J. Linn Allen

While the dizzying growth of Internet sales has created doubts about the future of store-based retailing, Chicago's Urban Shopping Centers Inc. continues to bet that mall space will hold its...

A global game of King of the Castle is taking shape with the Chicago City Council's unanimous approval Wednesday of a zoning change for a new world's tallest building in...

There's a world market for real estate, to be sure, but trading in that market doesn't flow quite as smoothly as for stocks, currencies and financial instruments. Property has a...

The Chicago suburbs are known throughout the country as one of the hardest areas in which to get municipal approval for multifamily housing. The reasons aren't particularly pleasant. A lot...

`Any day you don't sell something, you've bought it." That about sums up the business philosophy of Chicago financier Sam Zell, who is known for evaluating his holdings on a...

The condo and townhouse boom in and around central Chicago, where the pace of "attached housing" construction has tripled over the last five years, has created a secondary boom in...

The gods of wind are puffing up the story that Bank One Corp. is on the verge of committing to a big hunk of space in the Dearborn Center project...

Downtown parking is hot. So hot--and so profitable--that it's become a major factor in the plans for a new office building at 181 N. Clark St. Downtown office buildings rarely...

Michigan Avenue Partners has a message for Alcoa Inc. and Reynolds Metals Co.: Don't celebrate your merger plans, because we aren't going away. Reynolds late Wednesday accepted a $4.4 billion...