A nearly 150-year-old frame residence at 1821 West Haddon Avenue in East Village received a permit from the city this month to convert its basement into an Additional Dwelling Unit. A private owner applied for the permit on December 2 of last year, and it came through on January 26 under the City of Chicago ADU Pilot Program with a reported cost of $25,000.
Renovation and expansion work on what was once the Happy Village bar is progressing well on Wolcott Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of West Town. A summer 2024 visit to the site showed little more than the north portion of the original building gutted, with barren space behind it and to the south. Now, lot where the demolished single-story portion of the bar used to sit has been improved with a two-story building that stretches to the rear of the construction site.
The City of Chicago has issued a new construction permit for a three-story with basement, three-unit residential building at 1029 North Winchester Avenue in East Village. An application was filed for the new development on February 14, and the permit was issued March 12. Schiller Development Incorporated is named as the developer and general contractor, with an estimated build cost of $1.24 million.
A three-flat has been granted permission to begin construction at 957 North Winchester Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of West Town. Permitted by the City of Chicago on January 6, the new residences will replace an empty grass lot one door south of the intersection with Augusta Boulevard.
A permit for new construction has been issued for the property at 1016 North Hermitage Avenue in East Village. The permit, issued on September 4, allows for the construction of a 3-story, 3-unit residence with…
