J. Linn Allen

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a new guideline on the lead-based paint disclosure regulations exempting all single-family home sale contracts signed before the Dec. 6,...

A national fair housing group is promising to monitor Northbrook-based Allstate Corp. closely to see if it lives up to reported changes in selling homeowner's insurance policies that would affect...

Robert Dutkin, a sales training consultant for G.D. Searle & Co., was transferred from Maryland to the pharmaceutical company's Skokie headquarters last year and moved with his wife to a...

`I don't lose money on everything," said Daniel Levin. "Sometimes I have a good day." Levin, 65, has been involved in developing apartment buildings since the mid-1950s and in 1971...

Prospects for a deal involving the undeveloped Cityfront Center land adjacent to the Chicago River east of Michigan Avenue increased Friday as a Chicago investor filed a notice of his...

Skokie-based U.S. Robotics Corp., possibly the fastest-growing company in the state, is considering moving a key part of its operation--maybe even its headquarters--to downtown Chicago. A significant move downtown by...

The Chicago Plan Commission Thursday gave the go-ahead for plans to remake the moribund Marina City commercial property into an entertainment and dining center focused on the blues. The panel...

The increasing popularity of renting among higher-income types who disdain ownership has spurred one big Chicago apartment building firm to offer an option that will make rental units more like...

After dealing with bickering aldermen, anxious developers and bureaucratic infighters for the last three years, Valerie Jarrett is leaving the post as the city's chief of planning and economic development...

The players in the land game being conducted within shouting distance of Cabrini-Green include many names well known in both the city's real estate community and at City Hall. Chief...