A car fire in the garage of a high-rise building in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood prompted a massive emergency response ...

Residents at luxury high rise Astoria Tower in the South Loop are fed up, saying elevators are broken for months at a time, trash has been piling up and maintenance requests go unanswered. They've now ...

Few buildings in Chicago stand taller than 1000M, one of the city’s newest high-rise residential complexes. Few are also as luxurious. 1000M, designed by famed architect Helmut Jahn of the eponymous ...

On March 28, artists Jan Tichy and Efrat Appel put 134 self-contained, battery-powered LED modules in each of Chicago high-rise housing project Cabrini-Green’s 134 vacated apartments. Cabrini-Green ...

On this day in 1995, crews began the demolition of a Cabrini-Green high-rise, the first in the Near North Side complex to be razed. Built over two decades starting in 1942, the story of the towers and ...

The Chicago tech executive found “pulverized” and missing a foot at the bottom of a staircase inside a luxury condo, was allegedly murdered by her husband, who is currently locked up for assaulting ...

Chicago-based developer Convexity Properties wants to build a 28-story apartment tower at the corner of State and Elm streets in the Gold Coast neighborhood.

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Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...