EVANSTON, IL-A smaller version of the retailer's State Street store has become 54 condos. The Evanston Galleria preserves details of the art deco building, including floor directors and trademark Marshall Field's clock.

CHICAGO-The industrial market, booming in some areas of the city, is expected to get even better in the next few years as capital that has helped propel East and West Coast markets discovers the Midwest is a land of opportunity.

ROLLING MEADOWS, IL-A Loews Cineplex Theater sold here for $3 million already divided for nine screens made it ideal for a partnership that plans to convert the moviehouse into a banquet facility.

CHICAGO-With questions of an overbuilt office market beginning to surface as well as an exodus of some dotcom failures from leased space, lenders will be looking at the viability of a building's future cash flow, says Karen Case, group senior vice president for LaSalle Bank's commercial real estate department.

DOWNERS GROVE, IL-Mortgages totaling $6.6 million from St. Francis Bank is arranged by Chicago-based Aries Capital for the properties located at 3000 and 3010 Finley Road in this western suburb.

CHICAGO-J. Paul Beitler of Douglas Elliman-Beitler, Inc. tells about 300 real estate professionals here that 2001 is the year to "buy something and leverage the daylights out of it." But his message may not be getting through to the public.

WAUKEGAN-Martin Tuohy's University Station plan would be a "smart growth," self-contained community replacing a moribund shopping center here with new retail, office, educational, entertainment and condominium uses.

AURORA,IL-The opening of a 116,000-sf Home Depot store here Thursday is the first building to open in the Orchard Road Corridor. Also coming is the city's second Meijer food store, a Hampton Inn & Suites and Marriott Courtyard.