August 2020 Newsletter
Biketropolis and Arcadia Publishing Announce Chicago’s Mansions Self-Guided Cycling Tour – North Side Edition
"Biketropolis and Arcadia Publishing have collaborated to bring you Chicago's Mansions Self-Guided Cycling Tour - North Side Edition. Author John Graf did a fantastic...
Chicago Art Deco Society presents Monuments of Art Deco: Touring the Modern Argentinian Designs of Francisco Salamone
"Join Chicago Art Deco Society for the first fall virtual lecture, on the works of Francisco Salamone. CADS will be kicking off our semester...
What would you do if you were training for the Chicago marathon and it was cancelled due to COVID-19? Introducing Chicago’s Historic Preservation Marathon!
What would you do if you were training for the Chicago marathon and it was cancelled due to COVID-19?For Preservation Chicago’s Director of Community...
Chicago Tribune Humor Column: The giant green frog from Chicago’s Rainforest Cafe must be preserved. Maybe it can help fight coronavirus?
"Chicago is on the brink of losing a historic landmark: The giant green frog that for years has stood like a silent amphibian sentry...
Chicago Magazine: Walking Chicago With Robert Loerzel. A new book offers guides to 35 urban trails around the city.
"The timing of Robert Loerzel’s Walking Chicago — his revamp of Ryan Ver Berkmoes’s 2008 book of the same name — couldn’t be better....
Crain’s Chicago: New Book Explores Chicago’s Best Modernist Homes, ‘Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975’
"Michelangelo Sabatino says he understands why midcentury modern homes are so hot right now. With their informal layouts and big windows framing views of...
Chicago Reader: Chicago at the turn of the century through the eyes of Rudolph F. Michaelis
"It’s a pity that Rudolph F. Michaelis never got his due as an artist during his time in Chicago. Born in Marion County, Missouri,...
Chicago Tribune: Harry Caray’s is haunted by Chicago’s past; Landmark building was a mobster’s hideout, has secret rooms and sits on Chicago’s block No....
"It is tough all over but Grant DePorter, the CEO of Harry Caray’s Restaurant Group, oversees the operation of seven restaurants. On this day...
Anna Baird: Early 20th Century Developer and Builder of High-Grade Apartments in Chicago
"In honor of the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, Landmarks Illinois has launched “Women Who Built Illinois,”...