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Proposed Chicago office building would be 6-story all-wood tower

CHICAGO - A former lumberyard on Chicago's North Side could soon become home to a type of construction not seen in Chicago since the 1800s: a wood-structured office building.

Real estate developer Hines said it plans to build a six-story, 270,000-square-foot office building that would become the largest mass timber structure built in the United States in the modern construction era.

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