J. Linn Allen

Little Josh Connor skips past an apartment building and the doorman gives him a salute and a big smile. He goes into a cookie store and a woman at the...

Being alone at the top of the heap has its good and bad sides--particularly when the one thing that distinguishes you from everybody else is your color. "We're left standing...

Around the Upper Cretaceous, which is west of Lower Michigan Avenue (I really do know that's wrong, please don't call) the dinosaurs died out, slunk away or couldn't get jobs...

The 75 E. Wacker Drive building, which has been caged like a wild beast since city inspectors found unstable terra cotta on its facade last fall, may eventually become a...

Hiffman Shaffer Associates Inc., which seems to have its hands all over the place, is extending its reach still further. The Chicago company, which claims to be the biggest local,...

Now and then you hear about a condominium board or homeowners association from hell, but mostly such remarks are mere pique. A Sunday episode of Fox's "The X-Files," however, featured...

An avalanche may be looming over the Loop office market just when it seemed to be heading into a sunny spring of steadily increasing demand and shrinking space available. Rumors...

Chicago's Near North Side certainly isn't a low-rent district, but soon it may not even be a high-rent district. It will be virtually a no-rent district. Condo king Nicholas Gouletas'...

Chicago may not be tops on any of the standard lists rating its real estate investment potential, but that may be misleading, according to Jacques Gordon, director of investment research...

John Buck says he'll know within three months whether Aon Corp. will follow up its letter of intent with a signed lease that will enable his company to go ahead...