33-Story Banquet Coming to the Fulton River District
What’s better than a State Street Thanksgiving parade stuffed with Jesse White Tumblers? How about a 33-story skyscraper stuffed into the...
5 Chicago Buildings to be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
A lot of people aren’t going to work this week, so chances are you’re not reading this. If you’ve buried your nose in your...
113-Story Michigan Avenue Tower Refined, Not Chopped
If you were worried that the new super tall skyscraper planned for Chicago’s Magnificent Mile was going to be shortened — or worse, cancelled...
Evanston’s Newest Apartment Building Open For Business
Evanston is the latest Chicago suburb to sport a new apartment building. LINK Evanston recently had its official grand opening, complete with a...
Abandoned Two-Story School To Become Eight-Story Hotel
Back when Chicago’s Immaculate Conception parish and Saint Joseph parish were individual communities, there was a school on the corner of...
New River West Apartment Building Tops Off
The latest residential block on the Milwaukee Avenue Corridor has topped off. 740 North Aberdeen was designed by FitzGerald Associates for Fifield...
Neighborhood Church To Become Offices and Homes
We’ve seen plenty of Chicago houses of worship transformed into housing in the last 20 years. What’s proposed for 4601 South Ellis...
Building Under Construction Already Sending Out Good Vibes
For those people who crane their necks at the skyscrapers being built around Chicago, the scene doesn’t really change all that much. The...
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- 33-Story Banquet Coming to the Fulton River District
- Adler Planetarium Expansion Could See Historic Building Sprout Wings
- Are You Ready To Soft Rock? 1212 North State Plan Is Aggressively Understated
- Wayback Wednesday: 73 East Lake Street
- Odd Chicago Zoning Rule Says No to Skyscraper, Yes to Typewriter Repair Shop
33-Story Banquet Coming to the Fulton River District
What’s better than a State Street Thanksgiving parade stuffed with Jesse White Tumblers? How about a 33-story skyscraper stuffed into the Fulton River District? 42nd Ward Alderman...
Adler Planetarium Expansion Could See Historic Building Sprout Wings
People have been thinking about expanding the easternmost element of Chicago’s Museum Campus. A feasibility study is underway to see if an ambitious $211 million expansion and renovation of...
Are You Ready To Soft Rock? 1212 North State Plan Is Aggressively Understated
If you were worried that the new building planned for the corner of State and Division was going to be some kind of flashy attention-getter, or perhaps interesting in any way at all, fret not. ...
Wayback Wednesday: 73 East Lake Street
With 16 years of Chicago architecture photos in our archive, it’s time to hook up the electrodes, snap into a Slim Jim, and set the Wayback Machine for December 11, 2012: Seven years ago...
Odd Chicago Zoning Rule Says No to Skyscraper, Yes to Typewriter Repair Shop
The history of Chicago is written in its zoning rules. Leafing through the pages you get a sense of how successive generations used the letter of the law to shape the ways in which the city...
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