Chicago's Blackstone Hotel
Redo Removing Grime from Inn
Famous for 'Smoke-Filled Room'
Off to the side of an otherwise gutted and cavernous ninth floor of the historic Blackstone Hotel on South Michigan Avenue is a solitary hotel suite, its hardwood trim, fireplace and furniture intact.
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A Look at Five Redos

Stories worth Telling: Reviving, Historic Midwest Buildings
If the bricks and mortar of landmark Midwest buildings could speak, tales surely would be told of the aesthetic visions of iconoclastic architects, the region's once-grand industrial might and the places and events that drove millions to settle here.
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Prompting Preservation

Financial Incentives Offer Boost to Restoration Projects
In the historic restoration and rehabilitation market, if you offer incentives, they will come. As home to some of the best financial incentives in the country for historic preservation projects, Midwestern cities and communities are attracting developers to revive rundown structures and neighborhoods.
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West Suburban Conference Center

Holy Cow! Hotel Facility Rising in Lombard
The vision for an upscale hotel and conference facility in Lombard that was formed in the late 1990s will soon become a reality. The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center, as it is named, is topped out and taking reservations for September.
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Health Care Construction

Patient Safety as Critical as Bricks, Mortar In the never-ending flow of expansions and renovations to aging health-care facilities, infection control is as vital as the bricks and mortar.
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Clarian's Cure

Hospitals' Designs Aid in Healing Patients Indianapolis-based Clarian Health Partners Inc. is employing evidence-based design, a trend in hospital design, for two major projects under way in the central Indiana city.
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