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WIN: Initial Indicators from the “Google Effect” Confirm Substantial Benefits to the Loop (Chicago 7 2016, 2018, 2019 & 2020)
by “When Google opens its new Midwest headquarters at the James R. Thompson Center late next year, brokers and developers say it could kick...
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WIN: City Council Approves Landmark Designation and Renovation of Up Top Building at Altgeld Gardens (Chicago 7 2017 & 2022)
POTENTIAL WIN: Chicago Plan Commission Approves By The Hand Club For Kids’ Renovation of Altgeld Gardens’ Historic “Up Top” Building, Home to the Birthplace...
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WIN: Commission on Chicago Landmarks Grants Final Landmark Recommendation to Edgewater’s Bryn Mawr Historic District and Denies Demolition Permit for Contributing Building at 1114...
“A key city commission formally recommended an Edgewater historic district become a Chicago landmark while also denying a demolition permit in the district that...
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WIN: City Council Designates Holabird & Root’s 1929 Chicago Daily News Building at 2 N. Riverside Plaza a Chicago Landmark (Chicago 7...
“Last week, the City Council designated the Art Deco skyscraper at 2 N. Riverside Plaza as an official Chicago landmark.“‘It’s a building that was...
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WIN: Ongoing Media Coverage Generates Awareness Regarding the Challenge and Vision of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Chicago 7 2026)
“Just over one year since the world greeted a new pope, a pope born in America’s heartland, Chicago. Since the elevation of Pope Leo...
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WIN: Austin Coming Together Acquires Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1903 J.J. Walser House and Launches a Restoration Campaign (Chicago 7 2025)
“In the Austin community on Chicago’s West Side sits the J.J. Walser House, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1903. A...
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POTENTIAL WIN: Vote Recommends Multiple-Property National Register Designation for Chicago’s Thousands of Historic Courtyard Apartment Buildings
"Chicago's entire class of vintage residential courtyard buildings — totaling in the thousands — could be headed for the National Register of Historic Places...
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WIN: Chicago City Council Approves Adaptive Reuse of David Fireproof Storage Warehouse at 3240 W. Lawrence in Albany Park
"The Chicago City Council has approved a mixed-use development at 3240 W. Lawrence in Albany Park. Planned by APZ Holdings LLC, the project site...
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WIN: After Decades of Delays, Developers Secure $3 Million City Grant to Adaptively Reuse Grace’s Furniture Building
""Plans to redevelop the building at 2616-18 N. Milwaukee Ave. into a mixed-use project with Logan Square Athletic Club as its anchor tenant is...
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POTENTIAL WIN: Dwight Perkins-Designed James H. Bowen High School at 2710 E. 89th Street Recommended for National Register of Historic Places
"Carl Schurz High School is an architectural marvel: An absolute Prairie School beauty at Milwaukee Avenue and Addison Street that rightfully earned city landmark...