The Chicago Plan Commission has approved construction of the 45-story tower at 410 East Grand Street.  See our previous coverage and pictures here and here. After underwhelming neighbors with changes to the proposed Old Saint Patrick’s Tower at 625 West Adams Street, the...

  Neighbors of Old Saint Patrick’s Church in the West Loop have been going ape over its plans to erect an office tower.  One of their biggest complaints has been potential light pollution.  It looks like the already rough relationship between OSP and The Edge is going to get...

The design of the proposed office tower at 625 West Adams Street has been revised. In response to the concerns of neighbors about the building’s size and harsh reflections from the setting sun, Solomon Cordwell Buenz architects has altered the western facade to make it resemble a grid...

Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt has been selected to create a monument honoring historic anti-lynching published Ida B. Wells to be placed on the median at East 37th Street and South Langley Street in Bronzeville.  More information here. The people behind the proposed Old Saint Patrick’s...

People living in the West Loop are getting a better understanding of their potential new neighbor: a 22-story  office tower to be erected on a surface parking lot currently owned by Old Saint Patrick’s Church. The Old Saint Patrick’s Tower (not its official name, just an allonym...