Article in the local Oak Park paper with renderings.

http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles...igh_rise-case/

http://media4.oakpark.com/Images/2/2..._1_690x520.jpg

http://media4.oakpark.com/Images/2/2..._2_690x520.jpg

http://media4.oakpark.com/Images/2/2..._1_690x520.jpg
Images from said article

Interestingly, the wider facade runs parallel to Lake Street, the opposite of the current tallest in Oak Park, further west on Lake Street

^^ What a profoundly uninspired proposal

299'-4" to the roof.

that would make it the 3rd tallest building in suburban chicago, and taller than anything in NIMBY locked-down evanston (evanston's tallest is the 277' chase building built in 1969).



the only two taller towers in suburban chicagoland:

1. oakbrook terrace tower - 418'

2. gallagher centre in itasca - 394'

The residents in OP sound like a real barrel of laughs.

A recent example - one of the neighbors wrote to WALSH complaining about the work that NiCor was doing - insisting that WALSH remedy the temporary patches that NiCor put in. The very same folk who complain about traffic are the strongest supporters of closing off Marion st every Thursday (in the summer) for Thursday Night Out.

Putting forward a design that would be lame in Schaumberg - well that probably kills this right off.

I'm a little bit curious how NIMBYS haven't thwarted most proposals. Is there no alderman to get in the way like Chicago and Evanston?

We have aldermen at large - several for the entire village, and they are not bound to any particular geographic (or any other) boundary. Some of the guys elected in the last run said they were opposed to the Albion tower - then turned around and approved it.

Seriously... these people are terrified of shadows :koko:

Too bad.. I loved the idea of Oak Park advertising itself as an modern architectural Mecca. Of course there is still Frank but something new at this scale could have become an icon of the town and the Chicago metropolitan area at large.

Unfortunately none of the new high-rises are particularly iconic. They're not (all) bad, but just average.

A crane grows in Evanston

http://i66.tinypic.com/2u3yzqh.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/33tqes1.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/b6opk1.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/4v66p0.jpg

Lagrange strikes again.

https://i.imgur.com/lU0KltQh.jpg

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/resi...oak-brook-mall

It’s basically Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 3!

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20131126185424
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20131126185424

Here's a cool aerial of evanston. Red tower crane for Albion development is on the left.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1949/...a7560200_h.jpg
(11.3.18)-Fall_Aerials-WEB-5 by Nick Ulivieri, on Flickr

Looks like the core has topped out on Albion at Oak Park.

Also not sure if this has been posted here but Clark Construction has webcams for both Albion at Oak Park and Albion at Evanston here

I haven't been too thrilled about how some of Evanston's recent projects meet the street.

^^^
It should be about twice as tall for it's location but I think how this one meets the street looks pretty excellent.http://i65.tinypic.com/4v66p0.jpg

which ones?