Quickie: West Loop Office Building May Get Landmark Status
Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the office building at 300 West Adams Street might get landmark status. The 1927 building doesn’t look like anything special to us, but maybe some of you out there...
View ArticleChicago-Henge
If you’re like me, you take a passing interest in the movement of the moon, stars, and sun in the sky over Chicago. If you remember your fifth grade Earth Science class, the vernal equinox happened on...
View ArticleOld Saint Patrick’s Church to Build Office Tower
Yesterday the good people over at the Fulton River District Association posted a note on our Facebook Page, letting people know that after years of talk and speculation, Old Saint Patrick’s Church is...
View ArticleWest Loop Tower Opposition Could Change Design, Landscape
People living in the West Loop are getting a better understanding of their potential new neighbor: a 22-story office tower to be erected on a surface parking lot currently owned by Old Saint Patrick’s...
View ArticleStart Your Road Trip Here
If you’re thinking about taking a summer road trip, consider Route 66. Made famous by a TV show you’ve never seen, the “Mother Road” has attained legendary status through pop culture references in...
View ArticleOld Saint Patrick’s Tower Gets City Blessing
It’s been exactly one year to the day since we heard any noise about the West Loop skyscraper being built for Old Saint Patrick’s Church. We’re about to hear a lot more noise from it. That’s because...
View ArticleWest Loop Model Makers Bring Small Scale To Big Developments [Video]
A few minutes after I entered Columbian Model & Exhibit Works (1528 West Adams Street), I expected to see Lilliputians scurrying around. The exhibit and architectural model company operates out of...
View ArticleThe West Loop’s Mothballed BP Tower May Still Rise Under a Different Name
Christmas came late to Chicago’s skyscraper enthusiasts when last week a plan was announced to erect a 75-story office tower at 601 West Madison Street. For the first time in a long time, their...
View ArticleSmaller Greektown Tower Still Unpopular, Gateway II Faces a Murky Future
An overflow crowd of more than one hundred people, most of them West Loop residents, met last night (February 26th) to learn about the latest plans for Phase II of The Gateway — the mixed-use retail...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Chicago’s Beloved Marquette Building
It is one of those buildings that the unsuspecting might pass right by, its unflashy brown façade and comparatively modest scale giving no overt clues to its architectural significance and the artistic...
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Pan Finds a New Home – Construction Underway on Greektown’s Newest Skyscraper
Arkadia drawing courtesy of FitzGerald Associates. Three days ago, the City of Chicago issued building permits, and site prep is underway, for the latest residential tower to buffer Greektown from...
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Status Update: Arkadia Rising in Greektown
Arkadia under construction Greektown’s latest residential tower is rising along South Halsted Street. Arkadia (765 West Adams Street) has poked above ground and construction crews are rapidly adding...
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Status Update: Not Playing Games at Arkadia
To paraphrase a favorite fictional Chicagoan, Ferris, “Chicago construction moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” That’s the case with Arkadia,...
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Status Update: Greektown’s Newest Column
It used to take a pretty hearty squint at Greektown to envision the city’s plans to line the east side of Halsted Street with skyscrapers to protect this treasured strip of shops and restaurants from...
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Status Update: Pan’s Aerie Labyrinth
Arkadia under construction In Greek mythology, Arkadia is the home of the god Pan. If Pan lived at our Arkadia at 765 West Adams Street in Greektown, he was most certainly have his labyrinth at the...
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New Malcolm X College Campus Making the Grade
The view from our West Loop Bureau On the city’s west side, Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is getting a whole new syllabus. Not just new classes, but new classrooms. And then...
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Idling Chicago Commuters Seeing Loop Link Progress
Loop Link structural work along Madison Street, between Orleans and Wacker. When sitting in your car or on your bus watching pedestrians zoom by, it can be difficult to accept a road construction...
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