Developer Albert Friedman would build a new River North firehouse for the Chicago Fire Department topped by a big office and mixed-use tower under a deal he just reached with city officials.
Today, Albert Friedman’s company owns about a dozen blocks of River North, properties that include 32 restaurants, a hotel, retail, offices and other uses.
The afternoon glow of a sinking sun peeks through Albert Friedman's office, backlighting a bookcase filled with green, blue, and caramel-colored glass bottles still frosty from the Great Chicago Fire that glazed them more than a century ago.
Chicago’s humanitarian chef Rick Bayless has achieved what only one other chef has done before: earning the coveted “Outstanding Restaurant” award by the James Beard Foundation for his side-by-side restaurants.
Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago was ideally situated on the waterways of Illinois to take advantage of the trading possibilities by the nation’s westward expansion.
