April 2023 Newsletter
THREATENED: Happy Wash Terra Cotta Building To Be Demolished for New Development
"The city has signed off on a developer’s plan to replace a Wilson Avenue retail building with an apartment complex, the third time a...
WIN: Our Lady of Victory Church Parishioners Challenge Closure in Vatican Court and Win! (Chicago 7 2021)
"Our Lady of Victory, located at 5212 W. Agatite Ave, is the oldest Catholic parish on the Northwest Side, said Susanna Ernst, the president...
WIN: Six-Corner Sears Adaptive Reuse Nearing Completion (Chicago 7 2016)
"The Sears department store at 4712 W Irving Park Road in Portage Park continues to undergo a significant transformation, as the $90 million, six-story...
WIN: Former Goldblatt Brothers Building Invest South/West Adaptive Reuse to Anchor Back-of-the-Yards Revitalization at 47th and Ashland
"A project with affordable housing, space for local businesses and a federally qualified health care center got a funding boost from the City Council...
THREATENED: 6740 S. South Shore Drive Begins 90-Day Demolition Delay
"A Mediterranean house in South Shore has survived two developers’ demolition plans in recent decades" but may not survive this third attempt."In 2007, a...
THREATENED: Dispute Over Historic Tours at Edgar Miller Designed Glasner Studio Results in Legal Actions
"Edgar Miller’s Kogen-Miller Studios is one of Chicago’s most idiosyncratic and astonishing architectural sites. Lately, though, it has been ensnared in a disagreement that...
WIN: Ongoing Efforts to Survey and Save Chicago’s Workers Cottages
Chicago’s vernacular architecture faces a threat that collectively has an impact at least as significant as losing a grand ballroom or downtown building.Workers cottages...
WIN: Edgar Miller ‘Animal Court’ Sculptures to Finally Be Restored and Reinstalled at National Public Housing Museum
"The prevailing image of Chicago public housing is that of blocks of big, grim brick-and-concrete towers. It didn’t start out that way, though."The first...
THREATENED: Demolition Threat for Wheatland Building at 4435 S. Western Blvd
"For real estate developers and investors around Chicago, the best-laid plans often involve warehouses."It is a humble use and not without controversy, but the...
WIN: Restoration of 1954 W. North Avenue Includes the Reconstruction of the Corner Turret Lost in the 1960s
"Construction continues on the mixed-use development at 1954-1956 W North Avenue in the heart of Wicker Park. Located at the heart of the neighborhood...