J. Linn Allen

The marketing of Amoco Corp.'s 80-story white granite (formerly marble) tower in downtown Chicago suggests that the city's tallest buildings may get picked off one by one. No. 1 Sears...

More and more, the East Loop is standing out as Chicago's Left Bank. Academic and arts institutions are increasingly colonizing old buildings along South Michigan and South Wabash Avenues and...

The way it seems, the world of Hollywood fantasy is replacing reality block by block as new rumors of multiplex cinemas follow each other like sideswipes in a grand finale...

`It's a giant cocktail party, with everyone talking to each other," according to one top Chicago commercial real estate executive. What they're talking about is buying and selling each other's...

The development arena is beginning to seem more like the hog futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with everyone trying to outshout each other with the latest mammoth project....

The feast continues: Three of the area's biggest commercial real estate companies reportedly are vying to gobble up Miglin-Beitler Inc., the local management firm headed by J. Paul Beitler. The...

Bob Wislow, chairman of U.S. Equities Realty Inc., thinks government should get credit when it does something right. And he believes Cook County officials, who have come in for some...

Eat or be eaten is the law of the real estate jungle, and these days, Harvey Camins is enjoying his nosh. Camins is Midwest region president of Insignia/FC&S, which said...

Football is a game of inches, as the commentators say when all other cliches fail. So, clearly, is big-time development. A few inches in the hotel rooms of the new...

An Oak Brook-based developer is planning to start construction on a 52-story office tower on Wacker Drive next summer, the first major speculative office building project in downtown Chicago since...