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Chef Victorio Padilla cooks seafood in the kitchen of Tuscany restaurant on Taylor Street on Sept. 29, 2020.

Arrivederci, Little Italy? Adio, Greektown? Two of Chicago’s global dining destinations struggle to save their souls.

October 20, 2020 at 9:05 a.m.

Red sauce and wine still flow on Little Italy's Taylor Street, and the saganaki still flames on Greektown's strip of Halsted. But there is less Italian and Greek heritage on...

Graduate Evanston is in the former Homestead apartment and hotel building in Evanston, near Northwestern University.

College-focused Graduate Hotels is opening near Northwestern’s campus. It comes at an unprecedented time for hotels and universities.

October 15, 2020 at 1:10 p.m.

Six years after launching a brand of college-focused hotels, a well-known Chicago developer is ready for a homecoming. Graduate Hotels on Friday will open its 28th hotel, and its first...

Scaled-down, 29-story apartment tower proposed for Barnes & Noble site on Near North Side

October 14, 2020 at 2:24 p.m.

More than a year after withdrawing plans to replace a former Barnes & Noble bookstore with a residential tower, a Chicago developer is unveiling a scaled-down design for the Near...

Lincoln Yards’ $35 million bridge, with bike and pedestrian lanes, moves closer to reality

October 12, 2020 at 1:43 p.m.

Lincoln Yards' developer plans to start building a bridge across the Chicago River by next summer that will help connect the site to the planned eastward extension of The 606...

The McDonald's global headquarters in the Chicago's West Loop on Dec. 19, 2019.

McDonald’s HQ to sell for about $420 million, a record for Chicago’s Fulton Market district

October 29, 2020 at 11:07 a.m.

Developer Sterling Bay has a deal to sell McDonald's headquarters building for about $420 million, in what would be the highest-priced property sale of the year and a record price...

New Nielsen company to have headquarters in Chicago, where research firm began in 1923

September 29, 2020 at 1:37 p.m.

Nielsen is splitting off a portion of its business and creating a new company that will be based in Chicago, the city where Arthur Nielsen founded the research giant nearly...

A forklift maneuvers Sept. 28, 2020, Inside the new Ford materials handling facility at Commerce Park Chicago, on the site of the former Republic Steel plant in the Hegewisch community area.

Ford opens facility in Chicago within sprawling Southeast Side industrial park under development

September 28, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

Ford Motor Co. has opened a materials handling facility on the city's Southeast Side, anchoring one of the largest industrial real estate developments in Chicago in decades. The 360,000-square-foot facility,...

The Old Post Office unveils a 3.5-acre rooftop deck, Sept. 21, 2020.

Massive 3.5-acre rooftop deck opens at Old Post Office. Here’s what it looks like.

September 21, 2020 at 4:22 p.m.

The Old Post Office has opened the nation's largest private rooftop deck, giving office workers in the riverfront behemoth 3.5 acres of outdoor space to spread out during the coronavirus...

Albert M. Friedman, chairman and CEO of Friedman Properties, stands in front of Nonnina restaurant, 340 N. Clark St., on Sept. 18, 2020. Friedman likened the current restaurant landscape to an episode of "The Twilight Zone," except to note that it's really happening.

Whether a restaurant survives the pandemic could depend on an uneasy dance with the landlord

September 18, 2020 at 6:28 p.m.

Restaurants, their receipts less than a third of what they customarily would take in, are unable to pay rent. Landlords, with mortgages and property-tax bills due, can't survive without income....

Southport Lanes has been a speak-easy, brothel, gambling den and bowling alley. One thing the Lakeview institution is not: A COVID-19 survivor.

September 18, 2020 at 10:48 a.m.

Southport Lanes has lasted nearly a century by evolving, at various times serving as a tavern, bowling alley, speak-easy, brothel and illegal off-track horse betting venue. But the Lakeview mainstay,...

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