Vol. 01 · The LaSalle Edition
★ chicago cultural Publication
A local story library
Urban Stories of Promise.
Enjoy every dispatch from LaSalle Street, live from the urban front.
Enjoy every dispatch from LaSalle Street, live from the urban front.
We started Meet Me on LaSalle because the comeback of downtown Chicago deserved real-time documentation, not a retrospective written five years too late. What follows is the full record so far. Come read, contribute, follow and be part of the movement. The evolution of LaSalle Street and the Loop is indeed a movement.
Lead story on top; it sets the frame and the vision. Everything flows from these sparks, conversions, tenants, heritage walks, strange corners and random real estate futurists.
The Financial District is developing a social life, and a hipster flair. The tie is coming off.
Read the letter →A William Le Baron Jenney-designed building from 1893 is converting to 207 apartments on LaSalle Street, landmark protection included. Chicago gets this one right.
The Field Building, a 1934 Art Deco landmark at 135 S. LaSalle, is converting into 386 apartments and retail — the Loop's biggest bet on life after office hours.
See something changing? New restaurant. Historic detail. Construction update. Perfect martini. Send it.
We're building a living archive of LaSalle's next era and we want contributors, collaborators, photographers, insiders, architecture nerds, business owners and curious people who still believe cities can surprise you.