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Many Chicago buyers and sellers manage to close on a home amid the pandemic, but others have not been so lucky. For Cameron Leavitt, a construction manager who was in the middle of buying a unit ...
Before Richard Nickel lost his life in the old Stock Exchange Building, the photographer helped energize Chicago’s historic preservation movement with his images of another lost Adler & Sullivan ...
For trickier items Linens, towels, sheets: Local animal shelters will gladly take these items to use for bath time, make bedding, and craft new toys. A good place to start in Chicago is The Anti ...
A visionary idea to create a deck over the Kennedy Expressway with a public park between Chicago’s central business district and the West Loop is getting attention after a long hiatus. The ...
The new year is here and promises to be a big one for the future of Chicago’s built environment. In 2020, a number of major projects are on the horizon. Expect grand unveilings, significant ...
Since its humble beginnings as a reading room inside a repurposed water tower tank in 1873, the Chicago Public Library system has sprouted 81 branches. Throughout its history, the CPL has occupied ...
Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez hold a CIty Hall press conference advocating for the Development For All Ordinance. Jay Koziarz/Curbed Chicago As Chicago struggles with an affordable housing crisis ...
1. Chicago School This bold commercial style of architecture emerged a decade after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, as the buildings constructed immediately after the city’s rapid rebuild became ...
What $900 rents in Chicago right now Options include a coliving apartment in Pilsen and a one-bedroom with original details in an Irving Park.
In a move to protect Chicago’s beaches and lakefront trail from a near record high water levels, the city will install hundreds of yards of concrete jersey barriers at eight locations along Lake ...
With little fanfare, crews recently broke ground at “The 78,” a massive development replacing a 62-acre vacant lot along the Chicago River’s south branch. Last week, crews operating half a ...
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