Spire won't get bailed out by union funds
12/21/2009
The developer behind the Spire development needs about $170 million to move forward. Four major labor union pension funds won't be investing in the mega-project, however. Read More...
Fulton Market, as seen by one of Canada's papers
12/17/2009
The Globe and Mail, one of the top papers in Canada, takes a look at the Fulton Market shopping, eating and drinking district, on the northern end of the West Loop. Via Gapers Block. Read More...
Amid protests, CPS tweaks admissions process
12/17/2009
It was a raucous day down at the Board of the Education meeting yesterday. The board trimmed back the original proposal for a new selective enrollment system. Read More...
Reccommendations for recession-era Chicago
12/16/2009
Vet Crain's columnist Greg Hinz offers up some advice to Mayor Daley about the direction and future of the city as it weathers the economic recession. (Registration required to access this column.) Read More...
Selective enrollment process could be protested
12/10/2009
The Sun-Times is reporting that the Black Star Project wants to bring 1,000 people to protest changes to the CPS selective enrollment system at the Dec. 16 Board of Education meeting. Read More...
South Loop retail center in bankruptcy
12/09/2009
The owners of a five-story commercial building at 555 W. Roosevelt, in the hear of the South Loop big-box area, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Crain's reports today. Read More...
New city budget uses meter reserves
12/03/2009
Twelve aldermen - Fioretti, Dowell and Reilly among them - voted against the budget pitched by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Read More...
UIC sues over dorm cost overruns
12/01/2009
The University of Illinois-Chicago is suing two architecture firms and an engineering group for alleged cost overruns at the school's new dorm and convocation center near Halsted and Roosevelt. Read More...
What's wrong with McCormick Place?
11/23/2009
Crain's examines the issues bedeviling Chicago's convention center, located near the lakefront on the Near South Side. Read More...
Oprah and the Chicago media
11/23/2009
Longtime Chicago media columnist Robert Feder talks about Oprah's evolution over the years. Read More...