Architect bankrolls his own high-rise November 12, 2004 BY DAVID ROEDER AND FRAN SPIELMAN Staff Reporters Advertisement For years, Scott Sonoc has designed the buildings and renovations bankrolled by others, learning his craft while working in the firms of such architectural powerhouses as John Buenz and Helmut Jahn. Now, Sonoc the architect has become Sonoc the developer and he's aiming high -- or tall, to put it precisely. Sonoc has filed for zoning approval of an $80 million... Architect bankrolls his own high-rise ..read more

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With all the action happening in many other North American cities I feel like Chi-town is overdo for a big construction boom like Toronto or (to a lesser extent) NYC. The lack of decent projects for such a city is pretty disappointing, although all cities have their ups and downs. If a supertall was built during the recession and three were built back in the 1970's surely Chicago can do better than this. Thoughts ..read more

Are there any good newswire sites that focus on Chicago and the lower 48 states? V2COM has a lot of great content but most of the new articles seem to be outside of the US. Thanks in advance for your help ..read more

I know it seems like the setup to a swipe at the village. (In fact, I think I did make a one along this line in the Chicago in 2050 thread), but this is one of those "truth is stranger than fiction stories. The story in brief: 113 stories and 1,300 feet tall. Proposed in 1968 by developer Lee Romano for his "Schaumburg Planet" mixed use development. Financing was never found and the whole thing fell through. The only good... World's Tallest Building Once Proposed in Schaumburg (I'm not joking ..read more

Here's something I thought of, since so many people make threads like "I'm visting Chicago this summer, what are some must-see things?" or "What aree some things to do here?"Maybe we could make a sticky devoted to just that. A thread where we can post links, pictures, and suggestions of things to do and/or see in Chicago. Does anyone think it's a good idea ..read more

Hi all, From now on, I'll just use this one dedicated thread to share our new neighborhood write-ups/interviews instead of creating a new thread each time. Here is a link to our newest piece on Woodlawn: http://www.thecityofneighborhoodspro...7/4/3/woodlawn Link to the interviews: http://www.thecityofneighborhoodspro...nchor-Woodlawn Thanks for reading ..read more