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Local Filmmaker Creating New ‘Movies The Store’ Concept in Evanston
A movie enthusiast has big plans for the former MBG Products space. It is being reported a new retail concept called Movies The Store is coming to downtown Evanston at 1043 Chicago Avenue. This will be a “boutique physical media store” for the Main Dempster-Mile business district. Owner Stirling McLaughlin told What Now Chicago he is hoping to open the store sometime next month as he recently received the keys.
Block Club Chicago
Whole Foods Coming To Former Family Dollar Store In Logan Square
LOGAN SQUARE — Whole Foods is coming to Logan Square. A Whole Foods Market is coming to the former Family Dollar at 2280 N. Milwaukee Ave., which closed in 2023 and has been vacant since. The popular high-end grocery store is in development at the site, a company spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The spokesperson did not have additional details to share.
hoodline.com
$310M Foreclosure Suit Hits Well-Leased West Loop Tower at 540 W. Madison
A West Loop landlord is staring down a $310 million foreclosure lawsuit, and the building at the center of it is no ghost tower. The office property at 540 W. Madison St. is described as well-leased, which makes the legal trouble a sharper jolt for a neighborhood that has been Chicago's office-market bright spot.
Grit Daily
connectcre.com
Savills Arranges Year Up United Headquarters Lease, Expansion to Other Cities
Savills advised Year Up United on its new Boston headquarters at 2 Center Plaza while also supporting the workforce development organization’s expansion in Providence and Chicago. Savills arranged Year Up United’s approximately 33,700-square-foot Boston lease and provided project management services to prepare the headquarters for occupancy. Managing director...
Illinois Jobs Desk
Chicago healthcare jobs: nurse practitioner, physiatrist, hospitalist, and dialysis RN roles
Chicago’s healthcare listings span clinic-based nursing, physician specialty care, inpatient medicine, and dialysis support. Molina Healthcare is hiring a full-time field nurse practitioner for in-person care across community and non-clinical settings, while Rush University Health System seeks a full-time interventional spine physiatrist with a mix of outpatient practice, procedures, teaching, and research. Saeed Medical Group’s hospitalist role centers on inpatient care with day-shift and nocturnist options, and Amergis has a part-time dialysis registered nurse contract focused on treatment in healthcare facilities. Together, these roles differ by setting, scope of practice, and employment type.
Austin Weekly News
Decrepit but historic, Laramie State Bank redo is next up
The Laramie State Bank building sits at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Laramie. Over decades, the remarkable art deco façade and its stunning interior have fallen into advanced stages of decay. The post Decrepit but historic, Laramie State Bank redo is next up appeared first on Austin Weekly News .
evanstonroundtable.com
CityPads proposes fourth development in south Evanston
Housing developer CityPads applied last week for a city zoning analysis of its fourth proposed housing development in south Evanston on Oct. 19. The eight-story, 111-unit apartment building planned for 1000 Chicago Ave. in the Third Ward would set aside 15% of its units, about 17, as affordable housing, meeting the city’s inclusionary housing ordinance requirements.
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blockclubchicago.org
Call Your Mother, East Coast Bagel Chain, Opens 2nd Chicago Shop In Lakeview
LAKEVIEW — Call Your Mother, a bagel deli chain that started at a Washington, D.C., farmers market, has opened its second Chicago shop in Lakeview. The shop at 2956 N. Sheffield Ave. opened Monday and serves the same menu as the company’s first Chicago location in Wicker Park, with bagels, breakfast sandwiches, deli sandwiches, pastries and coffee. But the Lakeview shop has its own look, with a wooden canoe, vintage-style camp pennants and a painting by local muralist Kevin Garbacz of the deli’s signature telephone wires on the building’s exterior.
htrends.com
U.S. RevPAR Rises 12.6% as Chicago Leads Major-Market Growth for week ending 24 October
The U.S. hotel industry recorded year-over-year gains during the week of Oct. 18-24, with occupancy, average daily rate and revenue per available room increasing. National occupancy reached 69.8%, up 4.8 percentage points from the comparable week in 2025. Average daily rate rose 7.4% to US$179.55, while revenue per available room increased 12.6% to US$125.31.
Daily Energy Insider
Illinois regulators OK ComEd’s construction of underground transmission project near Chicago
ComEd recently received approval from Illinois regulators to add new underground transmission lines that will strengthen the electric grid, improve service for customers, and support… The post Illinois regulators OK ComEd’s construction of underground transmission project near Chicago appeared first on Daily Energy Insider .
oohtoday.com
The Out-of-Town Crowd Hiding Inside Your Market
OOH Today’s Stat of the Week – Powered by StreetMetrics. In a few famous neighborhoods, most of the people driving and walking past billboards aren’t from around here. The Stat This time last year, more than 2 in 5 people who saw a billboard near Nashville’s Lower Broadway lived more than two hours away. That’s more than double the share on billboards elsewhere in the Nashville area. Times Square and the Las Vegas Strip drew out-of-towners at nearly twice the rate of their surrounding areas. Chicago’s Magnificent Mile drew them at about one and a half times.