Caroline Domagalski started her career working at the City of Chicago as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Commercial and Policy Litigation Division. There, she counseled City officials and defended the City in complex litigation, including litigation involving the First Amendment, employment discrimination, Section 1983 civil rights, municipal contracts, and land use and zoning.

Ms. Domagalski subsequently spent a number of years working for the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development as a Project Coordinator. Ms. Domagalski initially coordinated the Administration's key economic development projects in neighborhoods stretching along the south lakefront from the Hyde Park neighborhood to 95th Street and as far west as the Dan Ryan Expressway. She coordinated the establishment of Tax Increment Finance districts, sale and acquisition of property within TIF districts, outreach to community organizations and zoning policy matters.

As the Central Loop Project Coordinator for the Department of Planning and Development, Ms. Domagalski directed and negotiated City participation in numerous, substantial redevelopment projects downtown. Ms. Domagalski played a key role in the sale and redevelopment of the former Woolworth's department store at State and Washington Streets into a mixed-use development with three floors of retail space and 105 condominium apartments; the redevelopment of the landmark Mather Building at 75 E. Wacker Drive into an apartment hotel; the sale and redevelopment of the former Walgreen's retail store at the corner of State and Randolph Streets into a mixed use development with retail uses and condominium apartments; and the redevelopment of the landmark former Carson Pirie Scott Building into a mixed office retail complex.

At present, Ms. Domagalski concentrates her practice in the areas of land use, real estate development, and municipal law in the City of Chicago and surrounding municipalities. She has extensive experience representing clients in complex residential and commercial zoning matters in throughout the City and before the Chicago Plan Commission, the Zoning Board of Appeals, the Chicago Commission on Landmarks, the Chicago Community Development Commission, the City Council Committee on Zoning and numerous City Departments. She guides projects through the maze of reviews and approvals required for land use entitlements and she counsels clients on community relations issues necessary to secure development rights and privileges.

Representative Transactions:

• Obtained approvals for a planned development consisting of five residential high-rise towers each thirty stories tall or more, totaling nearly 1700 residential units in Chicago's River West neighborhood.
  
• Obtained approvals for a planned development consisting of three residential high-rise towers totaling 1000 residential units in the Chicago's South Loop.
  
• Obtained planned development approval for the redevelopment of a landmark industrial building on Chicago's northwest side into a 175 unit condominium building and negotiated $8.5 million in Tax Increment Finance assistance from the City of Chicago.

Admissions

• Illinois

Memberships

• Chicago Bar Association
• Chicago Inn of Court
• Women in Planning and Development

Education

• J.D., DePaul College of Law, 1996.
• B.A., University of Michigan, 1993.