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Chicago begins June 2024 with eight tower cranes working the skies

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Chicago has begun June 2024 with eight working tower cranes around the city, down one from the nine we had in May. The base has been planted at 1723 South Michigan, but the crane won’t be erected there until early June.

The South Side still rules, with five of our eight cranes. One South Side crane came down in May (at 4822 S Cottage Grove) but two North Side cranes came down (O’Hare T5 garage and Illinois Masonic.) Here’s a quick survey for June:

What Community Area are the cranes in?

3 – Hyde Park (Hyde Park Labs, UChicago Medicine X2)
2 – Woodlawn (Obama Center, Project H.O.O.D.)
2 – Near West Side (220 North Ada, 919 West Fulton)
1 – Near North Side (400 Lake Shore)

Okay, but what neighborhood?

3 – Hyde Park (Hyde Park Labs, UChicago Medicine X2)
1 – Woodlawn (Project H.O.O.D.)
1 – Jackson Park (Obama Center)
2 – Fulton Market District/West Loop (919 West Fulton, 220 North Ada)
1 – Streeterville (400 Lake Shore)

What are they building?

Cultural Facility – 1 – 6001 S Stony Island (Obama Presidential Center)
Healthcare – 2 – 5644 S Drexel X2 (UChicago Medicine Cancer Care)
Office – 1 – 217 N Sangamon (919 West Fulton)
Community Center – 1 – 6822 S MLK Drive (Project H.O.O.D,)
Life Sciences – 1 – 5201 S Harper (Hyde Park Labs)
Residential – 2 – 220 North Ada, 462 N Water (400 Lake Shore)

Cranes added in May:

220 North Ada
462 N Water Street (400 Lake Shore)

Cranes taken down in May:

900 West Nelson (Illinois Masonic)
O’Hare Airport Terminal 5 parking garage
4822 S Cottage Grove (Northwestern Medicine Bronzeville)

Here are your June 2024 tower cranes, from north to south:

462 E North Water St. (400 Lake Shore)
217 N Sangamon St (919 West Fulton)
220 North Ada
5201 S Harper Ave (Hyde Park Labs)
5644 S Drexel Ave (UChicago Medicine)
6001 S Stony Island Ave (Obama Presidential Center)
6623 S Dr Martin Luther King Dr (Project H.O.O.D.)
Partial credit for the stub at 1723 S Michigan Ave, to be erected first week of June.

First Visit: Project H.O.O.D. is building a community center in Woodlawn

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The Robert R. McCormick Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center under construction.

Project H.O.O.D., established in 2012 by Pastor Corey Brooks, is going all out to provide the Woodlawn Community Area with a new state-of-the-art community center.

The Robert R. McCormick Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center will be a three-story, 85,000-square-foot mixed-use facility at the southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and 66th Street in the Woodlawn neighborhood. The center, which broke ground in Fall 2023, will include an auditorium, a gym with an indoor swimming pool, plus multiple restaurants and a bank in its retail spaces.

New Beginnings Community Development Corporation is listed on the permits as the developer of the center. LR Contracting is the general contractor; Goebel Forming is the concrete contractor. BNMO Design is the design architect. Construction is expected to take 24 to 36 months. That means the center could be open by the end of 2025.

So far, permits received, with the address of 6623 South Martin Luther King Drive, have been issued for:
The full build on 09/08/2023
the tower crane on 09/13/2023
another full build changing the electrical contractor on 02/02/2024
the fire alarm system on 03/28/2024

Photos taken 05/01/2024:

Tower crane seen from Hyde Park.

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