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...
POTENTIAL WIN: Plans Emerging for Adaptive Reuse of Salvation Army Building as Boutique Hotel (Chicago 7 2021)
Braun & Fitts Butterine Factory / Wrigley Lodge / Salvation Army, Furst & Rudolph in 1891, with Art Deco/Art Moderne Remodeling by Albert...
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 Reader: Chicago’s blessed with a motherlode of stunning churches; Fire is not their greatest danger
"What kind of God allows a church to burn down on Good Friday?"That’s the question that came to mind when the 130-year-old Antioch Missionary...
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...
Glessner House: Richard Nickel and Glessner House by William Tyre
"April 13, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of Richard Nickel in the partially demolished Chicago Stock Exchange building at 30...