Location: 330 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL 60611
Contractor: Bear Construction
Owner: Prime Group Realty Trust
By William Olson
At the Chicago River’s southerly hiccough, a modern icon has gone green.
The building at 330 N. Wabash, Mies Van der Rohe’s architectural encore in America, recently underwent a sustainable renovation and earned the USGBC’s Silver Certification for Existing Buildings (EB) Operations [...]

Project Location: 3000 River Road, Des Plaines, IL
Owner: Midwest Gaming and Entertainment, LLC
Development Manager: Development Management Associates, LLC
Architect: Klai Juba
General Contractor: Pepper Construction
By Wendy Berger Shapiro
In December 2008, Midwest Gaming and Entertainment, LLC was awarded the exclusive right to apply for the 10th Illinois casino license. The company, led by Chairman Neil Bluhm, began plans [...]

Developer: McCaffery Interests
Architect: Antunovich Associates
MEP Engineer: Lehman Design
Structural Engineer: Matsen Ford
Civil Engineer: Space Co.
General Contractor: W.E. O’Neil Construction Company
Commissioning Agent and LEED Consultant: AECOM
Landscape Architect: Wolff Landscape Architecture
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By David Eldridge and Azmina Alimohd
The Morgan at Loyola Station is a newly constructed residential building located at Arthur Street and Sheridan Road near the Loyola University campus. McCaffery Interests has a [...]

By Kareeshma Ali
Owner/Developer: Hospice of Northeastern Illinois
Architect: Harley Ellis Devereaux/Hospice Design Resources
Contractor: Pepper Construction
The “green revolution” has often been associated with its attempts to address the adverse impacts of development footprints. However, too often the issues of public health and safety take a backseat during the design process and are overshadowed by the high-tech gadgetry. [...]

By Susan D. Turner, AIA, PMP, LEED AP
Developer: Matt Phillips, Integrated Design Development Group LLC (IDG)
Architect: Larry Booth, Booth Hanson (Chicago)
HVAC Consultants: Deirdre McDaniel, WMA Engineering (Chicago)
Interior Design Bonnie Mason, Interior Design Associates (Nashville)
Estimated Cost: $ 150,000,000
Designed in 1924 by Jarvis Hunt, the former Lake Shore Athletic Club is a twenty story, 370,000 square-foot Beaux Arts building, built of masonry [...]

By Jessica Tobacman
Roosevelt University has begun plans for a new student center, incorporating a new eco-friendly edge into their design. The lobby of the university’s Auditorium Building currently houses a model that includes this structure and an artistic rendering of the institution’s new project. Located at 421 to 425 S. Wabash Ave., the Wabash Development [...]