Developers and city officials view the conversions as an opportunity to transform downtown Chicago into a full-fledged ...

An upzoning plan could cannibalize the very urban vibrancy that has made Edgewater so appealing in the first place.

Brooklyn-based investor rapidly acquired about 500 units in the Windy City in 2022 and 2023; many are now in distress.

While Sterling Bay hopes the sale price would be high enough to cover the debt and stave off foreclosure, recent sales of downtown office buildings suggest the property is worth far less.

Oak Park’s electrification ordinance is the target of legal action by natural gas and construction interest groups ...

Earlier this year, wildfires ravaged Los Angeles for almost a month. Destroying historical landmarks and reshaping the city ...

Even though the open-air drug market at SW 4th and Washington in downtown Portland has largely dissipated, the ugliness and ...

Shortly after doffing his cowboy hat with a flourish from atop his horse, like the idolized hero of a Western movie, the ...

Jack Jordan, executive director at Climate Action Evanston, said that, with the second Trump administration at the levers of ...

On a gusty day in February, Ben Burke and Johanna Ostrum toured Jennings 1, an idle oil well in Pierce. Hemmed in by a fence ...

It's an audacious effort by the city of Chicago to pay for hundreds of of megawatts of clean energy to offset power usage in the airports and every firehouse, police district, library and city-owned ...

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