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 [...]

5354 N. Paulina
Architect: Alphonso Peluso, Vertex Architects, LLC
By Jason La Fleur, LEED AP
On a cold February day, Alphonso Peluso of Vertex Architects, LLC laughed when asked about his motivations for pursuing LEED certification. “We were doing all of the right things anyway, so we figured why not get LEED-certified as well?”
During one of Alliance for [...]

By Rick Prohov
Oct. 26, Evanston City Council voted 8-1 in favor of an ordinance requiring large new commercial buildings to meet the LEED Silver standard of green building. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a comprehensive building rating and certification system maintained by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
The green building [...]

By Vivek Jayaram
Sustainability. Twitter. Eco-Industrial corridors. These words are not historically germane to political discourse. Then again, Manuel “Manny” Flores, the alderman of Chicago’s First Ward, isn’t exactly a conventional politician. As a member of the Democratic Party, Flores has successfully held public office since 2003 by focusing his [...]

The Haworth Merchandise Mart showroom was chosen as one of 104 projects to participate in the U.S. Green Building Council’s nationwide LEED-CI pilot program. In 2005, the Haworth showroom became the first LEED-CI Gold certified showroom in the Merchandise Mart. This project set the bar for at least eight other showrooms seeking LEED-CI or LEED-EB certification within the Merchandise Mart.