When this shows up at your table, you better hurry and clean your plate.
Tuesday was Last Call at O’Brien’s Restaurant at 1528 North Wells Street in Old Town, as a crew from Heneghan Wrecking went about making space for a future hotel on the site. Permitted for demolition in March, O’Brien’s closed in late August, but plan to be back in business as part of the new boutique hotel slated for the site. That hotel, approved by the Chicago Plan Commission in June 2016, will be 13 stories high with 188 guest rooms, and, teamed with four single-family homes, will include demolition of the building next door, at 1520 North Wells.
-
- Rendering of the new hotel from Condor Partners
-
- The Demolition Permit.
-
- Heneghan WSrecking showing up to do what they do.
-
- The clock is being saved.
-
- The back of the house.
-
- Beer garden.
-
- There was a crowd, as expected.
-
- First came the fencing.
-
- And then the demolition.
-
- 1520 North Wells Street will also be demolished.
-
- But it has no demolition permit as yet.
-
- Bidding on this sign for the B.U.C. HQ.
-
- 1520 North Wells.
-
- Interior views Tuesday morning, just before demo began.
-
- 25
-
- These murals…
-
- …are gone now.
Building Up Chicago 