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Friday is the last day on which nominations will be accepted for the 5th annual Community Vision Awards, "recognizing projects and communities that demonstrate excellence in applying sound land use principles and demonstrate best practices within the Chicago region." The award is co-sponsored by ULI Chicago, the Metropolitan Planning Council, the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago and the...

Duke Miglin HotelI can't believe that they'll be left this way, but right now there are an increasing number of skeletons piling up in Chicago's construction closet, courtesy of an imploding real estate market.Crain's Chicago Business reported last week that work has ground to a halt - again - on 90-story Waterview Tower at Wacker and Dearborn. "Paperwork" - and the fact that everyone in China is a...

A stretch of Kinzie street has gone dark recently as the Jay Roberts Antique Warehouse has suddenly disappeared, leaving behind an empty building with windows alternatively soaped or boarded up.The Warehouse, a Kinzie Street mainstay whose lighted shop windows kept the street aglow, is one of the cases where even the building was subject to antiquing. A call to the phone number listed on the Jay Ro...

BBC photographSo that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time, be drunk, be drunk without ceasing. With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as per your taste.They like to call themselves "The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival", and with 84 concerts over 8 weeks, who's to argue? And you can come, too!The 2008 season of the London Proms starts today, Friday, July 18th. Every concert can be...