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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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 ...