May 2025 Newsletter

WIN: United Electrical Workers Union Hall Adaptively Reused for Residential

"The residential conversion of the former West End Woman’s Club building at 37 South Ashland Avenue on the Near West Side is now complete....

WIN: 3741 W. Lawrence To Be Adaptively Reused as Performing Arts Center

"A new performing arts and gathering space is a step closer to coming to Albany Park thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the...

THREATENED: 6116-34 S. MLK Drive At Risk of Emergency Demolition

"Dozens of tenants of an apartment building on Chicago's South Side have been given a two-day notice to vacate."That notice says it is from...

WIN: Former Thillens Building Repurposed for Pickleball Courts

"On the 4200 block of North Elston Avenue, a Chicago institution has a new tenant."'Everybody knows Thillens,' Chris Sears said."Sears opened the Pickleball Clubhouse...

CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: Old Fashioned Donuts, Since 1972

"Walking into Old Fashioned Donuts, Leda Edwards knew exactly where she’d find her grandfather — making doughnuts."Since 1972, shop owner Burritt Bulloch, 86, has...

BUYER WANTED: Green Mill and Green Mill Building For Sale

"The longtime owner of the Green Mill, a jazz club on Chicago’s North Side known for booking famous musicians, Hollywood cameos and Prohibition-era ties...

BUYER WANTED: Yukon Building at 111 W Van Buren Street Listed For Sale (Chicago 7 2016)

The Yukon building, 1898, Holabird & Roche, 400 S. Clark St. Image credit: WBEZ Chicago"A downtown Chicago building — meant to be temporary when...

BUYER WANTED: Landmarked Row House by John Wellborn Root at 1312 N. Astor Street Listed For Sale

"At an 1880s Gold Coast row house, up for sale for the first time since the mid-1980s, the architectural significance is both about what's...

BUYER WANTED: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Landmarked Roloson House Listed for Sale

"A row house in an early project designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and saved from ruin decades later is on the market in a...

90-Day Demolition Delay : 2628 S. Wabash Avenue, Motor Row

#101067339 Date Received: 04/01/2025 Ward: 43rd Ward Ald. Timmy Knudsen Applicant: Viewpoint Service, Inc. d/b/a Brophy Evacuation C/O Anne Quinn Owner: Wreck and removal of a 3-story, masonry,...