Vacancy rate on State Street downtown is higher than ever 02:42. CHICAGO (CBS) -- State Street is a cultural anchor, a shopping destination, and an important part of Chicago's history.

State Street panel floats ideas to put welcome mat on ‘Chicago’s front porch’ Plans would divide the corridor between Wacker and Ida B. Wells drives into three distinct districts ...

Exterior work is performed March 5, 2021, at Primark, 35 N. State St., in Chicago. The store, the apparel retailer’s first in Chicago and third in the U.S., opened March 11.

Sears began as a catalog, and opened its first downtown department store on State Street in 1932. Its last department store in Illinois – at Woodfield Mall – closed last year. "Sears was, in a ...

Preservation Chicago is part of a development team, including architects, engineers and finance experts, proposing a national archive center in the State Street complex, a solution that, unlike ...

Preservation Chicago's annual list starts with two early 20th century towers on State Street, holdovers from prior lists, and includes neighborhood sites with architectural or historic interest.

A venture of New York-based DRA Advisors recently sold the Shops at State Place at 1103-1155 South State Street for $11.5 million at an auction, a 23 percent loss.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A proposal aims to save two historic Chicago buildings from being demolished. The Century and Consumers Buildings are located in the 200-block of South State Street.

The Chicago Loop Alliance wants to see State Street transformed into the future. SEE ALSO: 'Sundays on State' returns this summer with an expanded footprint "The public realm is changing.

The Century Building, which has stood at 202 S. State since 1915, and the Consumers Building, finished in 1913 at 220 S. State, have been federal property since 2005 and vacant most of the time since.