March 2023 Newsletter
WIN: After Viral Petition, the Warehouse Granted Preliminary Landmark Designation! (Chicago 7 2023)
"Barely a month after being named to Preservation Chicago’s annual list of the city’s 'most endangered' buildings, the Warehouse — aka, the 'birthplace' of...
WIN: Epworth Church Receives Final Landmark Designation Approval
If not for the preservation advocacy effort, Epworth Church would have been demolished.Preservation Chicago has been working to find good preservation outcome for Epworth...
WIN: After 23 Year Advocacy Effort, Promontory Point Receives Final Chicago Landmark Recommendation (Chicago 7 2022)
"The Commission on Chicago Landmarks voted unanimously on Thursday to recommend that City Council designate Promontory Point as a city landmark; a decision met...
Op-Ed: Giving Promontory Point landmark status would be a victory for preservation and access
"As children, my friends and I often raced across the rocks churned by the waves of Lake Michigan into mountains, crevices and caves. We...
THREATENED: Demolition for Sideyard Looming Fire-Era 2240 N. Burling After Demolition Delay Expires
"Judy Blatherwick and her family put in decades of work restoring their graceful, Italianate wood-frame home in Lincoln Park, but after selling the nearly...
POTENTIAL WIN: Three Historic LaSalle Street Skyscrapers Selected For Adaptive Reuse
"City officials have picked three projects totaling 1,000 apartments to kick off their push to revive the beleaguered LaSalle Street business district by providing...
THREATENED: Schulze Baking Company Data Center Adaptive Reuse Stalled Since 2018
"Chicago still has its mojo in the data center business."Data centers aren’t the sort of real estate development that get much glory. There’s typically...
THREATENED: Pioneer Arcade Redevelopment Stalls Without Allocation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (Chicago 7 2015)
"1535 N. Pulaski Road is no ordinary Chicago building. Modeled after 17th- and 18th-century Spanish Baroque style architecture, rising two stories with an ivory-colored,...
WIN: Art Deco Lawson House YMCA Renovation Nearing Completion
"The overhaul of the former Lawson House YMCA is taking shape after more than a year of construction."Developers hosted a walkthrough of the property,...
WIN: After 37 Year Closure, the Ramova Theater Restoration Makes Significant Progress (Chicago 7 2012)
"The future of the long vacant Ramova Theatre is coming into clearer focus as work progresses to turn the 1920s movie house in Bridgeport...