Hub32's permitted was approved, bringing 51 new homes to East Garfield Park, along with ground floor commercial & office space, and green roofs. This is an INVEST S/W project. https://buff.ly/yKLA9gv
Hub32's permitted was approved, bringing 51 new homes to East Garfield Park, along with ground floor commercial & office space, and green roofs. This is an INVEST S/W project. https://buff.ly/yKLA9gv
$800K new construction on W 110th St in Morgan Park: new 3-flat residence with ground floor accessible home (replacing one of the houses shown here) https://buff.ly/Lp7becW
Lincoln Park Zoo's Café Brauer getting $611K in exterior repairs. Work includes wall, roof and concrete restoration at N Stockton Dr. https://www.chicagocityscape.com/permit/101074576
$2M Lake View development: 4-home residential building with basement, roof decks, and a 5-car garage. Three stories of new construction rising at School Street. https://www.chicagocityscape.com/permit/101084199
Five new homes coming to Clark Street in Lake View. $1.4M project brings a 4-story masonry building with garage and roof deck. https://www.chicagocityscape.com/permit/101076759
I looked at all of the Chicago community areas to see how much their small-scale new home construction has sped up, comparing new-construction permits issued in 2024-2025 against 2021-2023. I counted buildings with one to six units — single-family homes, two-flats, three-flats, and small six-flats, the housing types that built much of the city and that Chicago spent decades barely permitting. North Lawndale stands out, and the sharpest acceleration is in the "missing middle" of two- to six-unit buildings, where its permitting pace has more than quadrupled.
New-construction permits for 1-to-6 unit buildings in North Lawndale, 2021-2026, symbolized by dwelling…