April 2021 Month-in-Review Newsletter

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Table of Contents

PETITIONS

• THREATENED: Thompson Center
• THREATENED: Lakeview State Bank
• PARTIAL WIN: Proposed The Obsidian Collection House Museum
• PARTIAL WIN: Lake Street Schlitz Tied House / La Luce
• THREATENED: Chicago Union Station Power House

ADVOCACY

1. THREATENED: Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Thompson Center
2. THREATENED: Jackson Park OPC Construction and New Lawsuit
3. WIN: Chicago Cultural Center GAR Room and Dome Restoration
4. WIN: IIT Armour Institute Main Hall
5. WIN: St. Boniface Church
6. POTENTIAL WINS: Pioneer Bank and Laramie State Bank
7. WIN: Jefferson Park Fire Station
8. WIN: Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative
9. WIN: Pullman Rowhouses
10. THREATENED: 25 Catholic Parishes Organize to Protest Closures
11. THREATENED: Chicago Loop Synagogue
12. WIN: Minnekirken Adopt-a-Landmark Grant
13. WIN: Seminary Avenue Victorian House
14. WIN: Historic Home Will Be Restored After Fire
15. WIN: Decorative Terra Cotta Façade Saved
16. LOSS: Blessed Sacrament Catholic School Demolished
17. IN MEMORIAM: Richard H. Driehaus; Philanthropist and Preservationist
18. THREATENED: 90-Day Demolition Delay Watch List
19. LOSS: Spotlight on Demolition (78 demolitions in April 2021)

PRESERVATION IN THE NEWS

• PRINT: Chicago Tribune Editorial: Defending the Lakefront for Centuries of Chicagoans
• Newcity Editor’s Letter: The Thompson Center
• Chicago Reader: Altgeld Gardens. Is this library politics?
• Block Club Chicago: Bishop Louis Henry Ford Saved the Henry B. Clarke House in the 1940s
• CityLab: How a Plan to Save Buildings Fell Apart

EVENTS & HAPPENINGS

• Preservation Chicago Welcomes Max Chavez as Director of Research and Special Project
• Preservation Futures Seeks to Elevate the Social and Cultural History Embedded in Places and Spaces
• The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s Way Out And About Wright 2021 May 14-16, 2021
• Docomomo US National Symposium 2021 Chicago: Crossroads of Modern America May 25-28, 2021
• Vivian Maier: In Color at the Chicago History Museum

FILM

• The Most Endangered Building in Chicago [Thompson Center]: A Video by Stewart Hicks
• Roseland’s South Michigan Avenue Commercial District: “The Avenue’s” Past, Present and Future
• Preservation Chicago Virtual Tour of the Arlington Deming Historic District

CHICAGO 7 MOST ENDANGERED

• Chicago 7 Video Overview
• Chicago 7 2021 Full Presentation, February 24, 2021
• Press and Media Coverage

1. The Chicago Lakefront
2. Phyllis Wheatley Home
3. Cornell Store & Flats Chicago
4. South Chicago Masonic Temple
5. West Loop Industrial Lofts
6. Central Manufacturing District – Original East District
7. Roman Catholic Churches

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