Location: 1260 W. Adams St. Chicago, IL 60607
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Owner/Developer – Public Building Commission of Chicago (PBC)
Architect – Schroeder Murchie Niemiec Gazda-Auskalnis (SMNG-A)
By: Angela Timmons
As school begins each year, students across Chicago show up for classes with new back packs, the latest in back-to-school fashions and pristine notebooks waiting to be filled. On the [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Location
2916 W. 47th St., Chicago, IL 60632  Map
Owner
United Neighborhood Organization
Architect
Austin AECOM
Officer Donald Marquez Charter School is one of two green school renovations underway by the United Neighborhood Organiozation (UNO). This first project is housed in a former Misericordia home for disabled children in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. The two & four story, 58,150 sf building [...]

Location
365 Raider Way, Bolingbrook, IL 60440  Map
Owner
Valley View Public School District 365U
Architect
Wight & Company
When it opened in 2004, the new Bolingbrook High School became the first LEED® certified high school in Illinois, and only the third in the entire country.  The 568,000 square foot facility, designed to accommodate 3,600 students, was completed on an expedited [...]