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Commercial real estate sales see a split in Chicago as another Mag Mile building goes up for sale. Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Danny Ecker has details on that story and more.

WTTW News | July 12, 2021 4:30 pm A Gold Coast parking garage long in need of repairs is being shut down by the city in the wake of the condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida. The maker of Palatine-based Weber barbecue grills files to go public. And a major apartment sale signals a quickly recovering downtown market. Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Danny Ecker joins us to go behind the headlines.

Crains Chicago Business has garnered several honors in two recent journalism awards programs. The Chicago Headline Club on May 13 granted Crains its coveted General Excellence award in the non-daily category. Crains Aug. 27 Forum on Education—part of the publications ongoing monthly series exploring major public policy challenges facing the region—won honors for best education reporting in the non-daily category. Several individual staffers were also singled out for special honors in the co...

An underfunded, understaffed tourism and conventions agency puts Chicagos post-pandemic rebound at risk. My colleague Danny Ecker reports in Crains this week that Choose Chicago, which promotes the city to tourists and convention planners, is heading out of the pandemic with half the budget and staff it started with. Hotel tax revenues that provide much of the agencys funding plunged during the worst of COVID-19, forcing deep cutbacks. More Plummeting tax collections reflect COVID-19s impact o...

James R. Thompson Center Rethinking what to do with the James R. Thompson Center in the heart of the Loop was always going to be a challenge. Was it possible to refurbish the deteriorating structure in need of at least $325 million in deferred maintenance and preserve a massive atrium thats prohibitively expensive to heat and cool? Or would it be better to tear the whole thing down—the objections of its star architect, Helmut Jahn, and his fans notwithstanding—and erect something entirely n...