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...

