After years of planning the Obama Presidential Center is officially under construction on Chicago's South Side. Former First Lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama joined Chicago Mayor
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The Chicago Landmarks Commission has approved the submission of the Ramova Theater located at 3518 S Halsted Street in Bridgeport to the National Historic Register. The theater was designed by Chicago
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Evergreen Real Estate Group and Structured Development are making notable progress on a collection of three 4-story residential buildings along the 700 block of West Schiller Place on the city's Near
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The 106-foot-tall structure, designed by Chicago's Landon Bone Baker Architects, will feature ground-floor retail topped by 99 apartments (50 affordable, 49 market-rate). The transit-oriented developm
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800 Fulton, a 19-story office and retail building recently completed construction in West Loop‘s Fulton Market District. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is the design firm behind 800 Fulton, whose de
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Budget includes $1.9 billion in key investments and no new taxes—an investment-based recovery strategy with a foundation set on greater opportunities for rebuilding Chicago into a safer, stronger, and
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has collaborated with University of Michigan Taubman College to create the SPLAM [SPatial LAMinated timber], a robotically-fabricated timber pavilion for the 2021 Chic
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Foundation work for the new 41-story residential tower known as The Reed at Southbank has begun. Located at 234 W. Polk Street, The Reed is the second building of the 7-acre Southbank megadevelopment,
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Last week, structural work reached the 510-foot-tall roof height of a new 47-story mixed-use skyscraper, located at 300 N Michigan Avenue in The Loop. The development is a joint-partnership between St
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16 Sept 2021
Joe Ward and Justin Laurence, Block Club Chicago
Courtenay Elementary School will be upgraded and receive $2.1 million from the city to build an accessible playground and include a nature walk. The upgrade will include a playground for older and you
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The 23-story and 36-story mixed-use development towers will provide 777 rental residential units and 314 hotel rooms. The towers designed by BKV Group are due to be added to Downtown Chicago in 2024 n
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14 Sept 2021
Mark Buckshon, Chicago Construction News
Chicago has issued a $130 million building permit for a 440-unit condo/apartment tower at 234 W. Polk St. Lend Lease Construction is the general contractor for this project and the architect is Perkin
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Situated along the North Branch Corridor in Bucktown, the first phase of construction of Triangle Square is nearing the finish line. The project is part of a three-building masterplan designed by Lama
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Designed by Canopy Architecture + Design, the newly permitted building will be 4-stories tall and contain 26 rental units. A second 4-story building with 22 apartments is planned next door. The comple
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The Illinois Tollway have started to shift traffic to provide a construction work zone. The Illinois Tollway is building a new pedestrian bridge over I-294 to maintain a connection between Veeck Park
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08 Sept 2021
Mark Buckshon, Chicago Construction News
The Chicago Plan Commission has approved four high-rise towers situated in Downtown. A total of $700 million will be invested into the projects. The developments approved will be a two-tower proposal
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A new residential development developed by GlenStar and designed by FitzGerald Associates near O'Haire Airport has been approved by the Chicago Plan Commission. The new $90 million development will cr
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Although Bob Dunn's One Central project is a transit project, the development foresees a new neighbourhood of more than 9,000 homes, built on 31 acres of land. Once it is built, it will provide Chicag
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The Chicago Plan Commission has approved a mixed-use rehabilitation at 4712 W Irving Park Road. The project will rehabilitate and add on to an existing Sears department store which has occupied the si
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1130 N. State Street has been approved by Chicago Plan Commission and will provide more than 300 residential units as well as ground-floor retail space. It is located in the intersection of North Stat
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31 Aug 2021
Mark Buckshon, Chicago Construction News
The fund issued by Chicago allows the construction of a 300-unit apartment building with ground floor retail and a parking podium at 164 N. Peoria Street. The structure is due to be the tallest buildi
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The Halsted Pointe project will be a $1.3 billion project to redevelop an 8-acre site at the southern tip of Goose Island into five high rise buildings. The development will be built over 8 to 10 year
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Four large developments will bring $200 million worth of investment to the South and West sides. The projects will create 215 residential units and 40,000 square feet of retail space. Groundbreakings
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The new Engine Company 115 Fire Station will be the second-largest fire station in the city, with space for a Chicago Fire Department District Office, an Office of Emergency Management and Communicati
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