“A demolition permit has been issued to make way for a proposed mixed-use development at 2800 N. Sheridan. Planned by Chicago Development Partners and Continuum Capital, the project site is located at the northwest corner of W. Diversey Pkwy and N. Sheridan Rd. Designed by Antunovich Associates, the mixed-use development is proposed to take shape as a 28-story structure with 355 units.
“In addition, the development team has committed to preserving the two historic Egon Weiner ‘Brotherhood’ sculptures currently located on the site. They will either keep the sculptures on site as part of the new development, or partner with the Chicago Park District or another organization to place them on display elsewhere in the city.
“To allow for the scope of the project, the developers are seeking to rezone the site to B3-5. The site is currently part of a Planned Development and will likely need its own new Planned Development or amend the existing one to move forward. The proposal will require aldermanic approval from 44th Ward Alderman Lawson as well as city approvals from the Chicago Plan Commission, Committee on Zoning, and City Council.” (Kugler, Urbanize Chicago, 7/13/26)
“Set to become the first new tower in the area in recent years, the team plans to relocate an existing sculpture on-site to the UFCW offices in the Near West Side. Per the latest alderman presentation, the team also plans to utilize the existing zoning rights of the adjacent Elks Memorial, providing additional funds for the memorial’s restoration.
“The project is now seeking approval from the alderman ahead of going to the city, with a phased demolition of the existing site set to take place from August 3 to October 19.” (Achong, Chicago YIMBY, 7/16/26)
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America Building is a Preservation Chicago 2026 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Building as part of the Chicago Labor Union Hall category. Built in 1951 to the designs of Everett F. Quinn & Associates, with a later rehabilitation by Loebl Schlossman & Hackl, the building at 2800 N. Sheridan Road is a significant work of Chicago mid-century modern architecture and one of the most important surviving labor union headquarters in the city. It occupies a prominent corner site at Sheridan Road and Diversey Parkway, facing Lincoln Park and Lake Michigan, and it has anchored that corner for seventy-five years.
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America was among the most consequential unions in American labor history, and its story is inseparable from Chicago’s. The union organized the stockyards and packinghouses that made Chicago the hog butcher for the world, and it did so across racial lines at a time when few unions did. The Meat Cutters later merged with the Retail Clerks International Union to form the United Food and Commercial Workers. A headquarters building of this significance, in this city, is not a generic mid-century office building.
Chicago’s labor union halls are a category of building that Preservation Chicago has identified as broadly at risk. These buildings tell the story of how working people in this city organized, bargained, and built the middle class. They are rarely landmarked, rarely surveyed with the attention given to commercial and residential architecture, and they are disappearing steadily. The loss of 2800 N. Sheridan would be a significant subtraction from that already thin record.
We acknowledge that the development team has committed to preserving the two Egon Weiner “Brotherhood” sculptures. Weiner, the Austrian-born sculptor who fled the Nazi annexation of Austria and taught for decades at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, created works of real distinction, and these sculptures are meaningful. Preserving them is the right thing to do. But sculptures relocated to a union office on the Near West Side are not a substitute for the building they were made for. Public art loses much of its meaning when severed from its site.
Preservation Chicago urges the development team, 44th Ward Ald. Bennett Lawson, and the City of Chicago to consider an alternative that incorporates the historic building into the new construction. The new construction still requires a zoning change, a Planned Development, and approvals from the Chicago Plan Commission, the Committee on Zoning, and City Council. The demolition permit has been issued, but the tower has not been approved. There is still time for decision-makers to encourage a better outcome.
Read the full story at Urbanize Chicago and Chicago YIMBY
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