May 2022 Newsletter
WIN: Chicago YIMBY Celebrates Recent Preservation Wins Across The City
"Chicago YIMBY wants to highlight some of the preservation wins seen across the city in the last few years, with updates as of late...
WIN: In Partnership with Preservation Chicago, Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative Completes Surveys in Logan Square, McKinley Park and South Chicago
"Chicago, they say, is a city of neighborhoods. And the origins of those neighborhoods occupy a unique place among American cities – neither master-planned...
POTENTIAL WIN: Milshire Hotel Neon Sign Safe for Now After Auction Cancelled
GoFundMe Effort to Save the Milshire Hotel Neon Sign. Image Credit: Logan Square PreservationTweet from Andrew Schneider, President of Logan Square Preservation regarding the...
WIN: Spared From Demolition, Washington Park National Bank Plan Now Includes Façade Preservation! (Chicago 7 2016 & 2020)
"In January 2020, developer Leon Walker was eager to start a project that could have heralded a turnaround for the Woodlawn community on the...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Bad times at Antioch Baptist: A roofer’s torch claims another landmark Chicago church
"'Great architecture has only two natural enemies,' the late Chicago preservationist Richard Nickel famously said. 'Water and stupid men.'"But Nickel might’ve added a third...
Chicago Tribune Celebrates 175th Anniversary: From canoes to skyscrapers: A newspaper is born, and Chicago is catapulted to the world’s stage
"Imagine yourself walking the muddy streets of Chicago in June of 1847. If you had 3 cents in your pocket to spare you might...
Chicago Tribune: Whiskey Point, Slag Valley and Black Bottom: Chicago’s ‘layers upon layers’ of forgotten neighborhood names
"The small settlement of single-family homes huddled just south of the Stevenson Expressway’s Cicero exit may no longer be the swampy marsh it was...
Daily Southtown: A North Sider who embraced life in Pullman becomes national monument’s newest park ranger
"Lisa Burback lived in a Chicago Bungalow growing up on Chicago’s North Side, learning over those formative years it was more than just a...
THREATENED: Ald. Sigcho-Lopez Attempts to Downzone St. Adalbert Church But is Blocked by Mayor Lightfoot (Chicago 7 2014 & 2016)
"Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) has filed a complaint against Mayor Lori Lightfoot with the city inspector general’s office, accusing her of intervening in a...
PARTIAL WIN: After Rejecting Community Performance Arts Center Proposal Which Would Have Restored Interior and Dome, Second Church of Christ, Scientist Development Will At...
"The project is a blend of historic preservation and new construction. It would save the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, at 2700 N....