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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Roeder

No sweat: A Chicago developer bets on a bathhouse for the Near West Side

A rendering of Bathhouse, a 40,000-square-foot wellness facility planned at 1010 W. Madison St. (Gensler)

There’s a bathhouse due to be built on West Madison Street.

If you’re a Chicagoan with a few decades traversing its grid, that first sentence will conjure several images, some none too positive. Bathhouses have a long and checkered history here. So does West Madison Street, which decades ago meant Skid Row to people who knew Chicago.

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