January 2018 Newsletter

If you value preservation in Chicago… please support Preservation Chicago!

Preservation Chicago is a small organization with a big impact. In a city the size of Chicago, every drop of YOUR support counts.Please CHOOSE to...

Preservation Chicago to announce the 2018 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered Buildings” Wednesday, February 28, at Noon

Preservation Chicago will announce its “Chicago 7 Most Endangered Buildings List” for 2018 at noon on February 28, 2018 in the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s...

Design Dialogues: Building Up Bronzeville February 13 at Chicago Architecture Foundation

From CAF Design Dialogues Website: Perhaps no Chicago neighborhood has experienced as turbulent a century as Bronzeville. Join us for a lecture and panel discussion...

Possible Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thematic Chicago Landmark District discussed during Ward Miller interview at DuSable Museum on Dr. King’s Birthday

Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago and Perri Irmer, President of the DuSable Museum of African American History, were interviewed by Cliff Kelley on WVON...

Potentially THREATENED: Washington Park National Bank Building Redevelopment Initiative (Chicago 7 2016) Workshops February 6 and February 20

From Chuck Sido’s Bisnow Article:“The Cook County Land Bank Authority, which was established to clear the titles of distressed properties for resale to prospective...

THREATENED: Time is Running Out to Save the Woodruff Arcade! Please sign the Petition.

What has been reported to be the last remaining arcade in Chicago, and one of the last remaining in the nation, is threatened with...

THREATENED: Uptown Theatre Petition Approaching 10,000 Signatures!

Preservation Chicago and the Friends of Uptown Theatre have sponsored the petition "Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Restore the Uptown!" Momentum is growing, but we need...

WIN: Morton Salt Warehouse to be Saved and Adaptively Reused as Salt District Mixed-Use Redevelopment.

The 4.25 acre riverfront Morton Salt industrial campus will be adaptively reused by developer R2 Company, which recently purchased the property from Morton Salt...

WIN: City Issues Request for Proposals for Two Central Manufacturing District Buildings (Chicago 7 2014)

The City of Chicago Community Development Commission has issued a Request for Qualifications and Proposals for the redevelopment of two city-owned, massive Central Manufacturing...

WIN: Art Moderne Bronzeville Church to Receive $228K of Restoration Adopt-a-Landmark Funding

The striking Art Moderne First Church of Deliverance located at 4315 S. Wabash Avenue in Bronzeville received a $228,000 restoration grant from the Chicago...