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Major development planned for Chicago's South Side

As many as 20,000 modular homes, a plant to build them and a new "lakefront city" around it could rise on the site of what Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls Chicago's "industrial past": the old U.S. Steel South Works plant.

After a lengthy bid process and months of negotiations, Emanuel and Emerald Living on Tuesday announced a "purchase and sale agreement" that will allow the "green tech development company" to acquire the 440-acre lakefront site from U.S. Steel.

That triggers a five-month window for developers to conduct an "environmental review' of the massive site and close on the sale.

For more, check chicago.suntimes.com.

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