Nearly 20 downtown restaurants, cafes and dessert shops opened in the spring, according to a report from the nonprofit ...

A new Barnes & Noble bookstore opened in the heart of downtown Chicago on Wednesday, while separately, a building that used to house an old Barnes & Noble store in the Gold Coast was being demolished.

Commercial property values in Chicago’s Loop, the city’s central district of skyscrapers, financial firms and offices that drives much of its economy, dropped by about 7.2% last year amid lower sale ...

Since 2021, the beloved street party Sundays on State has drawn nearly 1.5 million people to the Loop’s main drag, but, to the disappointment of many Chicagoans, it will not return this year. The 2026 ...

The Loop is back, according to the Chicago Loop Alliance’s newest recovery report. The quarterly “State of the Loop” monitors downtown’s rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic using metrics such as ...

While retail vacancy rates in Chicago's Loop and Magnificent Mile are up, there are signs the tide is turning and downtown is growing. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Vacancy rates in the Loop and the Magnificent ...

Chicago mayoral candidate and businessman Willie Wilson in July paid $5.2 million to buy outright the 49th-floor Loop condominium that he had been renting for the past several years.

More people are visiting downtown Chicago exploring restaurants, arts, and cultural events and experiences, according to the Chicago Loop Alliance. New data from the organization show numbers ...