November 2025 Newsletter
WIN: Erie Street Row at 161 E. Erie Street Becomes Designated Chicago Landmark
""The Chicago City Council has approved the landmark designation of the Erie Street Row, a set of three rowhouses at 161 E. Erie Street....
WIN: After Final Landmark Designation, Construction Begins on William Le Baron Jenney’s Designed Central YMCA Association Building at 19 S. LaSalle
"An interior demolition permit for the office to residential conversion of 19 S. LaSalle has been issued as the building simultaneously proceeds through the...
WIN: TIF Restoration Funding Approved for Bankers Building / Clark Adams Building at 105 W. Adams Street
"The Chicago City Council has approved $67.5 million in TIF funding for the redevelopment of the Bankers Building at 105 W. Adams while also...
WIN: New Owner Plans to Reopening the 400 Theaters in Rogers Park
"The New 400 Theaters, once the city’s oldest continuously running movie house, is reopening after being obtained by the operator of several historical movie...
LOSS: Royal George Theatre Demolished for New Construction Residential Building
"A pair of buildings once home to the Royal George Theatre on North Halsted Street in Lincoln Park are now being demolished for redevelopment....
THREATENED: Fisk Power Station Threatened With Demolition (Chicago 7 2019)
"Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez says he’ll attempt to block a demolition permit for a former coal plant in Pilsen until more details are released about...
WIN: Chicago Developer Buys Landmarked Leiter II Building / Former Robert Morris University Building at Auction
"A west suburban investor behind a $184 million plan to turn a historic Loop office tower into apartments has lined up another downtown revival...
WIN: Sears Sunken Garden Receives $1M Driehaus Foundation Restoration Grant
"It’s been 50 years since Sears traded in its sprawling headquarters campus on Chicago’s West Side for a tower in the Loop. But the...
WIN: South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) Receives $2M Restoration Grant from the Driehaus Foundation
"The South Side Community Art Center — a Bronzeville landmark that has been an artistic home for generations of Black creatives such as Margaret...
WIN: Pullman’s Hotel Florence Will Be Restored and Reopened as Hotel
"On Nov. 1, 1881, the Hotel Florence opened in Pullman, at the time a railcar manufacturer’s company town south of the city of Chicago....