Month-in-Review Newsletter
WIN: City Launches $750 million Invest South/West Initiative to Revitalize Disinvested Communities With a Focus on Neglected Historic Neighborhood Buildings & Commercial Corridors
"Mayor Lori Lightfoot's administration has spent the past 10 months preparing to reshape blighted commercial corridors on the city's South and West sides. Now...
THREATENED: Asphalt Plant’s Toxic Pollution Blocks Affordable Housing Adaptive Reuse of Key Central Manufacturing District Building (Chicago 7 2014 & 2020)
"Chicago planning officials are exploring whether a McKinley Park asphalt plant owned by a politically connected businessman can be moved to another location following...
THREATENED: Court Rules that Public Citizens Have No Standing in Public Trust Doctrine and Public Land Use Case Regarding Jackson Park (Chicago 7 2017...
"A lawsuit over the planned Obama Presidential Center’s campus in Jackson Park has stalled after a federal appeals court panel ruled the plaintiffs did...
WIN: After Years of Advocacy, Emmett Till Home Designated Preliminary Chicago Landmark!
"Preservationists and the family of Emmett Till moved a step closer in efforts to landmark the childhood home of the Chicago teen whose murder...
THREATENED: Rear Brick Walls of Pilgrim Baptist Church/KAM Synagogue Collapse in Storm (Chicago 7 2007)
"It didn’t take long for Cynthia Jones to find out how badly Pilgrim Baptist Church had been damaged when winds of nearly 100 mph...
THREATENED: After Owners Reject Sale to Foundation for Community Performance Arts Center, Residential Tower Proposed for Second Church of Christ, Scientist in Lincoln Park...
The Second Church of Christ, Scientist at 2700 N. Pine Grove Avenue has been an architectural masterpiece in the Lincoln Park community for nearly...
August 2020 Month-in-Review Newsletter
Table of ContentsADVOCACYWIN: Emmett Till Home Designated Preliminary Chicago Landmark
THREATENED: Second Church Threatened by New Construction (Chicago 7 2019)
THREATENED: Rear Brick...
Chicago Tribune Column: Let’s toast the architecture of Chicago’s beer buildings, even if this isn’t happy hour for some of them
"Raise a glass to Chicago’s architecturally alluring beer buildings. Their ornate brickwork, fanciful turrets and other decorative flourishes make them a savory alternative to...
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Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75 Receives Prestigious Docomomo Modernism in America Award
Modern in the Middle
Chicago Houses 1929-75
Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino; foreword by Pauline Saliga
THE FIRST SURVEY OF THE CLASSIC TWENTIETH-CENTURY HOUSES THAT DEFINED AMERICAN...