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Slice of Life: Two Trains That Pass on the Right
Two CTA Brown Line trains pass one another on the upper level of the Wells Street Bridge over the Chicago River while cars and pedestrians do the same on the level below. Did you enjoy this article?...
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Status Update: 201 North Wells
The garage portion of 201 North Wells is done as the shiny new skyscraper begins climbing above its neighboring building. This is easily one of the noisiest corners in the city, and hopefully the new...
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Is This a Piece of Chicago’s Railroading History?
Next to a surface parking lot along Wells Street south of Polk is something unusual. This CrappyCameraPhonetm shot doesn’t do it justice. It’s a vertical steel I-beam sticking out of the ground. To...
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Transit Pawn
If you ride CTA trains for any length of time, chances are you have a favorite stop. The Addison Red LIne station (940 West Addison Street) is always a big winner in any El popularity contest, as is...
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Details of the British School’s South Loop Expansion
Plans for a new campus of the British School of Chicago were shown to the public this weekend, and may have gone a long way towards assuaging neighborhood fears. The thoroughly greenwashed building...
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A Historic Look at the Changing Leaves on the Wells Street Bridge
The new (sixth) Wells Street Bridge is being put in place. Starting tonight the remaining piece of the fifth Wells Street Bridge (the brown section on the left) will be cut out and replaced. The...
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200 West Randolph is Content to be a Darned Good Office Building
200 West Randolph Street proposal courtesy of Beitler Real Estate Services The pulses of skyscraper nerds across the Midwest quickened a couple of weeks ago when we published news that the Chicago Loop...
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Status Update: The Wells Street Bridge – Stay Away From Those Cans
The Wells Street Bridge is the Navin R. Johnson of the Chicago River bridges — Shiny, new, and much paler than its brothers. Unlike Navin, however, Wells isn’t doomed to stay that color. The new Wells...
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200 West Randolph is Dead, Long Live 151 North Franklin
200 West Randolph, we hardly knew ye. The 23-story office building that just a few short weeks ago was expected to rise at the corner of West Randolph Street and North Wells Street is now a thing of...
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Third New Building Announced for Two Blocks of River North
The River North side of LaSalle Street is where it’s at these days. Less than a week after a public meeting was held for two new residential towers proposed for 720 North LaSalle Street and 167 East...
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DIRTT Environmental Solutions Boasts Airy, Open Work Environment At Rivers Edge
A number of times when I’ve interviewed for jobs over the years, there’s been a temptation to ask whether the office has windows. I find windowless office spaces grim and depressing. Studies have...
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Steelers Visit Walter Payton College Prep
` Just over a year ago, we were waiting patiently for the decision on funding for a new annex to be built at Walter Payton College Prep High School (1034 North Wells Street). As anyone who’s ridden...
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Tuesday Trivia: Evidence of Chicago’s Fifth Avenue
Chicago is a city of names. Names that are ever-changing. Chicago Air Park became Midway Airport. The Chicago-Kansas City Highway became the Eisenhower Expressway. And Wells Street was once Fifth...
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New Fence Parks Itself at 205 West Hubbard Street
The 205 West Hubbard half of the parking lot is fenced off. Wait…is that possible? Probably not. More likely, work is getting ready to start at 205 West Hubbard Street in Chicago’s River North...
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Three More Pieces of Chicago’s Skyline Headed to the Scrapyard
The Lock Up Self Storage water tank, atop 350 West Kinzie Street Add three more Chicago water tanks to the list of the doomed. All three were named in demolition permits within a two-day span last...
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720 North LaSalle Foundation Work Deepens
It wasn’t all that long ago you could get a shower and room at 720 North LaSalle Street. What was once a Howard Johnson Inn, consider by many to be a hole-in-the-wall establishment for weary...
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707 North Wells Begins Windows Download
707 North Wells There’s good reason for that twinkle in your eye as you drive down Wells Street in the River North neighborhood; the new residential building at 707 North Wells has been installing...
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Chicago’s Third Hotel Sammitch Hungry for the South Loop
527 South Wells Street (via Crain’s Chicago Business) Chicago’s frenzied hotel construction boom continues its push into the South Loop. To date, the majority of the completed new hostelries have been...
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A Tower Crane Sprouts in River North
A crane bud begins pushing up from the soil at 167 West Erie Street. It’s been a weird winter in Chicago. Our most recent weather event, as the Northeast dug out of double-digit snowfall, was a...
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Caution: Work Area. Maybe. [u]
Someone spent some time Monday digging up pavement at 205 West Hubbard Street. We’ve been fooled once before by the surface parking lot at 205 West Hubbard Street in River North. We’ll be darned if...
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There’s Action at 808 Wells in River North [u]
River North Spy Liz sent us this photo of the 808 Wells Sales Center construction from high atop River North. It’s only the makings of a sales office, but the structural work happening on the lot at...
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