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  • Illinois governor signs $45B state construction bill

    01 Jul 2019 Construction Dive - Kim Slowey
    In a move that reportedly transcended politics, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed into law a bipartisan plan that will sink $45 billion into state construction projects and construction-rel ...
  • The 24-story, 615-room Toyoko Inn Hotel development slated for a parking lot near Chicago’s Union Station has once again caught the attention of 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly for its apparent lack ...
  • Timeline Theatre selects architect to design its new Uptown home

    28 Jun 2019 Curbed Chicago - Jay Koziarz
    Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre Company has selected architecture firm HGA to design its new home in an old Uptown building, the nonprofit organization revealed on Wednesday. The news comes six months afte ...
  • Chicago moves to modernize as city overhauls building codes

    28 Jun 2019 The Architect's Newspaper - Jamie Evelyn Goldsborough
    On April 10, under former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago City Council approved an overhaul to the Chicago Building Code, the first update since 1949. This announcement has invigorated the local desig ...
  • Mayor of Chicago Endorses Chicago Build

    27 Jun 2019 Chicago Build
    The Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, has just announced her official support for Midwest’s leading and largest construction and design event, Chicago Build, taking place on September 19 & 20, 2019. A ...
  • Lawndale artist Haman Cross got the ball rolling, and student artists helped design a complete course overhaul.
  • The first piece of the megadevelopment’s puzzle is the final phase of the Wells-Wentworth Connector project
  • Fresh off a flight from Aspen, Colorado, Jean Brownhill is brimming with enthusiasm for a new business initiative when we chat over the phone. While the adventurous excursions often associated with th ...
  • Chicago’s most expensive residential rental property is set to make its real estate market debut June 28 when  LEVEL Furnished Living, a division of Onni Group, will list the two-story penthouse for a ...
  • LGBTQ Community: 7 Architects who raise the pride and design flag high

    25 Jun 2019 Pallavi Mehra, Architectural Digest
    In the spirit of the Pride Month, we decided to take a look at individuals from the field who are forwarding the cause of design and their community
  • Architectural lighting designers take the spotlight in the Illuminating Engineering Society NYC's yearly Lumen Awards, which were established in 1968 and have grown into a prestigious international ev ...
  • Proposals currently on tap for the trendy corridor include a massive tech incubator, more office space, and a 17-story hotel.
  • This week, the Chicago Architecture Center is teaming up with WBEZ’s Curious City for an exciting evening event at which a group of prominent Chicago designers will battle for trivia honors in a live ...
  • A long-discussed plan to build a five-story, mixed-use development topped by artist housing in Humboldt Park reached a key milestone on Wednesday as the Chicago City Council approved financial support ...
  • Rents up in Rogers Park, Bronzeville Rents in the historically affordable neighborhoods of Rogers Park and Bronzeville have spiked over the last year, particularly near CTA stations, according to a st ...
  • The school that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built has a new leader: The Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago has named Reed Kroloff as dean of the College of Architecture. Kroloff, who has a B.A. ...
  • As part of a masterplan along the Chicago River, the River Beech Tower is a residential high-rise which, if built, would be taller than any existing timber building. The collaborative team behind Rive ...
  • Three new leaders were elected to The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Board of Directors at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2019 (A’19). At the meeting, AIA delegates elected:  Peter Exley, ...
  • During this cycle, developers have been eager to deliver big box industrial buildings to feed the voracious appetite of large users. However, the banquet may be oversupplied, as the number of large, s ...
  • As the International Interior Design Association celebrates its 25th anniversary, its annual Interior Design Competition continues to recognize and encourage innovation in the design and furnishing of ...
  • Meet the builders of Bronzeville

    13 Jun 2019 Crain's Chicago Business
    "This is an up-and-coming neighborhood that's coming up fast," Sawsan Jawdat says as she shows a visitor around a house at 4607 S. Calumet Ave., one of four in a row she built on this block of Bronzev ...
  • Construction firms across the U.S. continue to battle a skilled labor shortage that is pushing project deadlines and costs in a negative direction. In mid-2018, the Associated General Contractors of A ...
  • Luftwerk’s year-long exploration of architecture by Mies Van Der Rohe began with a geometric grid of red lazers, lighting up the Barcelona Pavilion. Later this year, their homage to mies will end with ...
  • Money to support a McCormick Place expansion would be raised by expanding a 1% tax on restaurant meals and drinks under legislation adopted Wednesday in the Illinois Senate. The proposal, which has st ...

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