August 2022 Newsletter

Wins

WIN: Maxim’s to Reopen as the Astor Club in Late 2022

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"On a recent sunny morning, Goudy Square, the small park in the heart of the Gold Coast at Astor and Goethe Streets, was alive...
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WIN: ‘Authenticity is Guiding Principle’ for Adaptive Reuse of Peabody Elementary School into Residential Building (Chicago 7 2015)

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"There used to be a teacher’s desk in each classroom at the old Elizabeth Peabody public school building on Augusta Boulevard in Noble Square....
Editorial/Op-Ed

SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Take the Tiger Woods South Side Golf Course Off the Table (Chicago 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021)

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"It’s time to give up on the moribund plan for a professional-caliber South Side golf course, stuff it into the golf bag along with...
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WIN: Henry B. Clarke House / Bishop Ford House to Begin $1 Million Renovation

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"Bishop Louis Henry Ford, the influential Black pastor who saved a noteworthy 1830s house from ruin and rehabbed it over the course of decades,...
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WIN: Muddy Waters MOJO Museum Momentum Finally Overcomes Aldermanic Delays with Approval to Buy Adjacent Vacant Lot

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"The Muddy Waters MOJO Museum could get a new garden to host outdoor performances — if the city allows the owner to buy an...
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WIN: Francis Scott Key Public School in Austin Reopens as The Field School (Chicago 7 2015)

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"Students attending a private Christian school will start the year in a renovated building that used to be Francis Scott Elementary School until CPS...
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WIN: Covent Hotel Renovation and Conversion to Affordable Housing to Begin

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"Construction is set to begin on the Covent Hotel redevelopment this September after years of planning and approval hurdles. Originally proposed back in 2016,...
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WIN: 100-Year Old ‘Ghost Signs’ Rescued Just Days Before Demolition

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Bob Behounek, Robert Frese, Kelsey McClellan and Andrew McClellan pose for a photo at 3609 N. Ravenswood Ave. on Aug. 3, 2022, where well-preserved...
Threatened

THREATENED: State Seeks to Unload Damen Silos

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"Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to sell off an abandoned industrial site in Chicago best known as a backdrop for the 2014 Hollywood blockbuster 'Transformers:...
Preservation In The News

Chicago Tribune: ‘Capturing Louis Sullivan’ at Driehaus Museum: 50 years after Richard Nickel’s death, his photographs still haunt and inspire

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"Richard Nickel was nothing if not a man of his word. "'I’m afraid our days of adventuring, salvaging, avoiding the cops, etc. in the cause...

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