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Old Posted Feb 9, 2014, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by ChiTownCity View Post

Also, what ever happened to that 50 story high rise (kind of resembled the Legacy) that was proposed for Evanston a few years ago? I'm guessing it's completely dead by now but I remember that the plans were altered and resubmitted but haven't heard anything about it since then...
it's dead. Last fall the developers applied for a 3 year extension on the approval, but evanston's city council has turned a lot more NIMBY than when the project was first approved 5 years ago, so the extension was denied and the developers have since walked away.

you can read the entire 17 page saga of evanston's now-dead fountain square tower in the following thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=166005
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