CHICAGO — More than 15 years after the recession shut down the “Chicago Spire” construction project, a groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday on a new project. Crews began filling in the ...

After the 150-story Chicago Spire project proposed for the same property failed, a gaping hole on the site sat undisturbed for 15 years, highlighting the difficulty of restarting a similar ...

The hole at 400 Lake Shore Drive at the site of the failed Chicago Spire project is in the process of being filled. A ...

The developer is buying a development site just west of its new apartment tower a few weeks after buying the debt on the failed Chicago Spire property a couple blocks away.

As the financial crisis worsened in September 2008, bankruptcy awaited General Growth Properties, and local projects like the Waterview Tower, Chicago Spire and Roosevelt Collection were headed ...