As the driving of piles at The 78 continues for the new Chicago Fire soccer stadium, the next permit is now in place. Permission for shallow foundations, which had been pending since February 20, was issued on April 24, and it includes a reported cost of $15.4 million. This follows the stadium’s first permit, for driving said piles, which came through on March 20.
A single-family residence on West Lyndale Street in Palmer Square that was permitted for demolition in April will be replaced by a three-story with basement, two-unit building thanks to a fresh May permit. A developer named as 3122 Lyndale LLC received permission to erect the two-flat on May 1 at 3122 West Lyndale. The permit has an application start date of February 16, and it comes through with a reported cost of $1.1 million.
The six-story loft office building at 168 North Clinton Street in the West Loop was permitted for demolition on January 22. It has taken some time to get preliminary work done inside the building in preparation for the razing, but that’s been accomplished now, and demo work is expected to begin in earnest within the next two week.
One parcel on a vacant swatch of South California Avenue in North Lawndale has been approved for a new three-flat. The city issued a permit for a three-story, three-unit building at 1124 South California on May 1 with a reported cost of $450,000. It had been pending in the Chicago Data Portal since February 10, a duration of 58 business days.
A three-story plus basement, two-unit residential building has been permitted by the City of Chicago to replace a frame home and its detached garage at 1936 South May Street in the Pilsen neighborhood. The new permit shows an application start date of November 11, 2025, and it came though on April 15 with a reported cost of $600,000.
