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Borrow, don’t buy. The Chicago Tool Library in West Garfield Park has *everything*. Open house today until 4 PM. 4015 W Carroll Ave.
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Fascinating…the building owner replaced the part of the living rooms’ bay windows area with semi-enclosed porches
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I finally* got to see an elevator popped out of a sidewalk [*I didn’t know this existed in Chicago.]
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the St Regis tower has only two cores, as described and demonstrated in this video by a structural engineer in training on TikTok
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The Menomonee Club got a permit to build a two-lane bowling alley.
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BREAKING: Chicago's ADU ordinance is being introduced at Wednesday's City Council meeting. Law would legalize coach houses and small dwelling units.
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Vacant lots in Washington Park and Bronzeville now have tulips planted in the forms of former building footprints.
Background:
#RedefiningRedlining
#AmandaWilliams
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this is really neat...
The owner of 30 N LaSalle St wants to convert it 432 apartments (130 of them affordable).
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low density along Broadway is a travesty
Chicago's Red Line looking a little orange thanks to construction netting as part of the
@CTA
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Future site of 500 new homes. Just waiting for City Council to approve it.
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400 N DuSable Lake Shore Dr got its first building permit - Learn more about the scope of work:
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I kinda wish the ceilings were painted white so these didn’t look like black holes
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Goodbye corner gas station, hello 27-unit building. See where ->
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Inherent Homes CEO Tim Swanson has set up the microhome in the West Loop and is living here for the weekend. Stop by before Sunday at 12 PM.
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re-legalize 3 floors and corner stores
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164 new homes permitted to come to this South Loop site.
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heat pumps!
I bet hundreds of homes in Chicago will be “electrofitted” with heat pumps this year. (This photo shows three winter-ready heat pumps on a new construction three-flat in Pilsen.)
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What I saw today: a Roadrunner and Wile E Coyote mural on the side of a hotel brokerage office building
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Help, someone please build housing here. People want to live downtown.
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I think it’s a fair trade: slightly less interior space for new private exterior space in a building that has no yard or rooftop dedk
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The second Inherent Homes modular house was installed today in Humboldt Park. Here’s a short video from the founder, Tim.
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Huh. I feel like I don’t know what “city-like living” means anymore.
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I think this is a scoop: Federales got a permit to build a new restaurant at the site of the former Father & Son restaurant parking lot, across from Estereo.
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Oh hai the new Damen Green Line station was finally permitted!
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No idea why but this South Loop building is getting demolished (a permit was issued yesterday and there is no application for a replacement building).
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A new ice cream shop was permitted in Little Village, a neighborhood where mixed-use zoning still exists and allows businesses on side streets.
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For people asking about exterior drainage…it appears the balcony has a wood deck with a gap next to the wall, so maybe there’s a new drain under it (keep asking questions but I am not an architect, I don’t own this building, and I saw this biking past yesterday)
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New rendering created by Goettsch Partners: Updated renderings for the proposed multi-building development at 700 W Chicago Ave (former Chicago ... Learn more:
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New rendering created by Goettsch Partners: Updated renderings for the proposed multi-building development at 700 W Chicago Ave (former Chicago ... Learn more:
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I was mistaken: it’s a combined room with kitchen. I don’t know what the layout was before the modifications.
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If you believe more housing should be allowed to be built next to a Mariano's grocery store and a 24-hour 'L' station, then we have a job for you: Emailing your alderperson if they're a Zoning Committee member. Details here:
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The pattern of basement flooding location reports is very different between yesterday's storm (left) and the storm on 9/11/2022 (right).
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New rendering created by JGMA: A proposed 153-unit residential high-rise on a vacant lot in South Shore. – See it here:
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In one week, 110 property owners have told City Hall they intend to build an ADU!
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A permit has been issued for interior renovation work at the former Ramova Theater in Bridgeport.
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425 S Financial Place, on the north side of Ida B Wells Drive from LaSalle Station, has a nice but underused plaza. The water fountain effectively covers up the noise from all the cars. There’s also a restaurant here, Taureaux, which closes kind of early.
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These little flyers are how the federal government is letting you know that it wants to demolish these buildings downtown
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@dfdunham
@akronisticlotor
1342 W Taylor St.
73 units including 37 public housing units, 29 affordable units, and 7 market rate units.
Atop a public library branch.
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The CTA got a permit to move the Vautravers building, in order to accommodate work to straighten tracks north of the Belmont station.
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The book says the city will propose an ordinance to eliminate parking mandates citywide. 👍👍👍👍
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How many three flats of this design do we think were built between 2000 and 2008?
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@mnolangray
Chicago. Although we have a tough municipal election coming up. Early voting starts today!
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I got a copy of Mayor Harold Washington’s task force on Neighborhood land use report about vacant land (May 1987)
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Umm...a permit was issued to replace this 3-flat with a new 3-flat.
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The Chicago Brick Alleys map we started due to
@CDRosa
's call for help in finding these across the 35th Ward now has 11 locations citywide.
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Instead of counting sheep I count dwelling units
Head over to the Bloomingdale Trail where it crosses Western Avenue and look south.
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Workers just unveiled the new name: Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments.
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Ah, what a wonderful gift the federal government’s landlord has given Chicago
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Pullman is getting a café! One of the former Pullman executive's houses will be converted to a house museum, and the outdoor deck for the future café was just permitted.
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New rendering created by Goettsch Partners: Updated renderings for the proposed multi-building development at 700 W Chicago Ave (former Chicago ... Learn more:
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The White Sox stadium got a permit to build a new outdoor bar with premium seating skybox. Read the permit description to learn about what has to be removed for this to happen.
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Six years ago today the Stony Island Arts Bank had a grand opening celebration.
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Parking lot ➡️ 6 homes + ground floor retail
2487 N Milwaukee Ave.
Six 3bd/2ba units replaced a parking lot that was at least 60 years old. I think there are only three parking spaces on the property.
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The former Lawson House YMCA is undergoing a major renovation and partial deconversion so that every unit has its own bathroom.
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What is Chicago's highest basketball court? Here's one on the 17th floor of 167 N Green. (It's very blue because the glass is very tinted.)
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The roller skating rink the city built in West Garfield Park is becoming permanent with this permit.
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2-4 flats seem to be well-distributed across Chicago. Based on
@AssessorCook
data, this map shows all 114,913 of them.
In the gaps? Downtown, industrial areas, large parks, and "bungalow belts".
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A new 3126-unit residential building in the West Loop got its first permit. Read on ->
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Whoa
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@abescarr
What is your opinion on the law in Chicago that takes effect on Jan 1, 2023, and requires all new housing to at least have electrical infrastructure to support swapping gas appliances for electric ones?
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This project to convert a parking garage to 72 apartments was permitted. This is a rare type of adaptive reuse.
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3-flats should be allowed as of right everywhere. -SV
Rezoning proposed for three-flat at 2515 N. Clybourn
Sean Gibbons | Jonathan Splitt Architects
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Apartments & condos are banned in most of Chicago [published in May 2019]
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The Southport corridor will soon have a large vacant store when Amazon Books closes.
This is a major TOD redevelopment opportunity.
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@mollyfleck
South Loop. The city used to maintain a neighborhood map, and I was able to retain a copy before they took it offline.
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"Windy City Rehab" season 4 started airing last month, and 2150 W Monroe St is featured.
a permit was issued in November:
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The "Permit of the Week" award goes to this two-flat, which got a permit to become FOUR flat.
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It’s being replaced by 304 apartments.
And, like, a walkable street?
The Sears of Fox Valley 1.0 is being sacrificed in the name of progress
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Yesterday I went to a sort of coach house open house (it’s still under construction). It was fun to be inside one of the first new construction coach houses since 1957. The 2nd pic shows the front door (living room is right, kitchen is left), and the 4th pic shows the bedroom.
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Show up to support more housing in opportunity areas like Lincoln Park. The CHA is proposing to build 80 apartments on land it already owns in a high-cost neighborhood of Chicago. Meeting on 8/19/19, 6:30 PM, 2701 N. Sheffield Ave.
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Chicago’s zoning map doesn’t allow this to be built new in most neighborhoods
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this building might be happening soon – a tower crane permit is pending here
New rendering created by BKV Group: A revised rendering (different from one in August 2019) of two residential buildings proposed for a long-vacant lot in Lakeview with 333 units. – See it here:
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3 years + 3 weeks ago we learned that property in Chicago’s neighborhoods of color were being over assessed, and those POC homeowners and renters were paying too much in taxes.
#TheTaxDivide
Now we know that the problem is national.
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If Chicago allowed “court” developments like this (single detached houses facing a small lawn), would people buy it?
The winner of the 2021 Urban Guild Awards is The Bend, a tiny little square of six new homes in Carlton Landing, Oklahoma.
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In what I think is an historic move, the City Council will re-legalize ADUs today. Here's our new FAQ about what you can build, and where.
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the owner of 135 S LaSalle St (the Field Building) wants to convert it to 430 apartments (129 affordable) and potentially establish a grocery store.
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The city-owned parking lot next to Logan Square, a accessible 24-hour subway station (where two bus routes also stop), will be given to a non-profit developer so they can build a 100-unit 100% affordable apartment building.
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The permit for an as-of-right residential building with 344 apartments was issued, and it's replacing a parking lot.
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the owner of 208 S. LaSalle St. wants to convert the office portion to 280 dwelling units (84 affordable).
The JW Marriott and The LaSalle Chicago (Autograph Collection) hotels will remain.
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That golf driving range that was approved on the site of the former Vienna Beef factory on Elston/Damen/Chicago River with an unreasonable amount of car parking spaces is dead.
The property owners are filing on Wednesday to eliminate the Planned Development designation.
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The former Lorali Hotel in Uptown, an SRO vacant for three years, will be converted to 80 apartments after this new permit was issued.
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Good news...the 36-unit apartment building replacing the (privately owned) Julia Porter Park was originally permitted with 36 car parking spaces. However, with this revision permit, space for 12 cars will now be space for retail and outdoor terrace.
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The first ADU permit of 2023 was issued, for a new coach house with a loft and rooftop terrace.
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We finally mapped all the TOD bus route corridors in the proposed
#ConnectedCommunities
ordinance.
Adopting this map would expand the number of properties in a TOD area (in any zoning district) by 2.9x.
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I just biked through a little of Bronzeville to gather more images to illustrate last week’s newsletter about it being a new construction hotspot…look at all of this! This is just one street (Calumet) between 33rd and 48th.
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Maybe this is a good idea...”Protect all buildings over 50 years old, full stop. Require that developers prove the structure is a public safety threat to demolish it. If demolition is the only path forward, charge a hefty teardown fee.”
I want to save a historic Chicago home. I’m up against developers who would rather raze it via
@SunTimes
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The Chicago Cultural Center got a permit to restore a stain glass dome in and make MEP upgrades to the Grand Army of the Republic room. Photo by
@EricAllixRogers
.
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Check out one of the proposals at the Kedzie Green Line station: The "Hub 32" proposal would start by developing Site 2 with a seven-story, 78,000-square-foot mixed-use building with 63 units. Learn more + see more proposals nearby ➡️
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