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Driehaus Museum Presents Capturing Louis Sullivan: What Richard Nickel Saw EXTENDED to May 21, 2023
"Richard Nickel (1928-1972) was a Polish-American architectural photographer and preservationist. Nickel first encountered the work of Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) as a student, when photographing...
Don’t Miss Preservation Chicago’s 2023 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Announcement High Noon on Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Preservation Chicago's 2023 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Announcement and Presentation
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
High Noon, 12:00 pm
Virtually via Zoom and in-person at the Chicago Architecture...
THREATENED: After 23 Year Advocacy Effort, Preliminary Chicago Landmark Status for Promontory Point Depends on Park District’s Consent (Chicago 7 2022)
"WRITE A LETTER to the Chicago Park District Board to vote "YES" to Landmarking Promontory Point! Use this letter (or customize it) to urge...
THREATENED: Despite Strong Community Opposition, Demolition Delay Expiring for Historic Three-Flat at 2240 N. Burling
"Judy Blatherwick and her family put in decades of work restoring their graceful, Italianate wood-frame home in Lincoln Park, but after selling the nearly...
WIN: Preliminary Landmark Status Protects Both Interior and Exterior of Innovative 1970s Netsch Home
"The Old Town home that innovative 20th-century architect Walter Netsch designed with a bold, unconventional floor plan of multiple levels and bands of skylights...
WIN: After Seven Year Effort, Greater Union Baptist Church Receives Final Chicago Landmark Recommendation
"A city panel will vote Thursday on whether to grant preliminary landmark status to a historic West Side church — a move that’s good...
WIN: Bronzeville Designated a National Heritage Area
"Congress has sent President Joe Biden a bill to sign establishing Chicago’s historic Bronzeville community as a National Heritage Area."The Senate unanimously approved the...
THREATENED: Landmarked Congress Theater Languishes Due to Rising Construction Prices and Labor Dispute
Closed for a decade, the Congress Theater is a shell of the gleaming movie palace and music venue it once was."Water is seeping into...
POTENTIAL WIN: City RFP Generates Three Proposals for Vacant CMD Warehouse (Chicago 7 2020)
"Make a list of the city’s most historically important places and the buildings of the old Central Manufacturing District in the McKinley Park neighborhood...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Illinois Needs Better Rules for Selling Off Unneeded Land
"Illinois has an inadequate process for selling off land it no longer needs. It ought to do better."The glaring shortcoming was demonstrated when the...