Two powerful business groups have filed lawsuits claiming that legislation designed to give homeowners property tax relief is shifting the tax burden unfairly to...

The owner of the legendary Checkerboard Lounge, where everyone from Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger has taken the stage, plans to reopen the South...

The former Toys ‘R’ Us store that has been a glaring gap on State Street for the last two years is slated for a...

Follow Lake Shore Drive as far south as you can, and then keep going. At 57th Street and the Museum of Science and Industry,...

Despite street improvements and new banners proclaiming a “blues district,” 47th Street has remained largely undeveloped east of King Drive. The city hopes that...

Bargains abound as developers court buyers in competitive market What will it take to put you in a new home today? Whatever your answer,...

Marla Mason remembers an Albany Park far different from the one home and condo buyers are flocking to today. Mason, a pioneer developer in...

The Illinois Association of Realtors has named James Kinney, president of Rubloff Residential Properties, Illinois Realtor of the year.

Construction moved a step closer in mid-July for Park Boulevard, the 37-acre development of more than 1,300 homes that’s slated to replace the Chicago...

TCF Bank plans to write mortgages for undocumented immigrants in the Chicago area, opening up a potentially massive pool of consumers major banks long...

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has backed a controversial Chicago Housing Authority plan to keep unemployed public housing residents out of the mixed-income developments that...

Dealing with a recalcitrant homeowner is never easy for a condo board, but it proved fatal this week for a Franklin Park woman. Condo...

Wal-Mart reportedly is considering pulling its proposal for a new South Side store over concerns about the tax-increment financing being sought by the project’s...

A variety of union leaders have rallied behind a proposal that would require developers to set aside 15 percent of the housing units they...

Local developer Dubin Residential has grown significantly in recent years, with condo and townhouse projects stretching from the West Loop to Evanston. A new...

A committee has been formed in an attempt to break the deadlock over reconstruction of Hyde Park’s historic Promontory Point. Local activists have been...

Louis Outlaw grew up on stories of Bronzeville, a legendary South Side community that over the years attained a sort of mythic status in...

At Properties, one of the city’s fastest growing residential brokerages, has opened a new Lincoln Park office, the company’s fourth in Chicago.

Function + Art, a nationally recognized gallery specializing in fine craft, studio furniture and glass art, is opening a new exhibition called “Diversity: Studio...

A Chicago City Council committee approved a zoning change this week that would allow for the controversial development of a Wal-Mart store on the...