Less shopping and more business. That could be the future for the upper floors of Chicago's iconic Water Tower Place. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch For years, both the ...

Scott Stantis editorial cartoon for Wed, July 2, 2025, on Water Tower Place (Scott Stantis/For the Chicago Tribune). Lots of suburban malls have, or had, three floors.

Water Tower Place The mall was once the cornerstone of one of the city’s preeminent shopping, dining and entertainment districts. Now, the owner is scaling back on retail spaces in the building.

Water Tower Place owner pitches mall consolidation, lists upper floors for sale Owner MetLife started to explore consolidating the mall’s retail space last year and is now looking to sell, or ...

An iconic Chicago mall is shedding square footage in a bid to stay alive. The upper floors of Water Tower Place at 835 North Michigan Avenue will be converted into office and medical space, while ...

When Water Tower Place opened its cosmopolitan doors in 1975, the audacious notion was that all of the upscale delights of a suburban shopping center could be replicated on prime Magnificent Mile ...