LaTonya Ellis Featured in RE Journals: "Chicago: Major Player, Second City or a Mix of Both?"

Ice Miller Real Estate practice group director LaTonya Ellis was featured in the RE Journals article, "Chicago: Major Player, Second City or a Mix of Both?"

The article included:

LaTonya Ellis asked the big question during this month’s 18th annual Commercial Real Estate Forecast Conference: Is Chicago, the Midwest’s biggest city, still a major player in the commercial real estate world? Or does the city instead live up to its nickname as a second city, a lesser cog in the world of investment and development?

The answer that Ellis received? It was complicated, with a panel of CRE experts pointing out both the strengths of the city and the challenges that it faces.

Ellis, practice group director for real estate and municipal finance with the Chicago office of law firm Ice Miller, moderated the talk during the big forecast conference held Jan. 9 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. She led its participants through discussions ranging from Chicago’s powerful infrastructure to the burden the state faces with pension payments to the specter of rising taxes.

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