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The rundown lobby of the Uptown Theatre is seen in Chicago on Dec. 12, 2018.

‘They’ve been heroes’: The Uptown Theatre’s guardians fended off fires, rainwater, rodents, vandals, thieves and squatters

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

A 37-year intermission has not been kind to the Uptown Theatre. Fires, cascading rainwater, sheets of ice, broken pipes, frozen boilers, rodents, crumbling plaster, financial distress, vandals, thieves and squatters...

The two-level H&M store at 22 N. State Street in Chicago will be taken over by Uniqlo.

Uniqlo to take over H&M’s multilevel store on State Street

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo is in and Sweden’s H&M is out in a shakeup of international fast fashion brands on State Street. Uniqlo has a deal to take over a...

Real estate firms Sterling Bay and Hearn Co. have called off their $300 million deal for the office and parking portions of the former John Hancock Center.

$300 million-plus sale of former John Hancock Center offices called off

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

Sterling Bay’s deal for the former John Hancock Center has fallen apart, putting a big chunk of the 100-story skyscraper — and its naming rights — back in the hands...

The exterior of the new Allbirds store in the 800 block of West Armitage Ave. in Chicago, Dec. 21, 2018. The San Francisco-based shoe company plans to open this spring.

Allbirds to become latest ‘clicks-to-bricks’ retailer headed to Armitage Avenue

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

Allbirds, which calls its product “the world’s most comfortable shoes,” is the latest online retailer setting up shop on Chicago’s Armitage Avenue. The company confirmed it has leased approximately 2,000...

Details of the stage area are seen Oct. 10, 2017, at the Congress Theater in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. An investment group has plans to start a $65 million renovation in the next three to four months, with a goal of reopening the 1920s-era building in 2019.

Aon Center observatory, redevelopments at Uptown and Congress theaters win Plan Commission approval

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

A downtown skyscraper and two North Side theaters on Thursday moved closer to securing zoning approval to kick off Chicago redevelopments envisioned as crowd-pleasers. The Chicago Plan Commission approved a...

Aon Center owner wants to start building observatory — with thrill ride, restaurant, glass elevators — by spring

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

A planned observatory atop the Aon Center could welcome its first thrill seekers in less than two years as the Chicago skyscraper’s owner nears zoning approval for the $185 million...

The Austin, Texas, skyline is seen in 2016. The Texas capital will be the home of a new $1 billion Apple campus, the company announced Dec. 13, 2018.

Apple becomes second tech giant to skip Chicago, picks Austin for $1 billion campus

December 13, 2018 at 2:41 p.m.

Chicago was bypassed by another tech behemoth Thursday when Apple announced plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, with smaller sites or expansions in six other cities....

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, seen Thursday after the Ferrara Candy announcement, said the company's move downtown was set in motion about a year ago when a Ferrara employee sat behind him on a flight. She told him many employees would like to work downtown.

Ferrara Candy confirms its headquarters will move to Chicago’s Old Post Office

December 13, 2018 at 3:28 p.m.

Ferrara Candy Co. will relocate its corporate headquarters to Chicago's Old Post Office from Oakbrook Terrace next summer, bringing almost 400 jobs to the massive structure straddling Congress Parkway. Ferrara...

National Louis University has paid more than $15 million for the Gage Building, where it will move its culinary and hospitality students.

National Louis buys Michigan Avenue property for culinary and hospitality program

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

National Louis University has paid more than $15 million for a Michigan Avenue building where it will move its culinary and hospitality students, after buying Kendall College earlier this year....

BMO confirms it will anchor 50-story office tower at Union Station

May 10, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

BMO Financial Group has confirmed plans to anchor a new 50-story office tower adjacent to Union Station, in a deal that will consolidate 3,600 downtown employees into a single building....

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