The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday endorsed the first phase of a plan by the Reinsdorf and Wirtz families to remake the Near West Side neighborhood around the United Center. This initial step ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A $7 billion commercial, residential and entertainment district planned near the United Center easily cleared the first hurdle Thursday. The Plan Commission unanimously approved ...

Walter Burnett, who is the Chair of the Chicago Plan Commission. The project is also in his 27th Ward. “Those of us who live in the community are very open to this because we’ve been literally ...

The first phase of what's been dubbed the 1901 Project would include a 6,000-seat music hall, a 233-room hotel, retail space and two parking structures, according to the proposal. The whole project ...