January 2024 Newsletter
LOSS: Candy Department Closed in Marshall Field’s Building on State Street
"Macy’s on State Street closed its decades-old basement candy counter last week. But the department store will continue selling sweets, including Frango chocolates, the...
OPINION: The long decline of Macy’s in Chicago, now a shell of a once-great department store
"So Macy’s has closed the candy department in its State Street flagship. You could see it coming. For a long time, the shelves have...
IN MEMORIAM: David Bahlman, Preservationist
"In 2004, months after orchestrating the audacious $7.5 million bid to purchase and preserve Mies van der Rohe’s famed Farnsworth House, David Bahlman, who...
IN MEMORIAM: Richard Hunt, Chicago Sculptor
"Abstract sculptor Richard Hunt, a lifelong Chicagoan who in 1971 became the first African American artist to receive a solo retrospective at New York’s...
BUYER WANTED: Landmarked George W. Maher Designed Seymour House Listed For Sale
"Thirteen years after it first went up for sale and now a lender-owned foreclosure, a Hutchinson Street mansion had a near miss with selling...
BUYER WANTED: Ernest Hemingway’s Chicago Home at 1239 N. Dearborn Street Listed for Sale
"A Chicago brownstone where an unknown Ernest Hemingway bided his time before setting off to Paris is now for sale for $2 million."Hemingway lived...
BUYER WANTED: Art Moderne William J. Mathis Listed for Sale
"Located in the heart of Beverly Hills neighborhood is this beautiful gem and striking survivor of an early modernist age home (The Art Moderne)....
90-Day Demolition Delay: 2923-25 W. Jackson Blvd., East Garfield Park
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Date Received: 02/05/2024
Ward: 27th Ald. Walter Burnett Jr
Applicant: MBR Wrecking & Construction, Inc. C/O Joel Reifer
Owner: 5301 W. Ogden, LLC C/O James Spyropoulous
Permit Description:...
Block Club Chicago: Where Do TV Shows Film In Chicago? Pilsen, Logan Square And Wicker Park Are Hot Spots
"City neighborhoods might only be a few miles apart, but they can conjure vastly different worlds on shows like 'The Bear' and 'Chicago Fire.'"Pilsen,...