Perkins + Will is an eighty-year-old architecture firm with noteworthy designs across the world, including the 850-foot Chase Tower in Chicago, where the firm is based. Its architects have designed un
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The Trump administration paused $2.1 billion in federal funding for Chicago transit infrastructure that had already been signed off on during the Biden administration. White House budget director Russ
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Chicago Construction News staff writer The Chicago Plan Commission has adopted the Red Line Extension (RLE) Transit-Supportive Development (TSD) plan. Led by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) in par
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The Chicago Plan Commission approved Thursday a plan to renovate a vacant warehouse building in the Armour Square neighborhood on the South Side into dozens of solar-powered apartments. Developer A.J.
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The wave of store closures over the past several years has begun making an impact on Chicago’s retail market, Marcus & Millichap reported. Space is being absorbed more slowly than in prior years, espe
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onstruction of the second stage of the River North Chicago mixed-use complex can now begin. This is because a complete building permit has been issued to North Wells Capital for the development of the
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The Chicago Department of Planning and Development (CPD) has published a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) regarding the eventual development of land the city currently owns next to the Kedzie Green Li
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Neighbors of the former Halsted Indoor Mall parking lot in West Roseland crammed into a church to vent frustration over plans to transform the lot into a temporary migrant shelter, chanting, “No migra
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16 Apr 2024
Chicago Construction News staff writer
The Chicago Transit Authority released renderings for the new, fully accessible Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations last week, after announcing $111 million from the department of transpor
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC7 is teaming up with the Chicago Architecture Center as part of a new series called Chicago Uncovered to showcase locations, new and old, that distinguish Chicago among other citie
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11 Jul 2022
Kristine Klein, The Architect's Newspaper
A lofty proposal to redevelop Chicago’s Museum Campus proposes increasing the 57-acre park complex’s accessibility and connectivity to the greater metropolitan area and connecting the myriad cultural
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13 May 2024
Chicago Construction News staff writer
Mayor Brandon Johnson says his first year in office was a good one for building and repairing affordable housing across Chicago. “In the past year, we have shifted from patchwork solutions to pioneeri
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This past week, Chicago YIMBY toured Foundry at Wendelin Park, a 27-story mixed-use tower at 1475 North Kingsbury Street in Near North Side. Undertaken by Structured Development alongside White Oak Re
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The dynamic closed-loop system uses groundwater to reject and absorb heat to provide year-round space conditioning for a 130-year-old elementary school, Trane Technologies says. Dive Brief: A novel ge
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Department of Assets, Information and Services (AIS) has announced that by 2025, all city-owned buildings and facilities in the city will be fully operated with cl
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10 Aug 2022
Matt Hickman, The Architect's Newspaper
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced this week that her administration’s plan to purchase clean, renewable energy for all city-owned facilities and operations by 2025 will move ahead following the f
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On Wednesday, the mayor’s office announced Chicago’s Garfield Green housing proposal was selected as a winner in C40’s global Reinventing Cities competition. Now, the design team will take steps to ma
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For home sellers, the good times keep on rolling. Despite fears of a looming international trade war and a brutally cold winter, a report from brokerage RE/MAX indicates that overall home prices remai
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Chicago Construction News staff writer Reconstruction of the Jane Byrne Interchange is a finalist for the grand prize in the America’s Transportation Awards, top honor for state departments of transpo
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