J. Linn Allen

The downtown residential boom is seen as a spur to business growth, with high-tech firms especially wanting to open up offices close to where their young employees live. But ironically,...

The piece de resistance of Dearborn Center, the 1.5 million-square-foot office project at State and Adams Streets propelled into reality this week by a kick from Bank One Corp.'s huge...

A clash of titans may be the next performance at Medinah Temple. Voices on the wind suggest that Albert Friedman, popularly known as the "king of River North" for the...

The rise of e-commerce is speeding the division of real estate operations into consolidated behemoths and fast-moving little shops that can make quick decisions on new technology. And those fast-moving...

The shortage of young high-tech workers is so dire that some companies will do anything to recruit and retain them, including making their offices more like college hangouts. Arvid Povilaitis,...

They stayed awake waiting so we could stay awake partying. Across the globe, engineers, managers, technical personnel and uncounted others spent the holiday weekend drinking coffee and staring blearily into...

Chicago's planning department is thinking about the possibility that the first increase in the city's population in decades could be reported in the coming decennial census, which will probably be...

The city's aggressive approach to saving fine old downtown buildings can be expected to continue next year, according to Planning Commissioner Christopher Hill. The city has already begun a process...

Selling out a condo project in a few days after word about the new building gets out is a bonanza for the developer, right? Not necessarily. In fact, to Dan...

Chicago real estate developer Bruce Abrams died Sunday after falling from the 18th-floor balcony of a downtown condominium building, authorities said. Abrams was seen by witnesses climbing over the rail...