December 2020 Newsletter
WIN: Restoration Begins on Givins Castle in Beverly
"Major repairs at the Givins Castle, the landmark at the corner of 103rd Street and Longwood Drive, are officially underway."After inspections found extensive deterioration...
LOSS: Former Dairy in Lincoln Park To Be Demolished
"They always called it the dairy."'Come to the dairy,' Deborah Clarkson would often say when she invited people to her home. She liked how...
WIN: Schlitz Tied House at 9401 S. Ewing Avenue Granted Preliminary Landmark Status!
On June 4, 2020, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks voted to award preliminary Landmark designation to the former Schlitz Brewery-Tied House located at 9401...
LOSS: McKinley Park Wrigley Factory Demolished for Truck Cross-Dock Warehouse
"Demolition is for the former Wrigley factory site at West 35th Street and South Ashland Avenue, clearing the way for a last-mile shipping...
THREATENED: New Residential High-Rise Tower Tower Approved to Replace Cassidy Tire Building by Architect Henry Schlacks
On May 21, the Chicago Department of Planning and Development approved a plan to demolish the Cassidy Tire building to make way for a...
WIN: West Side YMCA/YWCA Adaptively Reused for Residential Apartments
"A set of red brick buildings that over the course of a century held first a YMCA/YWCA and later the Salvation Army is set...
THREATENED: Two Redevelopment Proposals Have Fallen Through for St. Paul’s Church in Wicker Park
"A 19th-century church building on North Avenue where two proposed residential conversions have failed in recent years is back on the market, at $2.4...
WIN: $10 Million Awarded to Transform Vacant Auburn Gresham 1920s Terra Cotta Building into Healthy Neighborhood Hub
"A shuttered 1920s terra cotta building and a vacant former Chicago police impound lot will be transformed into neighborhood hubs of healthy living, health...
WIN: Former Logan Square Synagogue Adaptively Reused as Residential Apartments
"A building that for a century served Palmer Square neighbors, either through religious services or after-school programming, has been transformed into more than a...
WIN: 30 Vacant Homes In North Pullman to be Rehabbed Into Affordable Housing
"Thirty empty homes in the North Pullman neighborhood may soon be rehabbed into affordably priced for-sale housing, if the Chicago City Council approves a...