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Digging In For One Chicago’s Two New Towers
One Chicago (the buildings, not the futures exchange) is one of the projects we’re watching more closely these days. Which is why we’re happy to report that progress is… progressing. The city block...
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Persistent Perimeter Pounding Perturbs Petite Pizza Parlor
Let’s hope the machines building One Chicago don’t have bad breath, because they’re all up in Bella Luna’s grill. Foundation work at One Chicago, with Bella Luna in the foreground. (August 2019,...
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Here’s What it Looks Like Under Chicago’s Newest Skyscraper
Real estate folk are always trying to “get in on the ground floor” of the next big thing. The next big thing in the Gold Coast is One Chicago. And the person in on the ground floor is Joe Zekas from...
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That’s One Chicago You’ve Got Growing There
If you went to midnight mass at Holy Name Cathedral on Christmas Eve, you may have noticed two things. First, the absence of the traditional phalanx of public servants, from the mayor and police chief...
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Pix and Video: One Chicago Construction Update
March is finally here. And while you’re waiting for the tulips to sprout along Michigan Avenue, and the daffodils to sprout in Lincoln Park, check out what’s sprouting on the southwest corner of...
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Since You Can’t Go Out, Here’s Construction Photos From One Chicago
Remember back when you were searching for a new place in downtown Chicago, and you said to yourself, “I don’t need to pay extra for a nice view — I’ll hardly ever be home!” Ah, good times. If all you...
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You Stay Glassy, One Chicago
The first panes of glass are in place at One Chicago, the pair of residential towers rising in what used to be Holy Name Cathedral’s parking lot. June 2020 photo of One Chicago under construction...
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One Chicago Has So Much Glass
There’s a race going on at the corner of State Street and Chicago Avenue. Across from Holy Name Cathedral, it seems like two teams of construction workers are in a competition. The concrete people,...
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Photo Update: One Chicago
Remember when you were a little kid playing with your Tonka trucks and Erector set and pretending you were building something monumental? These guys don’t have to pretend. Here’s the latest One Chicago...
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Getting All Glassy Over AMLI 808
One of Chicago’s newest residential buildings now has some glass on it. Near North Spy Mike sent in this photo of construction on the northwest corner of West Chicago Avenue and North Wells Street,...
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One Chicago Reaches 50 Stories, and Still Climbing
This time last year, we were hoping to see a pair of brand new skyscrapers completed across the street from Holy Name Cathedral when we showed up Christmas 2020 mass. But that’s not going to happen....
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West Loop Skyscraper to Further the Isolation of Kennedy Expressway
Last week we learned two interesting things. First, the correct 12 Days of Christmas lyric is “Four colly birds,” not “Four calling birds.” Colly bird is a dusty term for any random blackbird. And...
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Kennedy-Encroaching Skyscraper Broaching the West Loop This Week
If you dig those Japanese car racing games where you speed through an idealized, canyonized, urbanized Celtic knot in the dark, there’s good news for your inner Speed Racer. The Kennedy Expressway is...
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Downtown Chicago’s Latest Mega Development Hits City Hall With 4,000+ New Homes
A large, underutilized slice of downtown Chicago is about to get utilized out the wazoo. Detailed paperwork has hit City Hall for North Union, the hefty plan to turn a five block slab of Near North...
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As One Chicago Shapes Up, Cranes Come Down
It was mid-April when the construction sentinels at YoChicago! told us that the crane was about to come down from the 49-story portion of the One Chicago project. Now Gold Coast Spy Jody has sent in...
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Enormous North Union Dev Plan Approved
The plan to plant five blocks of downtown Chicago with seven skyscrapers and high rises has been approved by the Chicago Plan Commission. Look for the project name “North Union” to start popping up in...
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Kennedy Canyon Closer to Completion
The long-term plan to line the Kennedy Expressway with skyscrapers like some 1990’s Japanese video game is about to take another big leap forward. Chicago City Council has approved 640 West Washington...
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Chicago’s Newest Skyscraper Tops Off
Just two years ago, the prime block of downtown Chicago at the corner of State and Chicago was a surface parking lot, a row of time-worn brick buildings, and a really quite good pizza parlor. Old...
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Five Building Goose Island Project Seeks Approval This Week
Canadian builder Onni Group heads to the Chicago Plan Commission this week to ask for permission to transform the old Greyhound bus yard at the southern tip of Goose Island into a mixed-use skyscraper...
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Bridg Comes Tumbling Down in West Town
Another West Town touchstone is becoming brimstone. The Bridgford Foods building at 170 North Green Street will soon be a memory, according to the West Loop Community Organization. It says that CRG,...
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