Articles by Daniel Schell

8255 South Green Street two-flat permitted

Two-Flat Residence Permitted On Vacant Corner Lot In Auburn Gresham

The City of Chicago has issued a new construction permit to erect a two-story plus basement, two-unit residence at 8255 South Green Street in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. The subject parcel lies on the northeast corner of Green and West 83rd Streets and has been vacant for at least 15 years, as far back as Google Street View can show. The site is large enough for additional development, but there are no other permits for this end of the block pending in the Chicago Data Portal.

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11353-11355 South Aberdeen Street two-flats permitted

Two-Flats Coming To 11300 Block Of South Aberdeen In Morgan Park

A pair of two-flat residential buildings were permitted this month to fill a vacant gap in the 11300 block of South Aberdeen Street in the Morgan Park neighborhood. Permits for 1353 and 11355 South Aberdeen were applied for on February 6 of this year. They were issued seven days apart, on July 13 (11353, a 157-day wait) and July 20 (11355, a 164-day wait) with reported costs of $500,000 apiece.

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6027 North Kenmore Avenue construction permitted

Two Dozen Units Permitted For 6027 North Kenmore Avenue In Edgewater

Nearly five years after a caisson permit was issued to begin construction on a seven-story Edgewater condo building, a new developer has received permission to try again on the same parcel. On July 17, Variable Properties LLC got a permit for a five-story, 24-unit residential project at 6027 North Kenmore Avenue, where a 2017 demolition laid waste to one of the last surviving homes by John Lewis Cochran. The permit had been pending in the Chicago Data Portal since March 13, and it came through with a reported cost of $2.7 million.

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Loyola University Arts & Science building July 2026 construction update

Still Awaiting Full Permit, Work Below Grade Continues At Loyola’s Sciences Building

Progress is starting to rise from below grade at Loyola University’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences building at 1144 West Loyola Avenue on the Rogers Park campus. Concrete walls and columns with protruding rebar, a solid sign that there will be more floors to come, are reaching up from beneath the surface, surrounded by a web of cross braces shoring up the perimeter walls.

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