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Successful Community Engagement Event: Over 400 Properties Surveyed in Bronzeville

With intentions to be more proactive in advocating for historic places in Bronzeville, approximately 35 volunteers helped survey 400 properties along and around the...

PRINT: Chicago’s 10 Most Senseless Demolitions, Mapped; From groundbreaking early skyscrapers to sprawling rail terminals in Curbed Chicago

"For a city that prides itself on its architectural legacy, Chicago has a mixed track record when it comes to saving its significant buildings....

Chicago Brauhaus Could Return As Part Of DANK Haus If It Meets $50,000 Fundraising Goal

"The storied Chicago Brauhaus could make a return in Lincoln Square."Brauhaus closed its location at 4732 N. Lincoln Ave. in December 2017 — but...

PETITION: Save the Chicago Town & Tennis Club/Unity Church!

Preservation Chicago recognizes the need for Misericordia’s extraordinary housing and services. We strongly support this important work, and we believe it is possible to...

WATCH: Chicago Jazz Artists Look for Ways to Cope with COVID-19 on Chicago Tonight

"The city of Chicago named 2020 the Year of Chicago Music, and this week was supposed to be Cabaret Week."Chicago Tonight visited a few...

READ: High Fidelity Turns 20, and the Chicago It Imagined Is Gone; A writer reflects on the vanished city the movie immortalized in Chicago...

"It would be an exaggeration to say watching High Fidelity persuaded me to move to Chicago nearly two decades ago, but it didn’t hurt....

WBEZ: What’s That Building? The Krause Music Store on WBEZ Chicago

"Tucked away on a busy section of Lincoln Avenue sits a remarkable building that has made people stop and stare since 1922."Today, it’s up...

WATCH: What’s Happening to Chicago’s Neon Signs? on WGN 9 Chicago

"Dylan Thomas once wrote: 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.' He wasn't talking about Chicago, but he could have been when it...

WATCH: You Paid For It: Scaffolding In Front Of Landmark City-Owned Building In West Town Has Been There Since 2015 on CBS Chicago 2...

"It’s ugly, it’s been there for years, and you paid for it. The 'it' in question is construction scaffolding that surrounds the old Goldblatt’s...

WIN: West Pullman Frank Lloyd Wright House Is Sold

"In West Pullman, an architecturally unusual—but characteristically slow-to-sell home—designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is finally under contract to sell after spending three years on...