A group of people on floor 96 of the former John Hancock Center in Chicago became entrapped on their elevator to the ground floor over...

A 47-story condo tower known as Cirrus readies to break ground in Chicago. Located steps from Lake Michigan, Navy Pier, Maggie Daley Park, and the...

EQ Office, the US office portfolio company owned by Blackstone, has reopened Willis Tower’s Wacker Drive lobby, featuring a new, one-of-a-kind art installation created by...

Online job marketplace Glassdoor plans to hire 500 employees in Chicago over the next few years and has expanded its office in the Fulton Market...

Downtown Chicago’s booming tech scene is in for another big jump. Accenture will be expanding into seven floors of the newly named Accenture Tower, bringing...

A federal judge declared Tuesday, 11 June, 2019 that “construction should commence without delay” on the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park....

Vista Tower reached its final height on April 26 2019, when construction workers poured concrete to form the Chicago skyscraper’s 101st and final floor. That...

The owners of the Chicago Board of Trade Building are putting the landmark tower up for sale, looking to cash out with a big profit...

Chicago-based developer Newcastle Limited has presented its plans for a pair of mixed-use Gold Coast developments. The two State Street projects would replace a cluster...

After some aldermanic debate and occasional protester outbursts, the Chicago City Council approved up to $2.4 billion in public subsidies to support The 78 and...

One of Chicago’s busiest real estate developers wants to build a 47-story residential and hotel tower on a stretch of North Michigan. Sterling Bay is...

The development team behind the new Bank of America Tower going up at 110 N. Wacker Drive today announced a 58,000-square-foot (5,388-square-meter) lease with No18,...

Chicago’s City Council has approved multiple new projects that are set to change the face of the skyline. Sterling Bay’s Lincoln Yards was approved by...

The US$6 billion Lincoln Yards megadevelopment will include 600 affordable housing units – twice as many as required in a compromise by Sterling Bay as...

The owner of the Chicago Spire site could have another year to begin developing the lakefront site, four months after a downtown alderman rejected a...

A $6 billion development that would transform 55 acres (22 hectares) along the North Branch of the Chicago River is a key step closer to...

The developer that built the Waldorf Astoria hotel and condominium tower about a decade ago is dipping back into the market for ultra-luxe condos in...

A pair of developers hoping to build the tallest tower in the Fulton Market District of Chicago have cut down their plan by eight floors...

A 26-story apartment tower is ready to break ground in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood after receiving its first construction permit on March 19. The South...

On 19 November 2019, developers unveiled updated plans for a mixed-use supertall tower slated for the parking lot just east of Chicago’s landmark Tribune Tower....

Work is set to begin in December 2019 on a 1.5 million-square-foot (139,000-square-meter) office tower alongside Union Station, after the developers landed a US$476 million...

Global architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) announced the groundbreaking on 20 December 2019 for Union Station Tower, also known as BMO Tower, a new 50-story...

Chicago’s lakefront rarely sees much in the way of new development since most of the prime waterfront real estate is already built-up. But in the...

Chicago officials approved two high-rise apartment developments that would build 920 apartments in Fulton Market despite criticism that few apartments would be set aside for...

Real estate investment firm Heitman has inked a lease for 60,000 square feet (5,600 square meters) at Riverside Investment & Development and Howard Hughes’ under-construction...

Lendlease and Magellan Development have landed US$283 million in construction financing for their two residential towers rising in Chicago’s Lakeshore East. The projects will have...

bKL Architecture, a firm headquartered at the Aqua tower in Chicago's Lakeshore East neighborhood, is doing its part to be of service during the COVID-19...

Eleven new developments bringing a combined 1,083 units of affordable housing to Chicago’s North, South, and West sides are moving forward after being selected by...

New Jersey-based Strategic Properties of North America (SPNA) has partnered with South Korean investor Mirae Asset Daewoo to acquire a luxury Chicago apartment building for...

Development of the 60-story Salesforce Tower has kicked off along the Chicago River after the project secured a US$500 million-plus construction loan that is one of the...

How high-rise living has transformed Chicago's skyline The great Chicago apartment boom reshaped the city’s skyline with dozens of fancy new high-rises. But it didn’t...

A 102-story skyscraper known as Tribune East Tower could become Chicago’s second tallest building in the coming years, after aldermen on Wednesday, 20 May, 2020...

After significantly scaling back their plans to finally fill in the massive hole left behind by the abandoned 2,000-foot (609-meter) Chicago Spire project, developers will...

The Aon Center has paused plans to build an observatory with a thrill ride atop Chicago’s third-tallest skyscraper, and the US$185 million project will start...

One of Chicago’s busiest luxury residential developers wants to build a 43-story apartment high-rise using air rights from a Near North Side church, but nearby...

A Helmut Jahn-designed skyscraper along South Michigan Avenue is on hold at least until September 2020 and buyers of the luxury units are being offered...

One of Chicago’s highest-altitude restaurants is for sale, offering the rare opportunity for another restaurant — or a resident — to take over the top...

Two major Chicago developers are expected to break ground next month on a 47-story apartment and hotel tower on North Michigan Avenue, in what would...

The Chicago developer building the 101-story Vista Tower on the Chicago River has agreed to buy out its majority Chinese partner for US$270 million, ending...

Early 2021 groundbreaking planned for $6 billion Lincoln Yards megadevelopment on North Side Sterling Bay plans to break ground on the US$6 billion Lincoln Yards...

Mies van der Rohe’s workhorse tower gets a vibrant remake as a dorm at Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology. On the first floor of a...

A 57-story apartment tower in the Streeterville neighborhood plans to convert some of its office space to small classrooms, betting that frazzled families will seek...

David Kuta thought about his next-door neighbor when he opened the front door of his 32nd-floor condo on the Near East Side and saw thick...

A new 3.5 acre (1.4 hectare) park stretching three city blocks is now open in the southwest corner of the Loop. But most people will...

Dynegy today announced that it has entered into a multi-year partnership with Chicago's iconic Willis Tower to provide 100% renewable electricity to the Tower. "Sustainability...

Chicago landlord Horizon Realty Group has acquired a Lincoln Park apartment building for US$64 million, a price suggesting that multifamily values might not be falling...

A San Francisco investment firm is paying US$190 million for a new 56-story luxury apartment tower along Grant Park, the biggest Chicago multifamily sale of...

Reports of the demise of co-working during the pandemic are greatly exaggerated, if you ask the owner of Willis Tower. In a bet on the...

James Loewenberg, a Chicago architect-turned-developer with a portfolio that includes the Aqua and Vista Tower skyscrapers in downtown Chicago, has died at age 86 after...

A California luxury hotel company has purchased the former Hard Rock Hotel on Michigan Avenue and will rebrand it after giving the historic building its...

JDL Development plans nearly 2,700 homes on Near North Side property it would buy from the Moody Bible Institute, one of the biggest residential developments...

After quietly breaking ground nearly two years ago, the 893-foot (272-meter) apartment tower known as NEMA Chicago has grown to dominate downtown’s southern skyline. The...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is looking to expand the City’s Transit Oriented Development (TOD) policy to more than 20 high-ridership bus routes along eight major corridors...

BMO Harris Bank will consolidate its Chicago offices in 2022 at a new 50-story tower next to Union Station, the bank announced on 10 December...

After buying a pair of historic Chicago properties and the city's Major League Soccer franchise, Joe Mansueto is making another high-profile purchase: The Waldorf Astoria...

Salesforce on Friday, November 30, 2018 will announce plans to anchor a new riverfront skyscraper and add at least 1,000 jobs to its Chicago workforce...

Developer Sterling Bay will present revised plans for its $5 billion-plus Lincoln Yards mixed-use development in a public meeting on Nov. 29, 2018.  Shorter skyscrapers —...

The soaring Vista Tower, the newest addition to Chicago’s famed skyline, now has a new name: St. Regis Chicago. The skyscraper also has a new...

COVID-19 has slowed Chicago’s economy, but two bullish developers have drawn up ambitious plans that would bring a combined 1,200 apartments to two city neighborhoods....

Construction on Cascade has topped out 396 feet (120 meters) over Lakeshore East. Officially addressed at 455 E Waterside Drive, Cascade is part of the...

Renderings have been revealed for The Reed, the second residential tower at Southbank. Located on a 7.5-acre (3.03-hectare), waterfront site, Southbank is a megadevelopment that...

EQ Office revealed Atmospheric wave wall, a new cultural landmark and the first public art installation in Chicago by globally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson. Prominently...

The developer of a big high-rise proposed just north of Millennium Park has scaled back its plans, slashing the number of hotel rooms in the...

The owner of one of Chicago’s biggest office towers is investing US$6.5 million to demolish and redesign its half-acre (0.2-hectare) plaza in anticipation of greater...

After losing their financing last year, the New York City developers of a stalled 74-story residential high-rise next to Grant Park are trying to jump-start...

The state of Illinois has bought a West Loop office building, a move that ought to erase any doubt it soon will fully vacate the...

United Airlines is shrinking its Willis Tower headquarters, where it has about 30 percent fewer workers than before the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline today confirmed...

The implosion of a New York real estate investment firm has undermined plans for two major developments in Chicago, including a hotel in the Fulton...

The developers planning to turn the former Michael Reese Hospital site in Bronzeville into a 49-acre (19.8-hectare) mixed-use campus over the next two decades took...

A Canadian developer plans two high-rises with more than 1,000 apartments next to Presidential Towers in the West Loop, a big vote of confidence in...