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A Peek Inside Private Chicago
There are a lot of nooks and crannies of Chicago that are reserved for certain types of people. The adventurers. The disadvantaged. The well-connected. The well-moneyed. Each group of people seems...
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Two New Skyscrapers, Otherwise a Modest Future for Union Station
Proposed Amtrak Tower at 300 South Canal Street Last night Amtrak and the Chicago Department of Transportation detailed plans for the future of Chicago’s Union Station. Union Station is the last of the...
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Status Update: West Loop Target
We swung by the new West Loop Target (1111 West Jackson Boulevard) recently to see how construction is coming along, and construction is coming along nicely. Rising at the corner of West Jackson and...
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Union Station Master Plan Finished
The Union Station Master Plan has been completed, and it doesn’t look all that much different from the proposals put forth by Amtrak, Metra, and the Chicago Department of Transportation at the...
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Chicago’s Ugliest Building Gets a Facelift, Thanks to You
The squat, nasty box that in was voted the ugliest building in Chicago has a brand new look. It was the readers of the Chicago Tribune whose votes gave 16 West Jackson Street its dubious title back in...
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Status Update: Loop Coffee Barn
The Pickwick Stable under construction It’s hard to see behind the tarps and barricades and scaffolding, but progress is being made on one of the more unusual conversions to come down the pike in...
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Your OHC Photos: Chicago Board of Trade
Recently we put the call out on the Chicago Architecture Blog’s Facebook and Twitter feeds for people who went to the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Open House Chicago event to share their photos....
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New West Loop Apartment Block to Break Ground This Month
601 West Jackson drawing courtesy of Thomas Roszak Architecture. Half a year ago we brought you the story of 601 West Jackson, the 15-story residential block intended for the southwest corner of West...
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