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A man walks through a business corridor with several Italian-themed restaurants and stores in the 3400 block of North Harlem Avenue, April 19, 2024, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

City planners say it’s time to put Northwest Side’s Little Italy on the map

April 22, 2024 at 6:24 a.m.

A long-running effort to turn a stretch of Harlem Avenue on the Far Northwest side into a showcase for Italian American businesses like Little Italy's Taylor Street is inching forward.

The Western Felt Works building at 4115 W. Ogden Ave. in Chicago is seen on April 16, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Southwest Side warehouses considered significant by preservationists face demolition

April 16, 2024 at 5:01 p.m.

The Chicago Plan Commission will vote Thursday on whether to approve the demolition.

A resident works in a shared study room at The Reed, a new condominium and rental building in the South Loop on April 2, 2024. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Downtown Chicago’s condo development boom has ended. Here’s why.

April 12, 2024 at 6:27 a.m.

High interest rates and construction costs have brought condo construction to an end.

Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp. wants to launch the construction of an 11-story, 90-unit building at 5853 N. Broadway St. in Edgewater. (LBBA)

Edgewater and Logan Square could see new affordable housing towers as nonprofit developer spreads its wings

March 27, 2024 at 12:48 p.m.

Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp. wants to launch the construction of a 90-unit building at 5853 N. Broadway St. in Edgewater.

Fans line up to enter Guaranteed Rate Field before the Chicago White Sox home opening game on April 3, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Could the Chicago White Sox really move to Nashville? It’s complicated.

March 26, 2024 at 9:04 a.m.

White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf pushed back last summer against rumors the team could abandon its South Side home for Nashville, but his December meeting with that city’s mayor kept...

Developer GW Properties has proposed replacing the now-vacant former Peoples Gas site at 3955 N. Kilpatrick Ave., just east of the Six Corners intersection, with several retail buildings and a 346-unit apartment building, pictured in this rendering.(GW Properties and Pappageorge Haymes Architects)

Plan Commission approves new development for Portage Park, the ‘final piece of the puzzle’

March 21, 2024 at 6:10 p.m.

Commission members pressured the developer to include more affordable housing on-site.

Passersby walk near the Wrigley Field entrance marquee in Wrigleyville on the final day of the 2023 MLB regular season on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. (Trent Sprague/baiduhai)

Chicago Cubs unveil plan for new rooftop signs, and say they’re bringing back an old tradition

March 21, 2024 at 8:06 a.m.

The Chicago Cubs are asking the City Council to allow the team's owners to install LED rooftop signs on two buildings outside Wrigley Field.

New Target store will help revive Six Corners, neighbors say

March 18, 2024 at 5:17 p.m.

The 44,000-square-foot Target is on the ground floor of the former Sears store.

1326 South Michigan, a 500-unit South Loop apartment tower, is seen on March 14, 2024, in Chicago. It recently sold for about $144 million, making it the largest apartment sale in Chicago so far this year. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

South Loop apartment tower sold for $144M in biggest Chicago apartment deal so far this year

March 14, 2024 at 5:33 p.m.

The 500-unit building was completed in 2019 by CIM Group

A warehouse building in North Lawndale on Feb. 29, 2024, that the Steans Family Foundation is being rehabbed into The Fillmore Center, a new business and manufacturing center. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Fillmore Center project, touted as jobs engine for struggling North Lawndale, clears city commission

March 6, 2024 at 6:30 a.m.

The Fillmore Center project is expected to bring up to 300 jobs through a commercial laundry and several minority-owned businesses, including a coffee roastery and a flower wholesaler.

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