ADVOCACY
WIN: Approximately 33k Petition Signatures and Round-the-Clock Advocacy Effort Defeats Proposed House Museum Ban Ordinance
THANK YOU to the nearly 33 thousand individuals who signed the petition to reject the proposed House Museum Ban ordinance. This petition by Preservation Chicago, our...
WTTW Chicago: Ask Geoffrey – Chicago’s Old Passenger Rail Stations
"Chicago’s old passenger railroad stations for decades acted as the city’s front door, where people from all over the country arrived seeking out a...
WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? The Crumbling Comfort Station In Jackson Park (Chicago 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021)
"When WBEZ listener Kevin Borgia bikes along the Lakefront Trail, he regularly passes a 'seemingly abandoned building in Jackson Park.'"'It is kind of a...
WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? The Salvation Army Building (Chicago 7 2021)
"One of Chicago’s most intriguing buildings from the 1940s sits on an isolated patch in the West Loop, mostly hidden from view by elevated...
Chicago Crusader Investigative Report: “Important to Black history, they are unprotected and a new owner can demolish them anytime without any opposition”
"Alderman Sophia King (4th Ward) had a problem in her ward in 2017. Developers were jockeying for some fresh real estate to build skyscrapers...
The Most Endangered Building in Chicago [Thompson Center]: a Video by Stewart Hicks (Chicago 7 2016, 2018, 2019 & 2020)
"In this video, we visit Chicago's most endangered building--the Thompson Center--and discuss issues related to its preservation and impending demolition.""Perhaps no building in Chicago...
Block Club Chicago: Bishop Louis Henry Ford Saved the Henry B. Clarke House in the 1940s
"Chicagoans familiar with the local highway system have undoubtedly heard of the Bishop Ford Freeway, a stretch of Interstate 94 from Interstate 57 to...
CityLab: How a Plan to Save Buildings Fell Apart (Chicago 7 2006)
"In 2018, Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development felt that they had a progressive plan to preserve one of the city’s most rapidly gentrifying...
Chicago Reader: Altgeld Gardens. Is this library politics? (Chicago 7 2017)
"Drive south on the Bishop Ford Expressway to Altgeld Gardens and you'll pass plenty of reminders you're in a landscape not meant for inquisitive...