July 2026 Newsletter
PETITION: Save the Pope’s Church!
Pope Leo XIV’s Childhood Church and School, St. Mary of the Assumption, is now vacant and with a large hole in the roof.Chicago Landmark...
WIN: Austin Coming Together Acquires Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1903 J.J. Walser House and Launches a Restoration Campaign (Chicago 7 2025)
“In the Austin community on Chicago’s West Side sits the J.J. Walser House, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1903. A...
PETITION: STOP the Demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room!
STOP the Demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room!Miraculously saved from the wrecking ball in 1972, shockingly it’s once again threatened with demolition.Designed...
WIN: Ongoing Media Coverage Generates Awareness Regarding the Challenge and Vision of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Chicago 7 2026)
“Just over one year since the world greeted a new pope, a pope born in America’s heartland, Chicago. Since the elevation of Pope Leo...
WIN: City Council Designates Holabird & Root’s 1929 Chicago Daily News Building at 2 N. Riverside Plaza a Chicago Landmark (Chicago 7...
“Last week, the City Council designated the Art Deco skyscraper at 2 N. Riverside Plaza as an official Chicago landmark.“‘It’s a building that was...
WIN: Commission on Chicago Landmarks Grants Final Landmark Recommendation to Edgewater’s Bryn Mawr Historic District and Denies Demolition Permit for Contributing Building at 1114...
“A key city commission formally recommended an Edgewater historic district become a Chicago landmark while also denying a demolition permit in the district that...
LOSS: DePaul University Demolishes the Sheffield-Belden Group for Practice Gym (Chicago 7 2024)
“Construction crews are demolishing a group of row homes and apartment buildings in Lincoln Park to make room for DePaul University’s new practice facility.“But...
WIN: City Council Approves Landmark Designation and Renovation of Up Top Building at Altgeld Gardens (Chicago 7 2017 & 2022)
POTENTIAL WIN: Chicago Plan Commission Approves By The Hand Club For Kids’ Renovation of Altgeld Gardens’ Historic “Up Top” Building, Home to the Birthplace...
WIN: Initial Indicators from the “Google Effect” Confirm Substantial Benefits to the Loop (Chicago 7 2016, 2018, 2019 & 2020)
by “When Google opens its new Midwest headquarters at the James R. Thompson Center late next year, brokers and developers say it could kick...