J. Linn Allen

One of the city's high-rent apartment properties, 401 E. Ontario St. in Streeterville, has been acquired by a new ownership group and is likely to go condo. If that move...

The colonization of the Loop by residential buildings will get a big boost when the Block 37 project finally gets going. Sources at JMB Realty Group, which controls the property...

The jungle hogs are prowling, but it's no nightmare. "I just hope nobody punches us and wakes us up," said George Cibula, president of Bensenville-based Darwin Realty & Development Corp.,...

A sign that office building prices in the Loop may be getting a bit toppy is the withdrawal--at least for the moment--of TrizecHahn Office Properties from the bidding for One...

Just about everybody agrees that crossing North Columbus Drive in the corridor between North Michigan Avenue and Navy Pier is perilous for pedestrians. Cars barrel along the wide thoroughfare as...

Randall Rowe, co-founder and chairman of Transwestern Investment Co. LLC, a real estate investment firm based in Chicago, has been elected chairman of the National Realty Committee, a Washington-based lobbying...

Burton Friedman, executive vice president of the Chicago real estate firm Capital Associates, said a group of about 200 tenants at the Apparel Center has retained him to look for...

Waste Management Inc. has begun sending 60-day notices to employees at its Oak Brook headquarters whose jobs will be eliminated when the nation's largest waste hauler is merged into Houston-based...

Developer Scott Toberman, reportedly planning the world's tallest office building at the corner of Dearborn and Madison Streets in the Loop, may be seeking some kind of city subsidy or...

Will the stately, riverside Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, the last major convention hotel built downtown, change its name to Westin? The 1,200-room behemoth, completed in 1992, became part of...