J. Linn Allen

Downtown Chicago is in full bloom again. Its dynamism is manifest in the $1.5 billion-plus cluster of projects under way around North Michigan Avenue that will sprout new hotels, entertainment...

The Alter Group is looking to mine some gold from its venerable Chicago real estate portfolio and use the proceeds to further its national expansion and undertake some notable Chicago...

Chicago's Department of Planning and Development is considering giving some tax increment finance funds to developers converting old Loop office buildings to residential use if they agree to make them...

The long-delayed Gateway Plaza to transform the area around the Howard Street "L" station will finally manifest some clear signs of development over the next few weeks. The project has...

Chicago police on Friday were seeking the driver in a hit-and-run accident that killed a 2-year-old Indianapolis boy who had left a North Side restaurant after a holiday meal with...

The curved, exuberantly classical London Guarantee building at 360 N. Michigan Ave., purchased recently in a $121 million portfolio of five downtown buildings by J. Paul Beitler, chairman of Douglas...

Prime Group Realty Trust is reportedly negotiating for the purchase of 33 W. Monroe St., a 28-story, 843,000-square-foot building mostly occupied by Arthur Andersen & Co. The purchase, for an...

A year-end flurry of deals for major downtown office buildings is further evidence that real estate prospectors are confident of finding gold mines in the peaks of the Loop skyline....

A new player in Chicago suburban office development is Denver-based Miller Global Properties LLC, which has broken ground on a 178,000-square-foot, six-story project at the Park at Northwest Point in...

Big John isn't the only top-drawer North Michigan Avenue mixed-use building whose commercial space is changing hands. The office and retail space plus the parking garage at Olympia Centre at...