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After apartments flood downtown Chicago, building boom reaches suburbs

CHICAGO - Signs of an apartment boom are all over downtown Chicago, where construction cranes and the beginnings of towers dominate the skyline.

It's less visible and more spread out, but there's an apartment construction spree happening in Chicago's suburbs too.

Rental construction reached its highest level in more than a decade last year in the Chicago suburbs, and 2018 is shaping up as another busy year. More than 4,200 units were completed in 2017, and about 3,900 more units are projected for this year, according to data from Marcus

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