It takes approximately 700,000 megawatt hours of electricity to power Chicago’s more than 400 municipal buildings every year. As of January 1, every single one of them — including 98 fire stations, ...

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The future of the federal government’s footprint in Chicago is uncertain as the Trump administration embarks on a plan to shed up to half of all government office space across the nation, while also ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC7 is teaming up with the Chicago Architecture Center as part of a new series called Chicago Uncovered to showcase locations, new and old, that distinguish Chicago among other ...

A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...

The chasm between Chicago's Class-A office buildings and the rest of the lot continues to grow, both in terms of asking rent and availability. Overall asking rents downtown ticked up 1.8% ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed fining building owners in the city who let their properties lie dormant. If approved, this could have a drastic impact on Chicago neighborhoods, as well as ...

Converting vacant office buildings into residential co-living units — akin to dorm-style housing — would help solve a trio of real estate problems bogging down Chicago, as the city tries to revitalize ...