Neighborhood
LOSS: Mercy Home Demolishes Beautiful Historic Building at 221 S. Racine for a Vacant Lot
Mercy Home is in the process of demolishing the building at 221-225 S. Racine.Despite dating from 1892 and having a highly intact, beautiful limestone...
THREATENED: Clock Ticking for Chicago Town and Tennis Club! (Chicago 7 2020)
Preservation Chicago has been working with urgency to find a win-win solution for Chicago Town and Tennis Club. The 90-day demolition delay extension provides slightly...
THREATENED: Hollenbach Building to be Demolished for New Construction
"The Hollenbach Building is a building at 808 W. Lake Street in Chicago's Fulton Market District, which was designed by Worthmann & Steinbach and...
PRINT: Documenting the Past: A look at some of Chicago’s disappearing buildings in South Side Weekly
"It’s fun to shoot old Chicago. I like documenting and seeing the hidden history. So much will be forgotten if we do not photograph...
PRINT: A Chicago Couple Restores a Spacious Gothic Revival, Inside and Out In Preservation Magazine
"Jay Dandy: We bought the house in June of 2002 and moved in that November. We had been living in a big, Victorian-era house,...
PRINT: Home is Where the Art Deco Is: Modernist Design Around the Corner from the Chicago Art Deco Society’s Newsletter
"When it comes to Art Deco architecture, especially in the Midwest, one tends to think of the skyscraping commercial edifices and the grand WPA...
PRINT: Serhii Chrucky Shoots the James R. Thompson Center for Preservation Chicago
"This structure, the James R. Thompson Center, isn’t even 40 years old. Yet some of Chicago’s elected officials want what was formerly known as...
PRINT: City Council Unanimously Bans Horse-Drawn Carriages Starting Jan. 1
"The distinctive sound of hooves clip-clopping along downtown streets will soon become a relic of a bygone era."The Chicago City Council on Friday approved...
WATCH: A Virtual Tour of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in the Humboldt Park Stables
"This year marks 25 years since the flag sculptures were installed above Division Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood."In the nearby park, another landmark...
WATCH: Ask Geoffrey – The Story Behind the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium on WTTW Chicago
"A one time tree nursery became a bucolic place of rest and recovery for tuberculosis patients on Chicago’s North Side. Geoffrey Baer shares this...