2024 and 2023

Chicago Ranked Top Metro for 10th Year in a Row (Site Selection Magazine)
https://siteselection.com/issues/2023/mar/places-you-can-trust.cfm

City Approves New Hotel Design for Bally’s Casino (Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/2/8/24066588/chicago-casino-hotel-redesign-ballys

SALT SHED BRINGS NEW LIFE TO HISTORIC CHICAGO COMPLEX (Venues Now)
https://venuesnow.com/salt-shed-brings-new-life-to-historic-chicago-building/

The planned 606 Trail extension is short, but it would get you past Ashland and the Kennedy car-free (Streets Blog Chicago)
https://chi.streetsblog.org/2023/08/08/the-planned-bloomingdale-trail-extension-is-short-but-it-would-get-you-past-the-kennedy-and-ashland-car-free

New Bathhouse to go up in the West Loop (Axios Chicago)
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2023/10/29/bathhouse-west-loop

Massive Guinness Chicago Brewery set to Open in the West Loop (NBC Chicago)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/when-does-guinness-chicago-brewery-open/3234422/

West Town and West Loop Development Boom Maps

Mapping the Development Boom Along Milwaukee Avenue - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/maps/mapping-milwaukee-avenues-development-boom

Mapping the West Loop's Unprecedented Development Boom - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/maps/west-loop-development-chicago-map

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2022

Chicago again named top city for corporate expansions (Site Selection Magazine)
https://siteselection.com/issues/2022/mar/la-is-back-chicago-still-rules.cfm

New Chicago Music Venue, The Salt Shed Opens This Summer at the old Morton Salt Complex in West Town (NBC Chicago)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-chicago-music-venue-the-salt-shed-opens-this-summer-at-morton-salt-complex/2753983/

2021

Lucid Motors breaking into Chicago market with Goose Island facility (RE Journals)
https://rejournals.com/lucid-motors-breaking-into-chicago-market-with-goose-island-facility/

Sterling Bay Breaks Ground On Lincoln Yards’ First Building, A Massive Life Sciences Center (Block Club Chicago)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/10/19/sterling-bay-breaks-ground-on-lincoln-yards-first-building-a-massive-life-sciences-center/

CHICAGO VOTED BEST BIG CITY IN THE U.S. 5 YEARS IN A ROW (Conde’ Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards)
https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best-cities-us

2020

Chicago ranked most affordable housing market among 25 major global cities (UBS)
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-20200930-ubs-bubble-index-2020.html
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2019

Chicago once again ranks No. 1 in the nation in Site Selection’s annual Top Metros for corporate investment projects and relocation (Site Selection Magazine)
https://siteselection.com/issues/2019/mar/top-metros-of-2018-great-things-happen-here-hq2-or-not.cfm

‘Blue-Green’ Chicago River Corridor Would Generate $192M Yearly, Analysis Shows (WTTW)
https://news.wttw.com/2019/03/19/blue-green-chicago-river-corridor-would-generate-192m-yearly-analysis-shows

Lincoln Yards passes City Council (Crain's Chicago Business)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/lincoln-yards-passes-city-council

2018

Chicago Will Still Be A Homebuyer’s Bargain Well Into 2020 - Crain’s Chicago Business
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-will-still-be-homebuyers-bargain-well-2020s

Chicago is the Only Undervalued Housing Market in a Survey of 20 Major Global Cities - Bloomberg / UBS Group AG
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/chicago-stands-alone-as-undervalued-housing-market-ubs-says

Chicago #1 for Corporate Relocation and Investment 3 Years in a Row - Site Selection Magazine
https://siteselection.com/issues/2018/mar/top-metros-2017-repeat-defenders.cfm

Chicago #1 for Future Warehouse Development - CBRE / Chicago Business Journal https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2018/06/08/chicago-ranked-among-the-nations-best-markets-for.html

Chicago Makes Cushman & Wakefield’s ‘Tech Cities 2.0’ Top List - Cushman & Wakefield
http://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/research-and-insight/2018/tech-cities-2

Chicago Makes Top 10 Best Cities for Startups and Entrepreneurs List - Crowdspring
https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/startups-entrepreneurs-best-startup-cities-us/

Venture Capital Keeps Flowing Into Chicago - Pitchbook
https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/why-vc-keeps-flowing-into-chicago

Keller Williams is #1 Real Estate Franchise in the United States - Keller Williams Realty

2017

Sterling Bay Woos Amazon HQ With Renamed Finkl Steel Site — Lincoln Yards - Curbed Chicago
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170913/lincoln-park/finkl-steel-lincoln-yards-amazon-sterling-bay

What would Amazon do to Chicago's housing market? - Crain's Chicago Business
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20170914/CRED0701/170919946/what-would-amazon-do-to-chicagos-housing-market

Master plan for former Finkl Steel site finally unveiled - DNAinfo Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/chicago-development/2017/9/13/16302870/finkl-steel-lincoln-park-sterling-bay-606-extension

City selling 18 acres along Chicago river to Sterling Bay for $105 million - Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-fleet-facility-sterling-bay-ryan-ori-0801-biz-20170731-column.html

Mayor Emmanuel introduces transformative zoning ordinance for Chicago’s North Branch Corridor - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/6/29/15890824/chicago-urban-planning-north-branch-corridor-zoning-ordinance

Hundreds of residences planned for former industrial stretch of North Branch - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/6/19/15831078/north-branch-chicago-mixed-use-development

The 606 Bloomingdale Trail Rated One of the Best Bike Paths In the World - Bicycling Magazine 
http://www.bicycling.com/rides/destinations/chicagos-bloomingdale-trail-is-one-of-our-favorite-bike-paths-anywhere

Chicago Population Density Outpacing Major Metros - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/5/24/15683778/chicago-population-density

Chicago Plan Commission OK’s transformative North Branch initiative - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/5/19/15653184/chicago-north-branch-development-zoning-plan-commission

Two buildings in Wicker Park and Bucktown purchased by CIM Group for $58 Million - Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-cim-group-wicker-park-ryan-ori-0516-biz-20170515-column.html

City issues plan for 760 acres along Chicago River, likely to bring building boom - Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-north-branch-chicago-river-development-ryan-ori-0509-biz-20170508-column.html

City unveils $20 million Fulton Market streetscape project in West Loop - Crain's Chicago Business
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170207/BLOGS02/170209875/city-unveils-20-million-fulton-market-streetscape-project

Chicago Once Again Ranked Top Metro for Corporate Investment - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/5/1/15480788/chicago-corporate-relocations-investment

Assemble Coworking Coming to Wicker Park Warehouse on Division Street - DNAinfo Chicago
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170412/wicker-park/assemble-wicker-park-1714-division-st-phil-domenico-shared-offices-for-rent

West Town and Near West Side Single Family Home Prices Show Largest Increase in Price Since 2000 - DNAinfo Chicago
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170426/logan-square/single-family-home-prices-depaul-housing-real-estate

New $50 Million Green Line Station Planned Near United Center - DNAinfo Chicago
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170209/near-west-side/damen-lake-green-line-station-l-announced-united-center/

Hotel To Replace Wicker Gas Station OK'd By City Plan Commission - DNAinfo Chicago
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170216/wicker-park/1551-inc-shell-gas-station-hotel-wicker-park-planned

2016

The 606 – Taking Chicago’s Legacy of Great Parks to New Heights - American Planning Association
https://www.planning.org/awards/2016/606.htm

Report: Single family home prices near Chicago’s 606 Trail up nearly 50% since 2013 - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/11/1/13489884/chicago-real-estate-report-single-family-home-prices-606-trail

City planners show how the 606 trail could be extended eastward to Lincoln Park - Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/12/30/14124726/chicago-606-trail-extension-city-plans-lincoln-park-transportation

How Chicago’s industrial past may fuel a high-tech future and real estate boom - Curbed Chicago
https://www.curbed.com/2016/10/7/13203496/chicago-industry-manufacturing-development-google-soho-house-finkl

Logan Square Named One Of Nation's Coolest Neighborhoods - DNAinfo Chicago / Cushman & Wakefield
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160707/logan-square/logan-square-named-one-of-nations-coolest-neighborhoods

Why Chicago’s West Loop Is The Hottest Restaurant Neighborhood In America - Food Republic
http://www.foodrepublic.com/2016/04/28/why-chicagos-west-loop-is-the-hottest-restaurant-neighborhood-in-america/

Chicago’s Best Places to Live - Chicago Magazine
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/April-2016/chicago-neighborhoods/

Hot neighborhoods: Humboldt Park, West Pullman among areas showing gains - Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-hot-chicago-housing-markets-0207-biz-20160205-story.html

Five Housing Markets on the Verge of a Tech Boom - Ris Media
http://rismedia.com/2017/02/04/five-housing-markets-verge-tech-boom/#close

Report: Ukrainian Village to Have Nation's Hottest Housing Market in 2016 - Redfin / Curbed Chicago
https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/1/28/10872068/top-neighborhood-markets-for-2016

Chicago housing market saw solid improvement in 2015 - Housing Wire
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/36065-chicago-housing-market-saw-solid-improvement-in-2015

Chicago's coolest neighborhoods -- your Windy City top 5 - CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/travel/cool-chicago-neighborhoods-irpt/

36 Hours in Chicago’s Near Northwest Side Neighborhoods - New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/16/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-chicago.html

Logan Square One of the Coolest Neighborhoods in America - Thrillist
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/coolest-neighborhoods-in-america