McDonald’s Park isn’t the only job site in town with a shiny new yellow Liebherr tower crane; there is now a 420 EC-H doing the heavy lifting for the parking garage at The 1901 Project, too. The crane’s base was planted in the Neat West Side ground back in July. We can’t say exactly when the rest of it was erected, but it’s been there long enough to set some heavy ironwork over the below-ground loading dock off Damen Avenue.
For the first time since since Fall 2017, there are two tower cranes on a McDonald’s job site, though this time they’re building a very different project. The east crane at McDonald’s Park at The 78 in the South Loop has been erected, allowing construction on the Chicago Fire’s new stadium to progress away from the river towards Clark Street.
A pair of frame two-story structures sold by St Gregory the Great Parish in Andersonville have been razed and the lots permitted for two single-family residences. Three demolition permits were issued for the two buildings at 1621 and 1625 West Bryn Avenue on July 22, including one to remove a shared oversized garage at the alley behind the properties. Maxym Demolition of St Charles was contracted to to do the work at a reported cost of $22,500 for each frame building and $9,500 for the masonry garage. A visit to the site on September 7 showed only a small amount of rubble remaining.
A permit issued by the City of Chicago on September 15 allows for the construction of a five-story, 24-unit residential building on a vacant lot spanning 1815-1821 North California Avenue in Logan Square. Permission was granted for the project after a 119-day wait in the Chicago Data Portal, and it comes through with a reported cost just over $4 million. Stanislaw Chodak and Wes Kahn are the co-developers for the new homes.
With the issuance of a new construction permit on September 18, developer 4Corners LLC can begin erecting a residential project at 1455 West Fillmore Street on the Near West Side. City Council approved the five-story, 50-unit building back in October 2025, and an application to build was filed for on February 25 of this year. It had a 205-day wait in the data portal before coming through.
