Most North American buildings with corridors and two stairs have dozens of units and get big and long to justify the costs. Paris and Vienna look the way they do because you can build this way.

Developer Marty Paris has given up the apartment building "The Rhone" at 146 West Erie Street in Chicago. Paris signed a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure with Republic Bank of Chicago.

CHICAGO – Investigators are trying to figure out what caused a massive fire that destroyed an apartment building in the city’s North Park neighborhood. The blaze started around 4 p.m. Thursday ...