As the year comes to a close many publications begin rounding up the biggest stories of the year.
Crain's took a stab this week at naming 2015's biggest real estate deals. Their list includes:
1. The Willis Tower, purchased by the Blackstone Group in June for $1.3 billion, the highest price ever paid for a U.S. office building outside of New York.
2. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art was approved to be built on lakefront land south of Soldier Field that is currently a surface parking lot. Construction on the $400 million project is expected to begin in the Spring.
3. OneEleven, the residential apartment tower at 111 W. Wacker was purchased for $328 million by Chicago real estate firm Heitman. The $651,000-per-unit price was the highest ever paid for a Chicago apartment tower.
4. Headquarters moving to downtown Chicago: Crain's named ConAgra's move from Omaha, Nebraska, Kraft-Heinz and Motorola Solutions.
5. The Gold Coast's Waldorf-Astoria hotel was sold by billionaire investor Sam Zell for $111.9 million or $592,000 per room, another Chicago record.
Read it all here.