J. Linn Allen

Almost every anchor retailer going into a downtown area gets a sweetener from the city government these days, says JMB Realty Corp. President Neil Bluhm. "What you have here is...

The gods of wind, who are howling around the phantom towers of developers' downtown plans, say John Buck Co. is radically scaling back plans for a 1.7- million-square-foot, 70-story office...

Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Investments Inc., which will be breaking ground this month on an eight-story, 350,000-square-foot office building in Lisle, is following a strategy of development rather than acquisition in...

I'm a renter Don't pretend to be a big-time spender I'm just an average guy And I hope you'll try to keep me satisfied. These lyrics are from "Renters Paradise,"...

The check could be in the mail from a buyer by the end of the year for Chicago's old Central Post Office building athwart the Eisenhower Expressway. The 2.6 million-square-foot...

The curse of the North Loop won't strike again, vows Chicago Planning Commissioner Christopher Hill. News that Garth Drabinsky, flamboyant founder of Toronto-based Livent Inc., was suspended from the company...

The sale of the 28-acre Montgomery Ward & Co. headquarters site to a bicoastal development team that likely aims to transform the mammoth, historic Ward's catalog building into a residential...

Plans for redeveloping Cabrini-Green always have left many to wonder how well its poorer residents can live alongside owners of the $350,000 town homes springing up in the neighborhood. This...

The race to build the world's tallest building may be sparking some of the world's toughest infighting as secrecy-shrouded meetings go on among developers, city officials, television broadcasters, financial backers...

In Chicago, more than three dozen police officers have bought homes in the city with specialized mortgages that include loans of up to $5,000 they may never have to repay....