May 2024 Newsletter
WIN: City Council Approves Adopt-A-Landmark Grant and Class L Tax Designation for Mid-City Trust and Savings Bank Adaptive Reuse
"The $53.1 million rehabilitation of the Near West Side’s former Mid-City Trust and Savings Bank as a hotel will be assisted by a $1.3...
THREATENED: Strong Community Opposition Delays Ogden-Keeler Industrial Buildings Demolition Zoning Hearing (Chicago 7 2024)
"North Lawndale residents are pushing back on a plan to demolish a dozen historic manufacturing buildings and replace them with a logistics operation they...
THREATENED: Parishioners Pack Three Services on Final Day Before Our Lady of Lourdes Church is Closed (Chicago 7 2019 & 2021)
"Our Lady of Lourdes Church will soon close, and it could be demolished."But not if Preservation Chicago and other organizations succeed in saving the...
WIN: Overwhelming Support for Chicago Landmark Designation of St. Adalbert Church Complex in Full Day Hearing (Chicago 7 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021)
"A yearslong battle over a historic Polish church in Pilsen moved from the streets into the chambers of Chicago’s City Council on Friday as...
LOSS: 720 N. Wells and 207 W. Superior Demolished
"Preservationists are seeking an eleventh-hour reprieve for a historic 152-year-old River North building facing imminent demolition."The three-and-a-half story brick and cast-iron building at 720...
THREATENED: Community Pushes Back Against DePaul’s Plans to Demolish Sheffield-Belden Group (Chicago 7 2024)
"DePaul University is moving forward with efforts to demolish century-old homes to make way for a new sports facility, but it has added to...
THREATENED: Despite Chicago Landmark Designation, La Luce Building Suffers from Neglect
"In early June 2021, the city’s landmarks commission announced one of the big wins of the year for Chicago’s historical buildings. A four-story, Queen...
LOSS: Continental Can Company Building Demolished (Chicago 7 2020, 2021 & 2023)
"The Continental Can Co. building at 3815 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, is due for demolition soon to make way for a new cold-storage warehouse...
COLUMN: As workers repair Northerly Island visitors center, it’s time to rethink the recreational space (Chicago 7 2009)
"Nearly 80 years ago, Northerly Island was being positioned as the potential center of the free world."Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly and the Chicago...
THREATENED: Loyola University Plans Demolition of 1234 W. Loyola Ave. for Vacant Lot
"If you stand in front of the flatiron-style building at 1226-1234 W. Loyola—home to 30 apartments and a trio of businesses on the ground...