Rachel Herzog

A retail store where customers can try out wearable products like AI-powered smart glasses from tech giant Meta is coming to Rush Street in the Gold Coast.

Charlene Hayes was devastated when Worthy, a service dog in training she’d worked with, died after being left in a car by a trainer — but she hopes the tragedy will bring greater public awareness for animal rights.

One year, Kim Glasser decided to celebrate her birthday by giving each of her family members money and asking them to tell her how they used it to help someone else. To her, the best gift was hearing about how her family “paid it forward.”

The second phase of Main Street Properties’ redevelopment of the 300 East Main property is taking fast strides forward with aboveground progress and continued community support.

The deal expands the footprint of developer Concord Capital and allows the firm to add more apartments to the supply-constrained North Side neighborhood.

Sales are bouncing back from a slowdown in recent years, when interest rate hikes that began in mid-2022 made larger deals more challenging.

The proposal for the former public housing site Stateway Gardens would bring a long-awaited grocery store to the neighborhood, with about 500 residential units planned for a later phase.

The Chicago area’s sustained rent growth is motivating out-of-state investors like Texas-based RPM Living to spend big on properties in the market.

Foxtrot plans to open a new store at a Lakeview apartment development that was formerly the longtime home of Swedish restaurant Ann Sather.

LG is scaling up as more big Chicago projects get financed, after years of challenges including elevated interest rates and rising construction costs.