56-story tower proposed at 669 North Michigan Avenue would contain 498 apartments and 26,000sf of retail space chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/42nd...

And in taller Plan Commission news, The Skyscraper Guy won approval to turn empty office space in the Pittsfield Building into more than 200 apartments chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/offi...

Yesterday, the Chicago Plan Commission approved a new Chicago Fire FC soccer stadium at The 78. This is Phase 1 of Related Midwest's megadevelopment at the South Loop site chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/chic...

Caissons permitted yesterday for 56 dwelling units about 11 feet from the Chicago Brown Line platform chicagoyimby.com/2025/09/cais...

August 12 progress report from 4907 North Paulina in Uptown, and a photo update from this weekend chicagoyimby.com/2025/08/prog...

FIve demolition permits issued today for the Damen Silos: 1. 1-story concrete silos 2. 10-story building/silos 3. 2-story masonry building 4. 1-story metal building 5. 1-story masonry building

The Chicago Department of Buildings issued a permit Thursday for the demolition of the iconic Damen Silos, a relic of the Southwest Side’s once-prominent grain processing industry. A demolition date is expected to be announced next week.

The original Redhot Ranch on Western Avenue in Logan Square got a demolition permit this week. It will be replaced by a residential building chicagoyimby.com/2025/07/orig...

Way better than my views from the ground

Sorry, B-sky, I forgot you were here. Have some 400 Lake Shore update for your feed chicagoyimby.com/2025/07/400-...

the tower crane is up! cc: @rsday.bsky.social @buildingupchicago.bsky.social

The Otis Elevator restoration project could very well turn out to be a spectacular reclamation. And I'm grateful they had so many doors open while they worked. chicagoyimby.com/2025/05/tran...

For the second time in 2025, an existing building erected a tower crane in crane-starved Chicago. This time, it's the Shedd Aquarium chicagoyimby.com/2025/03/shed...

The Thompson Center no longer looks quite so naked chicagoyimby.com/2025/03/firs...

Our latest newsletter, about 2024 building permits activity, went out today.

220 North Ada, keepin' it glassy chicagoyimby.com/2025/03/glas...

St. Ignatius is tearing down an 1880s residential building on Taylor Street, next to their athletic field chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/demo...

There seems to be bigger demolition news lately than construction news chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/firs...

Update on construction progress at 400 Lake Shore. But if you've been on The Drive, you already know chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/400-...

Just got word that this portion is gone, and now the entire Chicago Tribune Freedom Center has been leveled. Eradicated. Erased from existence.

Building permits were issued Thursday and Friday for two buildings with 40 units. They replace five buildings from the Mike's Furniture megaplex in Wicker Park chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/buil...

1235 and 1257 North Ashland have received their respective building permits. 1235 yesterday, and 1257 today chicagoyimby.com/2025/01/demo...

Fast Track was permitted for demolition in August. It's finally gone, and now work can start on 49 new residential units in the West Loop chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/fast...

One of two sets of buildings in the 1200 block of North Ashland being demolished for redevelopment, 1235 got its building permit today chicagoyimby.com/2025/01/demo...

Monday, from an unmistakably green Metra window. The Tribune Freedom Center, if not completely gone by now, probably will be by the end of the week.

Every time a vacant lot on the South Side gets a construction permit, an angel gets a puppy who gets its wings chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/firs...

This is a Breezy appreciation post chicagoyimby.com/2025/02/demo...

We need a new ordinance to make these block parties at soldier Field illegal

220 North Ada, Fulton Market's next apartment tower, topped out last week. 308 rental units on the way buildingupchicago.com/2024/11/18/m...

200 North Ada has topped out in the Fulton Market District x.com/ClaycoInc/st...

Block Club reported yesterday that demolition work had begun on the shuttered church t.co/v6FiqjzTkA buildingupchicago.com/2024/10/30/d...

Save a façade? How about we save three of 'em chicagoyimby.com/2024/11/stee...

Still a lot of interior work to do, with a Fall 2025 opening in sight chicagoyimby.com/2024/11/nort...

This isn't the only ugly lot on this block of North Clybourn that needs built up. Let this be just the start chicagoyimby.com/2024/11/four...

Remember 720 North Wells? Its replacement got a foundation permit earlier today.

A couple-of-weeks-old construction update at 400 Lake Shore. The Spire cofferdam is long gone, and this is starting to look like a building instead of a construction site buildingupchicago.com/2024/10/27/a...

I forget about this app until I see someone tweet their handle. I drop by today and my new notifications go back more than a month. Should I apologize? Anyway, here's an Obama Center Museum Tower update: buildingupchicago.com/2024/11/11/u...

My "mist" joke was pre-empted by "Ball's" instead of Bally's" and we regret the error. Deeply. I will now forget I'm on BlueSky for another month or so...

In case you mist it..... Demolition has officially begun to make space for Ball's Chicago Casino buildingupchicago.com/2024/08/13/t...

Not much left to see of Ryan Field buildingupchicago.com/2024/04/22/l...

Lots of photos of lots of concrete last week at the Obama Center Museum Tower. buildingupchicago.com/2024/02/27/f...

Dead construction site no more.....400 Lake Shore has come to life at the old Chicago Spire location buildingupchicago.com/2024/02/23/i...

Not gonna lie....I forgot I had this app

And yes, I often forget I signed up here.

Found new glass at 1114 West Carroll a couple weeks ago. Here are a couple late photos to prove it.

More of that thing where I take a ton of construction photos and put them into a blog post. Cassidy on Canal has been fun to watch. buildingupchicago.com/2023/08/21/a...

A very quick hitter here. 732 West Randolph is a new 8-story office building attached to the 6-story building next door. It looks good in this spot, PLUS it put a tower crane in the sky. That's a building that cares. http://buildingupchicago.com/2023/08/20/darn-near-done-732-west-randolph-edition/

#Lobsturricane

Bluesky veterans: How long does it take to see "bksy" references and *not* think "Banksy"?

Hello, Bluesky. Allow myself to intruduce......myself. I take construction photos in and around Chicago. Sometimes I even edit and post them, too. http://buildingupchicago.com/2023/08/20/633-south-lasalle-at-long-last-puts-up-a-tower-crane-and-rises-out-of-the-ground/