Curve on the Kennedy Now Visibly Curvy
What we at the Chicago Architecture Blog have taken to calling The Curve on the Kennedy (171 North Halsted Street) might conjure up nightmares for Chicago drivers. What exactly do we mean? The angled segment through Hubbard’s Cave? The constant jam as you veer west at the Edens junction? The turn at Nagle before you hit the home stretch on the way to O’Hare? Wow. Now that we list them out, we see your point. And apologize...
Here We Grow Again! Big Curving Tower Coming to Halsted Corridor
How hot is the downtown Chicago residential market? So hot it could have a physicist explain it on the television show Nova. The P.B.S. version, not the weak Fox reboot. To wit, the new residential tower proposed for the corner of West Lake Street and North Halsted Street in West Town. Crain’s Chicago Business has the scoopage on the building currently known as 171 North Halsted, and says it’s a joint project...
