Buyer sought for Roosevelt Road firehouse

03/09/2010 4:41 PM

The City of Chicago is seeking a buyer for an empty fire station at 1123 W. Roosevelt. Built in 1873, the structure has been empty since the summer of 2008, when the fire department's Engine Company 18 moved out of the building and into a new, modern station at 1360 S. Blue Island. (No Comments) Read more...

• Generators on the agenda tonight

   03/09/2010 9:29 AM

• Cocaine bust in the South Loop

   03/05/2010 7:18 PM

• New Yorker on Daley

   03/05/2010 9:38 AM

Puck pursuit


Amateur hockey players skidded across the ice on a recent day at Johnny’s Ice House in the West Loop, doing their best impression of pro skaters who skirmish down the street on Madison at the United Center.
JASON GEIL/Staff Photographer



Refi at Sky 55

Rental market forces 'tremendous concessions' at South Loop building

03/03/2010 10:00 PM

The battered economy has a prominent development group seeking permission to restructure the financing behind Sky 55, a glassy, 40-story tower that was one of the first rental buildings to go up in the South Loop during the boom years.
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Epic road work on its way

Four big projects will start April 1

03/03/2010 10:00 PM

Four interconnected road construction projects starting this spring will necessitate drastic, temporary changes to the usual entry and exit points to the Loop, and are expected to displace drivers from interstate highways to alternative routes cutting through city neighborhoods.
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New plan for old county

Board seeks office conversion for vacant hospital

03/03/2010 10:00 PM

Old county hospital may get a new lease on life following the affirmative vote Cook County commissioners cast Tuesday for a plan that would see the vacant structure converted into medical offices.
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Project review

Frustration after zoning passes for dorm at Wabash and Van Buren

03/03/2010 10:00 PM

Some South Loop residents want Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) to clarify how community members are to weigh in on development pitches in the neighborhood, following the sudden passage last week of a zoning change needed for a student dorm near Printers Row.
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