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Working Lunch Friday, February 21, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. Hundreds of vacant lots in Chicago, many in South and West side neighborhoods such as Englewood and North Lawndale, have been put on the market in the largest such land sale the city has seen in recent years.
The lots, some of which were in poor condition, have been listed for sale as part of bankruptcy proceedings involving a pair of property owners who amassed $15 million in unpaid fines on the land parcels, and who city lawyers have deemed Chicago’s “worst landowner.” And in additional housing news, the Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday approved a land use plan that could bring thousands of new housing units to a 20-block stretch of Broadway in Edgewater and Uptown. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Get news alerts | Top business stories | Real estate | | | | Community advocates say it’s a chance to get the properties into the hands of fresh owners who can fill the empty spaces with new homes, businesses or affordable apartments. | | | | | City planners said the land-use framework will cut red tape for developers and increase housing density, hopefully allowing more residents to move into the transit-rich corridor. | | | | | It had announced plans to close its clinics in Englewood and Uptown and three food pantries earlier this month. | | | | | The order, unanimously approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission, directs the utility to retire the remaining 1,000 miles of aging, leak-prone cast iron and ductile pipes running under Chicago by 2035. | | | | | The proposed bargaining unit would include hundreds of assistant state’s attorneys who staff the country’s second-largest prosecutor’s office. | | | | | The group and two other nonprofits filed the lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to halt three recent executive orders. | | | |
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