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FEATURE: Artist Lynn Basa to Create Art Installation to Honor the Chicago Workers Cottage
The frequent target of “wreck and replace” developers looking to cash in on Chicago’s strong housing market, the humble Chicago workers cottage will be...
Docomomo US Calls for Nominations for 2020 Modernism in America Awards Due May 29, 2020
Nominate a project that inspires for the 2020 Modernism in America Awards. Now in its seventh year, the Awards celebrate the documentation, preservation and...
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...
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...
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...
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...