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Miracle on Chicago Avenue

One of the Streeterville/Gold Coast’s scuzzier blocks is getting some sort of clean up. While hustling to the Red Line stop at Chicago and State in -17ºF weather, it was hard not to notice the big...

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Miracle on Chicago Avenue: Update

Well, that didn’t take long.  Word on the street (literally — I ran into someone on the street with the answer) is that the demolition of the Dunkin’ Donuts, Tony’s, the vacant storefront, and the...

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Miracle on Chicago Avenue: Update 2

Well, just hours after our last update, Crain’s Chicago Business published an article filling in the blanks for us . Looks like the cost of the project is $9,000,000 and will be five stories tall.  And...

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Children’s Hospital Gets Its Crane On

If you follow our Twitter tweet feed , then you got the alert on February 5th when the crane went up at the new Children’s Memorial Hospital on Chicago Avenue.  Now that it’s in place, construction is...

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Status Update: The still unnamed new Loyola building

Only a couple of weeks after we posted our article about Loyola University planning to tear down a grungy strip of retail stores on Chicago Avenue it actually happened. Though Crain’s Chicago Business...

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Status Update: Children’s Memorial Hospital

Things are moving along quickly at the new Children’s Memorial Hospital on Chicago Avenue.  Since the tower crane went up a few weeks ago.  The elevator core is now up to about the fifth floor and the...

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Status Update: Children’s Memorial Hospital

Here’s a look at how far the new Children’s Memorial Hospital on Chicago Avenue is coming along.  The elevator core is rising quickly, and the steel isn’t far behind.  Already there’s steel in place...

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Kiosks Vanish in the Gold Coast

Editor’s note:  This article was scheduled to run on Monday, but since Crain’s moved its version tonight, I pushed this up as well.—————-One of the few 24-hour stores in downtown Chicago is gone.  Not...

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Start Spreadin’ the News on Michigan Avenue

Last week we noted the disappearance of two of the city’s higher-profile newsstands.  The kiosk on the corner of Chicago and Michigan Avenues and the one at the corner of State and Division Streets in...

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Status Update: Children’s Memorial Hospital

The new Children’s Memorial Hospital (officially, The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago) continues its growth spurt at 225 East Chicago Avenue.  The steel frame of the...

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Not Much Information: That Honkeytonk Place

From the Not Much Information file: Remember that honkeytonk-looking joint on the corner of Chicago Avenue and Dearborn Street?  Remember how it closed about a year ago?  Well, it’s back — this time...

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Another Chocolate Shop Coming to Chicago

Leonidas has put up a sign in the vacant space at the base of The Chicagoan promising to bring Belgian chocolate delicacies to downtown Chicago.  It’s opening in what was formerly a Bank of America...

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More on the Leonidas Chocolate Opening

A couple of weeks ago we noted the impending opening of a Leonidas chocolate shop at 59 East Chicago Avenue. One of our readers wrote in to let us know that this isn’t the first Leonidas in Chicago.  A...

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New Children’s Hospital is Hanging Out

In what may be the first of many “Look ma! No hands!” moments around the new Children’s Memorial Hospital, the building has begun its horizontal expansion over the alley to its east. We’ve done a...

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Status Update: Children’s Memorial Hospital

This is probably the six zillionth status update we’ve done for the new Children’s Memorial Hospital (225 East Chicago Avenue). But I happened to be in a hospital and managed to snap this picture of...

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Slice of Life: When Cranes Snuggle

A pair of cranes working on the new Children’s Memorial Hospital (225 East Chicago Avenue) take a snuggle break in the middle of the day.  Awwwwww.

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Status Update: Children’s Memorial Hospital

From most angles, the new Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Memorial Hospital (225 East Chicago Avenue) appears done, but there is still much work to be done. The facade was officially completed in...

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New Near North Skyscraper Will Preserve Piano History, Bury Your Childhood

“Here we grow again!” said nobody at Smithfield Properties last week when it submitted its plans to the City of Chicago for a 34-story residential building on the corner of West Chicago Avenue and...

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Slice of Life: A Landmark Neutered

It’s been more than a year since the iconic neon red YMCA sign was taken off of the Lawson House (30 West Chicago Avenue), but it’s still hard to get used to.  A Gold Coast spy recently sent in these...

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“Missing Tooth in Chicago’s Urban Fabric” Expected to be Quickly Filled by...

Drawing of Chicago+LaSalle courtesy of Berkelhamer Architects The newest residential tower planned for Chicago’s Near North Side is sailing through the bureaucratic process , and is expected to be...

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Status Update: The Location of 805 North LaSalle

Have you noticed the signs around the construction site at 805 North LaSalle Street?  They’re not so much signs as giant ransom notes spelling out “Location” like a 1980’s art director who’s just...

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Yeah, Why Don’t You Meet Me For Lunch At The Cat-Piloted Flying Saucer 

I don’t know about you, but the office I work in doesn’t have a tiki bar. Or an enchanted forest. Or a giant cat in a flying saucer. Well, you might have those amenities in your workplace… if you work...

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The Hudson Begins Flowing Along Chicago Avenue

The tower crane started sprouting in early November as foundation workers continued digging at The Hudson. The Hudson (750 North Hudson Avenue) is scratching and clawing its way up from the dirt at the...

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The Hudson May Now Proceed Upward

Rebar dominates the landscape, for now, at The Hudson. If you notice The Hudson with a little extra swagger in its step this week, there’s good reason. This proclamation from the City of Chicago...

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It’s Been a While, But Downtown Lake Shore Drive Reconfig Still “Has a Chance”

Lake Shore Drive reconstruction proposal It’s been over five years since we first heard about city plans to re-configure Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago.  A lot of work has been done on the Drive...

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