Google ignites real estate revival in old Chicago financial hub

A neglected part of downtown Chicago is perking up as Alphabet Inc. redevelops a 1980s-vintage building designed to house ...
Chicago Tribune

Most endangered Chicago buildings list includes Pope Leo’s childhood church and Art Institute trading room

From Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church to the reconstructed and relocated Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room at the Art Institute, Preservation Chicago’s annual ranking of the city’s seven most ...
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A piece of ‘Old Chicago’ amusement park lives on at National Roller Coaster Museum

When Old Chicago opened in Bolingbrook, Illinois back in 1975, it was billed as the country’s first indoor amusement park. Thousands of visitors showed up on opening day to see what the 345,000 square ...
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Will Art Institute expansion leave Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange room in the cold?

The old Chicago Stock Exchange Building trading room — Adler & Sullivan’s gilded age space rescued from demolition 54 years ago — could be uprooted from its longtime Art Institute of Chicago home ...
Chicago Tribune

Walgreens to exit Chicago’s Old Post Office building

Walgreens plans to exit its space at Chicago’s Old Post Office, with its headquarters remaining in Deerfield, the company confirmed Monday — news that comes shortly after the sale of Walgreens to a ...
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What’s That Building? Former Rainforest Café and Capone’s Chicago

If you roll your eyes when passing the corner of Clark and Ohio streets in River North, you’re not the only one. Sneering or even clutching your pearls go back more than 30 years on this site, to the ...