Articles by Daniel Schell

Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences September 2026 construction update

Loyola University’s Sciences Building Rises Above Street Level On Its Rogers Park Campus

After months of foundation work beneath the surface, Power Construction’s progress on the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University has reached the first floor above ground. No longer visible on the construction site are mounds of sand and earth, and the cross-bracing steel tubes keeping the excavation walls in place. Although there is still a small window to peek at those on the site’s north end. Of course, there is still lots of concrete, concrete forms, and rebar as the main floor nears covering the foundation over completely.

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566 West Van Buren topped out, first glass

Topped Out 566 West Van Buren Adds First Panes Of Glass

Now and then, the first panes of glass show up at a construction site, only to be removed and replaced by a different style of cladding. But the first level of curtainwall at 566 West Van Buren wraps around the southwest corner of the second floor, indicating that it’s more than just a sampling, as can be the case when only a panel or two are installed on a single facade.

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1332 West Grand Avenue demolition complete

Aya Pastry Demolition 97% Complete As Pending Nine-Unit Permit Awaits

Only rubble and one story’s worth of west and north wall remain on the former site of Aya Pastry at 1332 West Grand Avenue in West Town. The neighborhood bakery closed in August 2025, and its building was slated for demolition in June of this year. Our site visit at the end of June showed the building still standing but surrounded by demo fencing, with a crew and excavator on the lot starting prep work.

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Demolition and construction permitted at 1527 West Edgewater Avenue

Same-Day Permits Allow Church Demolition, Redevelopment At 1527 West Edgewater Avenue

Permits issued on September 3 allow the demolition of the former North Side United Pentecostal Church in Edgewater and the construction of its residential replacement. The demolition permit for 1527 West Edgewater Avenue, which will be carried out first, entered the data portal on July 7, 58 days before its issuance with a reported cost of $60,000. Tir Conaill Concrete is named as the demo contractor.

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