New Progress and Pictures of South Loop’s Next Mega-Development
There was a lot of hoopla yesterday about The 78, Related Midwest’s 62-acre mixed-use development going up on a brownfield site across the street from the South Loop Target store. There was lots of press. Lots of big names. But once you scrub out all of the clichés, the platitudes, and the marketing babble seemingly cribbed from a Silicon Valley startup’s About page, here’s what actually happened: A document was...
Chicago Places Join Giraffes on Endangered List
Just days after the Fish and Wildlife Service started talking about adding giraffes to its endangered species list, Landmarks Illinois put out its annual list of the Prairie State’s most endangered places. There are a dozen entries on the list, with three in Chicago, three in the surrounding area, and the remainder scattered across the state. Here’s the endangered dozen: Chicago The Thompson Center James R. Thompson...
Work Begins on Combo Live/Learn Building at UIC
Construction is underway on a new building at the University of Illinois at Chicago that combines both learning space, and living space. the $100 million building designed by SCB features a circular two-story classroom wing, and a 10-story residential tower. According to the renderings, the building features an auditorium that embraces the building’s form with a lecture hall that curves around the proctor. But instead of rows...
The 78 Chicago — The Huge Plan for Downtown That Actually Could Happen
Over the last couple of years, Chicago’s traditional and new media have been ablaze with huge headlines about massive bigger real estate development projects all over town. While most are eager to print even the most fanciful claims and screwball ideas just to generate clicks, we take a more measured approach around here. Which is why it’s refreshing to bring you news of The 78 — an enormous institutional research nexus...
“The 78” to Transform Chicago’s South Loop
If you’ve been wondering why things have been so quiet between Roosevelt Road and Chinatown, it turns out things have been going on behind the scenes. Big things. Tomorrow morning, Governor Bruce Rauner will announce a public-private partnership that will turn the 62-acre site owned by Related Midwest into a massive collegiate research park. The academics involved in “The 78” innovation center are the University of...
