Empty lots and half-finished buildings across the city sit idle while people wait for loans to come through. The financial bottleneck has created a mess of incomplete projects and lines of unemployed construction workers. And now the city that witnessed one of the country’s biggest real estate booms is trying to figure out what to do with the land. Chicago magazine reporter writes the Deal Estate column and he has been keeping an eye on these deferred development dreams.

Music Button:  Ulrich Schnauss, “Here Today Gone Tomorrow”, from the CD Goodbye, (Domino)