West Loop · Developments

West Loop developments

Building permits are filed with the City of Chicago and published in the Chicago Data Portal — that is the authoritative source for what is under construction at any given moment, and this page is a wayfinder to it. The projects listed below are the landmark completions that reshaped the neighborhood between 2015 and 2021, each with cited press coverage.

They are not the current pipeline, and this page does not yet track it. Building has continued since: in June 2026 the City Council approved a 29-storey, 347-apartment tower with a public park at 215 N Racine (Block Club Chicago, June 2026), one of roughly a dozen projects moving through approval or construction. Until this page tracks them properly, the permits dataset is the honest place to look.

Where to find current permits

The City of Chicago publishes every building permit issued in the city on the public Chicago Data Portal. Filter to the West Loop ZIP codes (60607, 60606, 60661) or by address:

• Chicago Data Portal — Building Permits (dataset ydr8-5enu) ↗
• City of Chicago — Department of Buildings ↗
• City of Chicago — Zoning and Land Use Planning ↗

Notable recent and in-progress projects

Each project below has substantial public press coverage. The "Status" reflects publicly-reported progress at the time of last page review.

• 1K Fulton

  1000 W Fulton Market · Completed 2015

  Conversion of the 1923 Fulton Market Cold Storage building into Class A creative office space, anchored by Google's Chicago headquarters. Developed by Sterling Bay.

  Sources: Sterling Bay — 1K Fulton

• 167 N Green

  167 N Green St · Completed ~2021

  Sterling Bay-developed 17-story Class A office tower on Green Street, anchoring the corridor's second wave of tech-tenant towers.

  Sources: Sterling Bay — 167 N Green

• The Hoxton Chicago + 200 N Green

  200 N Green St · Hotel opened April 2019

  Hotel, restaurant, and co-working complex. Combined restoration of a 1929 commercial building with a new addition; 182 hotel rooms plus Cira (ground-floor restaurant), Cabra (rooftop), and Working From_ co-working.

  Sources: The Hoxton Chicago · Block Club Chicago — Boutique Hoxton Hotel Makes Its Fulton Market Debut

• Old Post Office redevelopment

  433 W Van Buren St · Restoration completed 2020

  2.5-million-square-foot Art Deco postal building restored 2017–2020 by 601W Companies. One of the largest historic-building renovations in the country. Tenants include Walgreens, Uber, Cisco, PepsiCo, plus public-facing ground-floor retail.

  Sources: 601W Companies — The Post · Wikipedia — Old Chicago Main Post Office

• McDonald's Global Headquarters

  110 N Carpenter St · Opened 2018

  Built on the site of the old Harpo Studios (Oprah Winfrey's production complex, demolished 2016). McDonald's relocated its headquarters from suburban Oak Brook to this Fulton Market site, anchoring the corridor's corporate-relocation wave.

  Sources: McDonald's — Chicago HQ announcement · Chicago Tribune — coverage

How to look up a specific address

To find permits for a specific West Loop address: open the Chicago Data Portal Building Permits dataset (linked above), use the filter panel on the right, and search the street_name or street_number fields. The permit type (NEW CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, etc.) tells you what's being done; the issue_date tells you when it started.

For zoning matters affecting a specific block, see the alderperson covering that ward; community zoning meetings are posted via the ward office (see meetings index).

A live permits feed pulled into WLV is a planned follow-up (npm run fetch:permits) — it requires adding a new data- source dependency on the Chicago Data Portal Permits dataset. Until then, the dataset link above is the authoritative live source.