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Phillips Edison & Company (PECO) reported that Pete's Fresh Market at Baker Hill in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, hosted its grand opening on Thursday, September 26. The new Pete's store occupies [...]

The advantages of the state of Illinois as a business location are described, with focus on its excellent position in rail, road and lake transport networks combined with the introduction of modern technological facilities.

Gas stations, one of America's most prevalent and undistinguished building types, are generally considered architectural lightweights. One noteworthy exception to the norm appears in Glenview, Illinois, one of Chicago's suburbs. [...]

Ballroom dancing is for the birds! Well, unless of course your definition of ballroom includes trees, mud, hills and closed-course tracks. If that's the case, then the Fox Valley Off [...]

A forcemain/siphon system was used in the Lake Zurich Wastewater Transfer Facilities to transfer wastewater from Quentin Road to Des Plaines River Treatment Plant. The Quentin Road Pumping Station serves as a siphon during normal operation, with pumping required only during peak weather flows. The project received the Project of the Year Award in 1994 from the American Public Works Assn's Chicago Metro Chapter and an Engineering Excellence Achievement Award in 1995 from Consulting Engineers Council of Illinois., In 1988, the Village of Lake Zurich, Illinois (population 17,000) began investigating ways to reduce problems at its two overworked wastewater treatment plants, which were the subject of water quality [...]

China quietly builds, America noisily deliberates: why Barrington is not Beijing CHINA, as anyone with a television now knows, builds big. This can have a huge human cost. For the [...]

By Staff The newly opened Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center in Illinois was built with the future of technology in mind. 'We're prepared for things that are only dreams [...]

* Holland-Hinrichs Construction is building a 68,500-square-foot,120-room Sheraton Four Points in Fairview Heights, Ill. The...$8-million hotel is expected to be completed in [...]

PIONEER HI-BRED International Inc. has officially opened its new McLeansboro, Ill., seed production facility. The plant will be used exclusively for the conditioning of Pioneer brand soybean seed. The $10 [...]

Rohm and Haas Company will cease manufacturing operations at its. Chicago Heights, Ill., plant by September 30, 2002, resulting in the termination of about 41 positions. The manufacture of a [...]

ARLINGTON -- Illinois-based NyLok Fastener Corp. bought a 21,100-square-foot building at 3201 Dalworth St. in Arlington, where it plans to establish its first Texas manufacturing operation. NyLok, which makes self-locking, [...]

Co-op considers Gridley After rejecting Carlinville, Ill., last month, American Premium Foods (APF) Inc. of Belleville, Ill., is considering Gridley, Ill., 20 miles north of Bloomington, for construction of a [...]

Something about Southern California in the spring time From the Inland Empire to Los Angeles County, Southern California developers continue a torrid pace of new development. Four developers have more [...]

The Mark of the Quad Cities in Illinois has earned the respect and admiration of industry representatives, city officials and nearby residents. The imposing structure is two-stories high and occupies 11,000 square feet. The 12,000-seat arena's unique feature lies in its U-shaped design that allows a stage at any end to be easily seen from any location in the facility. The facility also has a terrace, a guest services area and a parking area that can accomodate 3,300 cars., The Mark of the Quad Cities can definitely hold its own. 'We're a world of class facility in a secondary market,' said Charlie Schilling, The Mark's director of marketing. 'It's [...]

The efficacy of geothermal wells as new cost effective HVAC system is examined. This system was developed by architect Gunny Harboe, and Architectural Consulting Engineers for restoring Frank Lloyd Wright's 1908 Unity Temple, which is located in Oak Park, Illinois.

The State of Illinois Center, located in Chicago, cost $172 million, is 17 stories tall, and has space for legislative leaders and state agencies. On the lower levels are small boutiques and shops, which in addition to the lack of physical barriers between agencies and partial-height walls, help lend an open feeling to the building. The move into the new building took place over a one year period and was accomplished one floor at a time.

A 1 million-square-foot distribution facility, with an estimated price tag of $25 million, is proposed for Southwestern Illinois' Gateway Commerce Center. Chicago-based First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. is negotiating with [...]

A combined recycling and waste-to-energy plant, touted as the most advanced of its kind in the US, will be operational by 1997 in Robbins, IL. The $400-million plant involved almost a decade of public-private partnership. The plant will feature the latest technology aimed at efficiency, reliability and environmental protection. It will process up to 1,600 tpd of residential and commercial waste, concurrently separating as much as 400 tpd of recyclables. The balance will be processed into refuse-driven fuel for the powerhouse, which will produce more than 50,000 KW for sale to a local electric utility., Robbins, Illinois should attract a lot of interest soon from public works official confronting dwindling landfill space. The southside Chicago suburb is participating in a public-private partnership that will bring [...]

The Mark of The Quad Cities was named to number five of Amusement Business Boxscores top ten for venues with seating capacity of 10,000 to 15,000. The Mark of the Quad Cities is a 12,000-seat facility in Moline, IL, which opened in May 1993. Seventeen shows in 1993 generated gross revenues of $3,030,303. Top-grossing events was the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Presents Walt Disney World on Ice, whose nine shows grossed $942,163., The Mark of the Quad Cities made its mark as one of AB BOXSCORES' top 10 venues with 10,000-15,000 seating capacity. The 12,000-seat facility, located on the banks of the [...]

In an effort to end corrosion problems on a 2,292-ft. bridge crossing the Illinois River at Peru, Ill., the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) applied a calcium sulfonate/alkyd (CSA) surface-tolerant [...]