J. Linn Allen

A long-awaited agreement bringing a Nordstrom specialty store to Chicago, with a North Michigan Avenue entrance, was announced Monday as the centerpiece of a $450 million complex of hotels, retail...

It required Chicagoans of fearless spirit to become pioneer tenants at Sandburg Village. So it was fitting that Anthony Yasillo, a lion keeper at Lincoln Park Zoo, was among the...

`The market's moving so fast, it's probably the beginning of the end." That sounds like a stock analyst talking about investors' irrational exuberance, but it was actually loft developer Michael...

Developers on the fringes of Chicago's Loop are choosing sites for new homes that would have been scorned only a year or two ago as demand for housing from lovers...

Industrial real estate is cuddly in the Chicago market. Is it too cuddly? Deals for big chunks of space are abounding in the region, such as the lease for 270,000...

Seems only yesterday Chicago was the land of no returns for real estate investors, reeling from low occupancy and lower rents in office buildings after the gross overbuilding of the...

If you hear the staff of LaSalle Partners refer to themselves as LaSalle "Partenaires" with a pronounced French accent, they're not just putting on the chien (dog). A Paris subsidiary...

The exuberance that has been a feature of the stock market in the past year is showing up among ordinary folk who may not plot mutual fund strategies over breakfast....

Developer Dan McLean is "buying everything in sight," observes Tem Horwitz, another Chicago developer who is conspicuously not buying everything in sight. Horwitz, head of Horwitz & Co., which is...

Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo said last week that senior citizens are in danger of being defrauded by scam artists demanding big fees to provide help with obtaining reverse mortgages that...