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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...
600 N. Pine Avenue, Austin – 90-Day Demolition Delay List
Address: 600 N. Pine Avenue, Austin
#100863125
Date Received: 02/20/2020
Ward: 37th Ward Alderman Emma Mitts
Applicant: Sciortino Group, Inc.
Owner: City of Chicago
Permit Description: Demolition of a 2-story residential...
1733 N. Mohawk Street, Old Town – 90-Day Demolition Delay List
Address: 1733 N. Mohawk Street, Old Town
#100863643
Date Received: 02/20/2020
Ward: 43rd Ward Alderman Michele Smith
Applicant: Platinum Homes Development
Owner: Gisela E. Heinecken
Permit Description: Demolition and removal of a...
11314 S. Michigan Avenue (Roseland’s South Michigan Avenue District – 90-Day Demolition Delay List
Address: 11314 S. Michigan Avenue (Roseland's South Michigan Avenue District, a Chicago Most Endangered 7 2020)
#100863125
Date Received: 02/18/2020
Ward: 9th Ward Alderman Anthony Beale
Applicant: Alliance Demolition and Excavation Services, Inc.
Owner: City...
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...
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...