ST. CHARLES, IL-A Pennsylvania investor acquires the 20,700-sf shopping center in this far west suburb from a Chicago developer for $7.25 million. Built last year, East Gate Commons is 100% leased with Chipotlé and Mattress Giant as anchors.

JOLIET, IL-Joliet Tower Partnership plans to build 120 to 150 units as well as ground-floor retail space on a city-owned site at Jefferson and Scott streets. It would be the tallest building in this river city about 40 miles southwest of Chicago.

WESTCHESTER, IL-Equity Office Properties Trust's five-building, 1.1-million-sf asset is struggling with vacancy around 25%, but lures Loyola University Physicians Foundation to the property along Cermak Road.

ROCHELLE, IL-The 362-acre industrial development near Interstates 39 and 80 gets its first tenant in the maker of die-cast replicas of cars and trucks. The Oak Brook-based REIT can build up to 5.2 million sf here.

OAK LAWN, IL-The Green Oaks Shopping Center at a busy intersection in this southwest suburb is 100% leased and has been owned by the same family that built it 47 years ago.

ELGIN, IL-Tower Square on the River would add 203 multifamily units and retail space on the opposite corner from the NBD Tower, south of Chicago Avenue along the Fox River.

CHICAGO-As senior managing member of Greenwood Group, LLC, former Prime Group Realty Trust chief financial officer Louis G. Conforti will help decide how to deploy $160 million in "cash-flow challenged" real estate companies.

CHICAGO-The New York-based investment banking firm adds 7,602 sf on the 24th through 26th floor at Houston-based Hines Interests' 1.4-million-sf Three First National Plaza.