Inland Steel Company

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The Inland Steel Building, a landmark of postwar modern architecture, took a key step toward a major renovation Tuesday when a Chicago panel approved a financing plan for rehab work. The Community Development Commission green-lighted tax-increment...

Each day, rail cars carrying steel slabs minted some 300 miles east at Baltimore County's Sparrows Point mill arrive at Esmark Inc.'s Wheeling-Pittsburgh plant here. Huge trucks with claws in their underbellies grab the slabs and haul them to Wheeling-...

As a fifth-grader, James P. Bouchard went on a tour of the Inland Steel mill with his father, an executive at the Chicago plant, and from then on knew what he wanted to do with his life. "My father was my hero and my idol," Bouchard, 45, said yesterday....

The multinational joint venture taking over the Sparrows Point steel mill is a mixture of big steel buyers, distributors and iron ore suppliers who pledge to boost slab production at the plant and give it the kind of stability its three past owners failed...

Chicago's great gamble in the sky is about to begin in earnest--and the odds are now better that it will succeed as a work of skyline sculpture and as a building that engages the city around it. After months of struggle, Zurich-based architect Santiago...

Tribune Tower's neo-Gothic architecture, facade carved of Indiana limestone and prime location make it an iconic gateway to North Michigan Avenue. But as Tribune Co., which occupies about 93.5 percent of the tower's 631,000 square feet, seeks to...

Carl Sandburg got it right when he penned these words about an earlier Chicago building boom: "Put the city up / tear the city down / put it up again / let us find a city." Chicago is again re-inventing itself, and the view is mesmerizing, terrifying,...

Donald Trumps's 90-story hotel and condominium tower, which appears more real than ever after Thursday's ceremonial start of demolition on the Chicago Sun-Times Building, has more going for it than the hype associated with the reality TV show "The...

'Millennium Park was first conceived in 1997," proclaims a City of Chicago Web site, "with the original mission of creating new parkland in Grant Park to transform the unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots that had long dotted the lakefront in...

The Loop is a visual feast of world-famous buildings, but it also offers rare cases of aesthetic indigestion. LOVELIEST: 1. Monadnock Building, 53 W. Jackson Blvd. -- An unadorned wonder, with thick brick walls that curve inward and upward to suggest an...

FDR's secretary of labor, social reformer Frances Perkins, argued that the steel industry's low wages and ban against unions were undemocratic and threatened the nation's stability. All of the major steel companies had company unions, such as Bethlehem'...