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The Glen Oaks Commons apartment complex in Des Plaines on Aug. 22, 2022.

Glen Oaks Commons in Des Plaines changes hands as rising suburban rents bring in new apartment investors

August 22, 2022 at 3:15 p.m.

Empire Realty Partners Trust has sold Glen Oaks Commons, a 504-unit apartment community in Des Plaines owned by the company for more than 30 years. A company associated with Skokie-based...

Fulton Market is about to get two new skyscrapers

August 16, 2022 at 8:07 p.m.

The Fulton Market neighborhood is about to get two new skyscrapers. Developer Trammell Crow Co. paid about $77 million for a pair of sites just west of Google's Fulton Market...

Ron Eric Edrosa sits at his Veloria Coffee store in the Six Corners area on Aug. 10, 2022, in Chicago.

A wave of development, including a new senior housing complex, is transforming the Northwest Side’s Six Corners area

August 16, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

New development is finally underway throughout the Six Corners area in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood, bringing sighs of relief from residents tired of seeing vacant properties and storefronts. The worst...

The state is soliciting bids for Damen Silos, an abandoned industrial site best known as a backdrop for the 2014 "Transformers" movie.

Pritzker wants to sell off Damen Silos, industrial site that once served as a backdrop in ‘Transformers’ movie

August 16, 2022 at 1:55 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to sell off an abandoned industrial site in Chicago best known as a backdrop for the 2014 Hollywood blockbuster "Transformers: Age of Extinction." The state will...

An aerial view of Park Shore East Co-Op, left, and Jackson Park Terrace, affordable housing communities across the street from proposed site for the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park in Chicago, on May 13, 2020.

Investor buys another affordable housing property, this time next to the Obama Center

August 4, 2022 at 7:09 p.m.

A New York City-based investor with a growing affordable housing portfolio snapped up another Chicago property, this time across the street from the future Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park...

Construction workers secure an engineered wood column onto the deck of the 12th floor of the Ascent apartment building on Aug. 2, 2021, in Milwaukee. Now completed, Ascent is a 25-story tower and the world's tallest hybrid timber building.

The Great Fire slowed interest in wood buildings, but Chicago’s first mass timber tower could soon take shape

August 4, 2022 at 11:39 a.m.

Developer Sterling Bay is set to begin construction of Chicago's first mass timber building, a nine-story, apartment tower in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. If approved by City Council, the $50...

Apartments in the 5900 block of South Normal Boulevard, one of 13 buildings in the Englewood neighborhood collectively know as Englewood Gardens on Aug. 1, 2022.

New York investor continues to expand Chicago footprint, buys 167-unit complex in Englewood for $10.7M

August 2, 2022 at 12:03 p.m.

Jonathan Rose Cos. acquired Englewood Gardens, an apartment portfolio in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, and plans to preserve it all as affordable housing. It's the latest in a series of Chicago...

People wait to check in at Le Meridien Essex Chicago on July 27, 2022, in Chicago.

Lollapalooza ushers in best weekend of the year for downtown hotels, but business travel remains sidelined

July 28, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Lollapalooza is back, and for downtown Chicago hotels it's one of the best weekends of the year. The jolt of energy provided by the massive Grant Park music festival is...

Architect Helmut Jahn looks over drawings of his State of Illinois Center in 1980. (James Mayo/baiduhai)

Google’s plan to take over Thompson Center a shot in the arm for downtown Chicago and for Gov. J.B. Pritzker

July 27, 2022 at 6:08 p.m.

Nearly two decades after the state first considered a sale of the James R. Thompson Center, Google's agreement to buy the iconic but controversial Loop building marks a key victory...

Customers shop at Central Camera at 230 S. Wabash Ave. on July 20, 2022.

Downtown Chicago is awash in summer tourists. But a key driver of retail activity is missing: office workers.

July 24, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Tourists have returned to Chicago's downtown this summer, and anyone looking at the crowds thronging Millennium Park, the Riverwalk and stores on Michigan Avenue might think the city's pandemic crisis...

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