Steel continues to dominate the Bally’s Casino construction site in River West, as crews from the Chicago Community Builders Collective continue to progress. In the six weeks or so since our last visit, the iron framework has risen from a single level to the seventh story at the north end of the site.
There was activity on the site Sunday the 16th, both human and Manitowoc red beast. It seems redundant to remind you that the deadline for opening the casino is December 2026, but that certainly seems to have created an urgency factor. And earlier delays in construction during demolitions, one from debris falling in the river and one from <checks notes> utilizing the wrong dumpster provider, made that completion date feel even more urgent.
