Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center has topped out new Lake View addition

Looking up the CTA rail tracks toward Illinois Masonic’s tower crane.

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is erecting a vertical expansion of the Center for Advanced Care at 900 West Nelson Street in Lake View, and it topped out earlier this month.

To date, GC Turner Construction has received permits for:
Foundations — Issued 01/12/2023
Core & Shell — Issued 01/19/2023
Tower crane foundation — Issued 04/12/2023
Tower crane — Issued 05/03/2023
Full building — Issued 06/20/2023
Hoist — Issued 08/20/2023

Photos taken Monday, February 26:

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Illinois Masonic erects a tower crane

Tower crane erection at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Lake View, Chicago
The tower crane goes up at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Lake View.

I went to the South Loop Friday to see a new tower crane, and found an even newer one in Lake View on the way home.

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is erecting an eight-story vertical expansion (if this was a house, it would be called an addition) addressed as 900 West Nelson Street. This construction is best viewed from an outbound Brown Line train, which is where I was Friday when I snapped a couple iPhone shots of the crane going up.

Turner Construction is the general contractor. It looks from the permits issued that SmithGroup is the design architect.

Almost as many permits and floors on this one. The construction itself was permitted in three phases, while the tower crane has two permits of its own:

Phase 1 issued 1/13/2023
Phase 2 issued 1/19/2023
Phase 3 issued 6/20/2023
Tower crane slab & earth retention issued 4/12/2023
Tower crane issued 5/3/2023

The tiniest gallery of iPhone shots taken August 18: