NAPERVILLE, IL-The western end of the East-West Corridor, which went from boom to bust along with the fortunes of the dotcom and tech industries, leads the suburban submarkets with a 21.3% vacancy rate.

CHICAGO-The plan commission recommends allowing only 800 hotel rooms in a River East area, making development unfeasible. This is half the total St. Louis-based HBE Corp. was told it could build when it paid $46 million for dirt.

CHICAGO-Just off the emerging Roosevelt Road retail corridor, a site covering parts of two city blocks could see a new Walmart built there to serve an area that has seen major residential redevelopment.

CHICAGO-Environmental remediation is required at the 26.3-acre site at 7101 S. Cicero Ave., where American Trans Air plans to build a $125-million training facility. That results in the sales price for the land being cut 11% to $13.8 million.

SCHAUMBURG, IL-Tenants have choices throughout the suburbs, but no more so than here, where the largest suburban submarket's vacancy rate soars past 20% to begin 2002. It could reach 25% here and throughout the suburbs, experts say.

CHICAGO-The economic redevelopment tool may end up costing the city's embattled school system, whose improvement is considered a key to continued revitalization, much needed property tax revenue. The move would make tax increment financing counterproductive.

CHICAGO-Hotels could be in, while multifamily rental properties, especially the higher-end and luxury product, may be out in 2002, predicts Prudential Real Estate Investors vice president of acquisitions Collete English Dixon at Grubb & Ellis' 2002 real estate forecast.

CHICAGO-It's early, but the biggest Downtown office lease so far this year is JPMorgan Chase Bank's deal for 86,000 sf at the AT&T Corporate Center/USG Building at 227 W. Monroe St., where asking rates start at $30 per sf net.