Thompson Center

Less than four months after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a development team would take over the beleaguered James R. Thompson Center in the Loop, the governor’s office on Thursday announced a purchase and sale agreement has been finalized.

Illinois officials have started negotiations with a development group to sell the James R. Thompson Center for $70 million up front, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday.

Illinois officials have started negotiations with a development group to sell the James R. Thompson Center for $70 million up front, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

From a waterpark resort to a public school, seven finalists have been named in a design competition to repurpose a much-maligned state government building in downtown Chicago

The line for the Chicago Central Illinois Secretary of State Facility at the Thompson Center wrapped around the building Friday ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski captured just how long it stretched.

Within a week of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker formally putting Chicago’s Thompson Center up for sale, the building’s renowned architect, Helmut Jahn, died in an accident, and his death has renewed the debate over whether to save the Thompson Center, one of the most polarizing buildings in the city, or to demolish the structure. Jahn was killed while riding...

Discussions and disagreements continue over the unknown future of Chicago’s iconic Thompson Center. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who was known in Chicago for designing the city’s Thompson Center, was remembered Sunday for his creativity and incredible bodies of work.

A prominent German architect who designed Chicago’s state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington has been killed in a bike accident in Illinois

Illinois officially placed the James R. Thompson Center that houses state government offices in downtown Chicago up for sale, state officials said Monday.

The state of Illinois is purchasing a building in Chicago’s West Loop in an effort to reduce the state’s long-term real estate costs that will culminate in the long-awaited sale of the James R. Thompson Center downtown.

Parents and players protested Saturday outside a state building in Chicago, pleading with Gov. J.B. Pritzker to lift his fall ban on some popular high school sports. Players in jerseys and varsity jackets chanted, “Let us play!” outside the Thompson Center. “It’s our way of escape,” said Myles Mooyoung, a senior football player at Kenwood Academy High School in...

Vigils took place across several states Thursday to demand that safeguards be put in place to prevent more future deaths. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.

A total of 3,433 candles were lit outside Chicago’s Thompson Center Thursday — one candle for each coronavirus-related death at an Illinois nursing home. The vigil, which was organized by the Service Employees International Union, the union representing nursing home workers, was an effort to demand that safeguards be put in place to prevent more future deaths. The 3,433 lives…

The widow of fallen Chicago Police Cmdr. Paul Bauer filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Wisconsin against online gun site that faciliatated the sale of the gun utilized to kill her husband.

Illinois officials are inching closer to selling a downtown Chicago building that houses state government offices, announcing the selection Thursday of a project manager to oversee the sale.

After years of pushing a Las Vegas-style casino to boost tourism and much-needed revenue, Chicago’s leaders seemingly hit the jackpot when Illinois lawmakers approved one as part of a massive gambling expansion.