August 2022 Newsletter
WIN: Francis Scott Key Public School in Austin Reopens as The Field School (Chicago 7 2015)
"Students attending a private Christian school will start the year in a renovated building that used to be Francis Scott Elementary School until CPS...
WIN: Muddy Waters MOJO Museum Momentum Finally Overcomes Aldermanic Delays with Approval to Buy Adjacent Vacant Lot
"The Muddy Waters MOJO Museum could get a new garden to host outdoor performances — if the city allows the owner to buy an...
WIN: Henry B. Clarke House / Bishop Ford House to Begin $1 Million Renovation
"Bishop Louis Henry Ford, the influential Black pastor who saved a noteworthy 1830s house from ruin and rehabbed it over the course of decades,...
WIN: ‘Authenticity is Guiding Principle’ for Adaptive Reuse of Peabody Elementary School into Residential Building (Chicago 7 2015)
"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....
WIN: Maxim’s to Reopen as the Astor Club in Late 2022
"On a recent sunny morning, Goudy Square, the small park in the heart of the Gold Coast at Astor and Goethe Streets, was alive...
IN MEMORIAM: Harold Lucas; Bronzeville Preservationist, Organizer, Activist, and Historian
"Bronzeville probably would look very different today if it weren’t for the passion of Harold Lucas."Mr. Lucas, the son of a Pullman porter and...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Take the Tiger Woods South Side Golf Course Off the Table (Chicago 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021)
"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...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Give an A+ for effort to grant landmark status for Bowen High School
"When Carl Schurz High School was granted city landmark status in 1979, the report making the case for the designation listed other architecturally significant...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Downtown’s Endangered Century and Consumers Buildings Deserve Landmark Status (Chicago 7 2011, 2013 & 2022)
"The Century and Consumers buildings, two vacant downtown skyscrapers that are shamefully rotting away and now targeted for demolition by the federal government, might...
WTTW Chicago: The Richard Nickel Story
"Just a few decades ago, Chicago was tearing many architectural landmarks, including the work of legendary architect Louis Sullivan. No one, it seemed, felt...

