable. It is a beige-ish stone...
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Recently we received an e-mail from a teacher who was looking for information about all of the cool stones embedded in the facade of the Tribune Tower (435 North...
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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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It is one of those buildings that the unsuspecting might pass right by, its unflashy brown façade and comparatively modest scale giving no overt clues to its...
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An overflow crowd of more than one hundred people, most of them West Loop residents, met last night (February 26th) to learn about the latest plans for Phase II of The...
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Loyola University is talking more about its plans for the corner of State and Chestnut in the Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. We first told you about the...
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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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They have a face only a mother could love. They aren’t much on conversation. And if they could talk, you have to figure their personality would be on the sour...
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AMLI’s new residential tower is muscling its way into the Chicago skyline. Even though River North is a typically crowded portion of downtown Chicago, the...
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The former Prentice Womens’ Hospital (320 East Huron Street) sits and waits. A building that brought thousands of lives into this world exists in limbo in a...
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As you heard here first (if you’re on our Twitter and Facebook feeds), Wolf Point is a virtual “go.” There are still some procedural hurdles and a...
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