Inside the Art Deco Chicago Motor Club: Has it finally Found a Future?

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 Crain's Alby Gallun is reporting this afternoon that the long-empty 1928 Chicago Motor Club Building, designed by Holabird and Root, has been sold to MB Real Estate Services for about $9.5 million.  That's what the previous owner, Aries Capital LLC, paid for the property in a 2011 auction, but they had already made an additional $4.5 million selling off a 4,700 square-foot parcel next to the building.  Read more and see our photo essay after the break . . .