Month-in-Review NewsletterJanuary 2025 Newsletter

January 2025 Newsletter

    Preservation Chicago Featured in Crain’s Chicago Business Giving Guide 2024 “From Impossible to Inevitable, Preservation Chicago Catalyzes Change”

    Since 2003, the “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” has sounded the alarm on imminently threatened historic buildings and public assets in Chicago to mobilize the...

    Wrightwood 659 presents “John Akomfrah: Four Nocturnes” Sept. 27, 2024 to Feb. 15, 2025

    "Wrightwood 659 hosts two installations by distinguished artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah, whose work investigates memory, post-colonialism, temporality, and the experiences of migrant diasporas...

    Driehaus Museum presents “A Tale of Today: Materialities” February 7, 2025 to April 27, 2025

    A Tale of Today: Materialities February 7, 2025 to April 27, 2025 Presented by Driehaus Museum"The Driehaus Museum is characterized by a rich history and an...

    DePaul Art Museum presents “Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967” September 12, 2024 to February 23, 2025

    "Plenty of people start life coloring outside the lines. But sooner or later, the pressures of convention reel them in. It takes an unwavering...

    WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? Great Lakes Academy

    "As membership in organized religions has declined in the past half-century, many disused churches around the city and suburbs have been turned into apartments,...

    Chicago Neighborhoods, Mapped By Residents: Here’s Where Locals Think Official Boundaries Should Be

    "Chicagoans take their neighborhood pride seriously, whether cheering on their local high school sports team or touting the superiority of a nearby pizza joint....

    Hyde Park Stories: The Windermere Hotel

    "The first thing Paul Cornell did to create a community in Hyde Park was to bargain for a passenger stop from the Illinois Central...

    Chicago Sun-Times: Jimmy Carter built political ties and later homes in Chicago — and lasting memories. Guyon Hotel (Chicago 7 2013, 2014...

    "It’s been nearly half a century since a little-known Georgia peanut farmer hoisted a nine-year-old girl and her kid sister into the air at...

    Chicago Tribune Editorial: West Loop Entertainment District Should Not Come at the Cost of Historic Venues such as Chicago’s Uptown Theatre

    "In December 2018, the city of Chicago unveiled a $75 million plan for the long-awaited restoration of the Uptown Theatre, a stunning 1925 entertainment...

    SUN-TIMES: Homecoming of Addams Homes Animal Court Edgar Miller sculptures

    "A collection of monument-sized limestone Art Deco animal sculptures designed by Chicago artist Edgar Miller is being reinstalled at the former Jane Addams Homes...