A construction permit was issued by the City of Chicago on September 4 to replace a Lake View single-family home sold in July with two new dwelling units. The permit was issued 37 days after its application start date of July 29 and includes a reported cost of $752,250. The entity of 1438 W Henderson LLC is named as the property owner.
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.
The west tower crane at McDonald’s Park, the first of two rigs that will erect the Chicago Fire’s new stadium, will soon have a sibling to play with on the east side of the construction site. The base—a much longer tower crane base than we usually see planted in the ground—is now standing at The 78, awaiting full setup.
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.
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.
