Some residents of the Near West Side feel that the community never fully recovered from construction of the expressways and the University of Illinois at Chicago campus - both of which cut large swaths through what in many ways, was the quintessential Chicago neighborhood. (more…)

The Radco Companies has opened three new condo models at Prairie House at Central Station, a new 187-unit mid-rise in the South Loop. (more…)

Optima, Inc. took more than 40 reservations during March at Elm Tower, the second phase of its Optima Old Orchard Woods development, located three blocks west of Old Orchard Shopping Center, overlooking the Harms Woods Forest Preserve. (more…)

In what promises to be one of the city's most prominent active condo conversions, Centrum Properties and MCZ Development have started sales at the Park Millennium, a 52-story tower at 222 N. Columbus that's continuing the residential boom underway on the New East Side. (more…)

The Falor Companies has reached the 50 percent sold mark at the Aldens, its second condominium hotel in Chicago, in what seems to be a ringing endorsement for a product type comparatively new to Chicago. (more…)

ViCor Development, a builder with a strong track record in Uptown, has broken ground on the Sheridan Grande, a new 70-unit condo mid-rise in the neighborhood, at 4848 N. Sheridan. (more…)

NVG Residential, Inc. the company Nicholas V. Gouletas left American Invsco to start, has declared its first major project a resounding success, and if Dec. 13 is any indication, the claim is no exaggeration. That was when NVG closed 90 units in a single day at its new 2000 N. Lincoln Park West condo conversion. Since then, the project has reached 60 percent sold, according to Gouletas. (more…)

It took a while, but condo hotels seem to be catching on in Chicago. Teng & Associates, the development and architecture firm behind the new Waterview Tower, planned for 111 W. Wacker, is the latest to join the fray. (more…)

Village Green Companies has opened a leasing center at the new MDA City Apartments, a conversion of the historic Medical Dental Arts Building, at 63 E. Lake. (more…)

It's a sign of the times in Bronzeville that Rubloff Residential Properties has set its sights on the up-and-coming neighborhood just south of the South Loop. Rubloff, which is known for its listings in Lincoln Park, the Gold Coast and other tony downtown communities, is selling two new luxury condo conversions that are part of a renaissance in Bronzeville. (more…)