June 2026 Newsletter
UChicago: Academic Consortium Launches Interactive Webmap of Chicago’s Historic Preservation Landscape
"Chicago's preservation scholarship and documentation have long lived in separate silos — city, state, and federal landmark databases, university archives, survey records, and community...
Lt. Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker: On America’s 250th Anniversary, Chicago Needs More Stewards To Preserve Its Story
"As a proud Chicagoan since the 1950s, I believe there's another powerful way to honor our nation at this moment: by protecting the history...
WGN 9 Chicago: Celebrating America’s history – Chicago, The Birthplace of The Skyscraper
"'There’s not a city that’s considered a city that doesn’t have a skyscraper, and Chicago really set the stage for the at after the...
Crain’s Chicago: Pieces of Long-Lost Louis Sullivan Building Revealed on Chicago’s South Lakefront
"After hiding in plain sight on the south lakefront for seven decades, carved stone fragments of a significant 19th century building by architect Louis...
CBS News Chicago: Chicago’s Former Tied Houses Once Linked with Schlitz and other Breweries Offer a Window to History
"Production of Schlitz beer will soon go on indefinite hiatus, but its belted globe logo will live on etched in stone at what were...
CBS News Chicago: America at 250: How Chicago Helped Transform Jazz and Spread the Music Across the U.S.
"'We like to say it started in New Orleans, grew up in Chicago, and really spread to the world,' said Heather Ireland Robinson, executive...
Crain’s Chicago Business: This Old North Center Church Became an Antique Collector’s Sanctuary
"In the 1990s, Joe Partipilo's collection of antiques was growing at the same time the Lutheran church was shrinking its real estate footprint in...
The West Loop Historic Plaques Project Installs Five New Plaques, with Four More In Process
The West Loop historic plaques project installs four more plaques in the West Loop with four more in the works.Connie Fairbanks, historian and longtime...
Sold-Out Screening of John Vinci’s KAM/Pilgrim Baptist Church Virtual Reality Film at the Arts Club of Chicago, June 30, 2026
On June 30, Preservation Chicago was proud to co-sponsor the inaugural screening of a remarkable new virtual reality film by architect and preservationist John...
Bridgehouse Museum presents “Unlocking Potential: Leveraging The Power of Preservation to Reactivate Chicago’s Bridgehouses as Community Cultural Spaces” Thursday, July...
Bridgehouse Museum presents
“Unlocking Potential: Leveraging The Power of Preservation to Reactivate Chicago's Bridgehouses as Community Cultural Spaces”
Thursday, July 23, 2026
5:15 PM - 6 PM"Chicago's...