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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Roeder

Design contest invites architects’ best ideas for housing on the South, West sides

An example of infill housing proposed in Denver by the firm Productora, one of the entrants in Chicago Architecture Center’s design competition. (Provided)

Maybe, as an engaged Chicagoan, you have wondered about all the vacant land on residential blocks in the city but mostly on the South and West sides.

Maybe you have asked yourself why, with all the architectural brainpower for which Chicago is acclaimed, more designers aren’t clamoring to build on those sites. Architects compete for the business of building the next Fulton Market high-rise or the next mansion on the North Shore. What about the opportunity to build homes for people of modest means in neighborhoods that could use the attention?

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