Year-in-Review Archive

WIN: Rapid Roller Printing Building to Become Affordable Residential Lofts

Solar-powered apartments proposed on Near South Side; If a zoning change is approved, the vacant South Federal Street factory building would be redeveloped as...

WIN: Humboldt Park Methodist Church to be Adaptively Reused as Affordable Housing With Federal Funds

Plan To Convert Logan Square Church Into Affordable Housing Gets $2 Million Boost LUCHA was awarded funds from Congress that will be used to convert...

WIN: Historic Studebaker Theater Reopens After Two-Year Renovation

Tucked inside Fine Arts Building on South Michigan Avenue, a 125-year-old theater is reborn Workers are putting finishing touches on a multimillion-dollar renovation of the...

WIN: Renovated Apartment Buildings Honor Mattie Butler

Woodlawn apartments to be named for housing activist who saved them; Mattie Butler, who rescued a pair of buildings from decay and possible demolition...

WIN: Long-Vacant West Loop Landmark Mid-City Trust & Savings Bank To Become Boutique Hotel

Apartment-style hotel planned for West Loop landmark; The historic—and long-vacant—Mid-City Trust & Savings Bank building is poised to be transformed into 80 units, Danny...

WIN: New Owner Values Historic Pizzeria Uno and Due Buildings

Pizzeria Uno and Due buildings sold; The man who expanded Chicago's deep-dish mainstay into a national chain has sold the River North buildings that...

POTENTIAL WIN: Funding Awarded for Adaptive Reuse of Von Humboldt School Into Affordable Teacher Housing(Chicago 7 2014)

Plan To Turn Closed Von Humboldt School Into ‘Teachers Village’ With Affordable Apartments Gets $18 Million In City Funding; The Humboldt Park school, which...

WIN: Adaptive Reuse Progressing of Vintage Fulton Market Industrial Building Into Guinness Chicago Taproom

New Guinness Taproom Barrels Toward Completion In Fulton Market District, Jack Crawford, Chicago YIMBY, 8/25/22

Chicago Vocational High School, 1940, John C. Christensen, 2100 E. 87th St. Photo Credit: Eric Allix Rogers

Is Chicago Vocational HS headed for the National Register of Historic Places? This is good news that we hope leads to a full-on effort...

WIN: Sweetgreen Restaurant to Open in Lincoln Common Boiler House (Chicago 7 2011 & 2016)

Sweetgreen Opening Restaurant In Lincoln Common Tuesday; The Lincoln Park location will be Sweetgreen's 12th standalone restaurant in the city. The company will donate...