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🏗 I brake for tower cranes, then post them at https://nitter.cf/t.co/RbnqMKcFn2 🏗 Views are my own; you have no right to block them with your building.

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No idiots with cameras standing in the middle of Lake Shore Drive were harmed during production.
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The five-unit replacement was permitted for construction on Friday.
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In more church demolition news, the First Romanian Baptist Church at 2622 North Ashland was permitted for demo yesterday, to be replaced by a five-unit residential building with a still-pending permit.
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This was permitted yesterday.
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The 47th Ward has signed off on 8 condos for the vacant lot at 4447 North Ashland. An 8-unit building was completed next door about 2 years ago.
via the 47th ward newsletter

ALT via the 47th ward newsletter

The vacant lot at 4447 North Ashland Avenue

ALT The vacant lot at 4447 North Ashland Avenue

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A photo from the 42nd Ward of Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony for DuSable Park.
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Chicago's Polish Cathedrals.
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The $177 million full building permit was issued yesterday for the music hall at The 1901 Project. Here are some foundation photos from late September: chicagoyimby.com/2026/09/the…
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B Talent@minc798Oct 29
It appears JDL is going much larger than planned for their next building at North Union in Chicago New construction permit was submitted today for 915 N Franklin for a new 22 floor, 254 unit building. Original plans was for a new 12 story, 100 unit building... HUGE increase
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The $112 million full building permit for Julep West Loop was issued yesterday.
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Adjustable Concrete and Summit Design + Build will put up a tower crane at 4006 North Sheridan. Now we know what the crane mat slab permit was for.
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What's hot? Football and NIMBYs.
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Lake Street Bridge reconstruction pics. if you subscribe to @AldConway's newsletter, you just got an email about L service disruption lasting into Wednesday morning. chicagoyimby.com/2026/10/l-s…
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They’re up a floor at Loyola since I was here Sunday
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4740 North Clark was permitted for demolition yesterday.
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Demolition fencing surrounds 4732-4754 North Clark Street.
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cnn.com/2026/10/22/style/ebo…
After a Black media empire fell, a photographer explored the extraordinary building left behind |...

After a Black media empire fell, a photographer explored the extraordinary building left behind |...

The Johnson Publishing Company commissioned a historic high rise in Chicago in 1972 that became a monument to Black culture. Four decades later, the photographer Barbara Karant explored the empty...

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Important tower crane news from the 2nd Ward office
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A permit for caissons, foundations, and elevator cores was issued yesterday (as 1004 West Hubbard)
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450 North Morgan Street Moves Forward With Rendering Revealed chicagoyimby.com/2025/07/450…
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Half of the Lake Street Bridge is gone, and I can't get over it
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410 North Elizabeth. Thanks for the heads-up, bc (a YIMBY reader)
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Looks like it could be a tower crane out in Galena from this angle..
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Welp. Someone just offered me their seat on the train. That’s the sign. The end is beginning.
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A demolition permit was issued yesterday to remove the top 80 feet of this smokestack at 5746 South Cottage Grove.
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