Tesla is renewing nearly 309,000 square feet at a Lockport logistics center used for parts distribution. The deal keeps a major back-of-house operation anchored along I-355.

Two Chicago apartment buildings just traded for $60 million. The deals put a Wirtz family tower and Rogers Park’s Vivian under new ownership.

Soul City Church’s proposed West Loop expansion promises more space but revives years of neighbors’ noise complaints. Residents want acoustic monitoring before the project moves ahead.

Old Mission Capital is leaving its Loop office for a 70,000-square-foot Fulton Market sublease. Its old downtown space will remain on the books through 2028.

Chicago’s ornate Fisher Building, now home to 184 apartments, has been listed for sale. The Loop landmark’s next owner could inherit one of the city’s most distinctive adaptive-reuse projects.

Infleqtion leased 7,500 sq ft at 125 S. Wacker to open a downtown Chicago Quantum Innovation Center as it prepares a 2027 hardware deployment at IQMP.

Street-level retail beneath the Palmer House Hilton is being offered at auction, including an 18,693‑sq‑ft flagship and multiple smaller storefronts.

Strategic Value Partners is joining Igor Gabal to convert parts of 300 West Adams into a data center, bringing fresh capital to a building long tied up in legal disputes. The conversion is expected to begin in 2026.

Tabani Group has listed Renaissance Place in Highland Park for just over $40 million; the mixed‑use complex is being marketed with a packet that highlights retail, offices and about 30 apartments.

Portage’s RDC moved to consolidate dozens of north-side parcels into four buildable blocks and authorized legal work ahead of a developer RFP. Infrastructure and easements will shape what comes next.

A new analysis says a 1GW data‑center campus could produce about $16.1B for Northwest Indiana, and a 1.5GW campus could hit $24.2B — but experts question how many permanent jobs will follow. Local fights over permits and power deals are already under way.

A historic Glencoe estate known as the Pabst mansion closed at $17.5 million, the highest publicly reported Chicago‑area single‑family sale this year. The 1936 Georgian house was extensively renovated after its 2017 purchase.

The Gary Common Council unanimously adopted an updated zoning map this week that creates new commercial and residential districts and ties the map to a unified development ordinance, prompting neighborhood pushback over heavy‑industry designations.