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  • A heated political battle is simmering behind-the-scenes over a proposal by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s City Council floor leader to require smoke detectors installed in Chicago’s oldest homes and resident ...
  • Is Mass Timber the Future of Construction?

    24 Feb 2020 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics
    Could fire-blocking timber construction be part of the carbon-neutral city of the future? Scientists from Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research think so. In a new paper, they argue t ...
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  • Chicago's $2.1B Chicago Transit Authority Modernization Well Under Way

    20 Feb 2020 Lori Tobias, Construction Equipment Guide
    Construction crews drilled the first shafts last fall for the $1.2 billion phase one of the Chicago Transit Authority's $2.1 billion Red-Purple Modernization Program, the largest capital improvement p ...
  • Chicago Developer, WeWork to Anchor New River North Building

    19 Feb 2020 Danny Ecker, Crain's Chicago Business
    Fast-growing developer CA Ventures is nearly doubling the size of its downtown Chicago headquarters and joining WeWork at a boutique building under construction in River North. CA Ventures confirmed i ...
  • In less than three months groundbreaking for the tallest mass timber building in the entire world will happen in Milwaukee. The ‘Ascent’ building will house 260 apartments and beat the current tallest ...
  • It’s been more than a year since city officials approved a new observation deck and a 1,185-foot exterior elevator for Chicago’s Aon Center, and the sky-high attraction is finally getting ready to mov ...
  • Is Automation the Future of Construction?

    14 Feb 2020 Chicago Build Expo
    According to a recent study by the Midwest Economic Policy Institute (MEPI), an increase in automation in the construction industry could displace as much as 49% (2.7 million) of America’s blue-collar ...
  • The Chicago Transit Board approved a $38.3-million contract to T. Y. Lin International Great Lakes on Feb. 10 to provide planning and preliminary engineering services for the Red Line Extension, a lon ...
  • The 78 Megaproject gets Backing from the University of Illinois

    12 Feb 2020 David Reoder, Chicago Suntimes
    The University of Illinois and the developer of the 62-acre site south of downtown known as The 78 have reached a deal for a technology center serving as an anchor for what’s envisioned as a new Chica ...
  • The Lost Buildings of Chicago

    11 Feb 2020 Jay Koziarz, Chicago Curbed
    Chicago Stock Exchange Building The old Chicago Stock Exchange Building is one of the city’s best-known cases when it comes to regrettable demolitions. Completed by legendary Chicago architects Dankma ...
  • A new executive order under consideration by President Donald Trump attempts to make classicism the "preferred and default style" for new and upgraded federal buildings.  According to an exclusive rep ...
  • Skidmore Lands Massive O’Hare Expansion Project

    07 Feb 2020 The Real Deal Chicago
    The Chicago O’Hare expansion project is finally cleared for take-off after Skidmore Owings & Merrill signed on as the project’s lead civil engineer, Crain’s reported. The architectural firm signed a m ...
  • Johnson Publishing Company Building: This 11-story South Loop building is the former home of Johnson Publishing and Jet and Ebony magazines, which were amongst the most important and influential Black ...
  • The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

    05 Feb 2020 Aaron M. Renn, aaronenn.com
    Chicago is known as one of America’s great cities for architecture. But other than the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, designed by Mies van der Rohe, very little of the architecture of the So ...
  • The city of Chicago is partnering with Uber to boost participation in the 2020 Census. Uber is contributing $100,000 to local community organizations that are helping reach hard-to-count residents. Co ...
  • Chicago's Navy Pier Set to Open New Marina

    08 Jan 2020 Crain's Chicago Business, Sarah Zimmerman
    A commercial real estate developer who loves boating is behind a permanent marina set to open next year at Navy Pier.  The roughly $9 million Navy Pier Marina is the passion project of Randy Podolsky, ...
  • Uber on Sunday became the largest tenant in the Old Post Office as it officially took over space in the building. Back in August, the rideshare company signed a 10-year lease for nearly half a million ...
  • Chicago developers are making bold plays to turn long-vacant brownfield sites, obsolete industrial corridors, and underutilized historic buildings into sprawling megadevelopments.
  • As a new year begins in Chicago, the upcoming Obama Presidential Center appears to be no closer to breaking ground on the city’s South Side. The Obama Foundation first announced its Jackson Park site  ...
  • Chicago's local "common" brick has gone from shabby to chic, and some of the city's most acclaimed architects are on the forefront of a masonry revival.
  • Old Town, a neighborhood just north of downtown, is a mix of new luxury digs and some eye-catching historic condos. 
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  • The project preserves a historic building and brings public open space to the Palmer Square community.  

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