Chicago Real Estate/ Real Estate PE Scene

This forum has been helpful on rare occasion, so figured I would ask on the off-chance someone on this forum could provide some color:

As the title suggests, curious about the landscape in general and who the major real estate PE players are in Chicago. Both on the debt side and equity side. 

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