Month-in-Review Newsletter
WIN: Sheridan Trust & Savings Bank Building / Uptown National Bank / Bridgeview Bank to be Adaptively Reused
Uptown National Bank Building, Marshall & Fox, 1924, 4753 N. Broadway. Photo Credit: Max Chavez / Preservation Chicago"One of the most prominent and...
WIN: Former West Pullman School Adaptively Reused for Senior Housing
"Anyone who enters the nearly block-long brick structure in West Pullman expecting to find a typical collection of apartments for seniors is in for...
WIN: Miracle House Becomes Preliminary Chicago Landmark
"The Chicago Commission on Landmarks voted unanimously during its Dec. 3 virtual meeting to grant the preliminary landmark designation to Galewood's so-called Miracle House...
THREATENED: Congress Theater Restoration In Jeopardy After Developer Losses Property
"Around the same time the lawsuit became public, a judge appointed a receiver to 'care for' the 1920s theater, which has fallen into disrepair,...
WIN: Preliminary Landmark Status Approved for Cluster of Four Historic Buildings at Willow and Halsted
"The Commission on Chicago Landmarks approved on Dec 3, 2020 the preliminary landmark proposal for a cluster of four late 19th century buildings in...
THREATENED: Thompson Center Sale Delayed Due to Pandemic Economy (Chicago 7 2018, 2019, & 2020)
"Count the state of Illinois’ plan to line up a buyer for the James R. Thompson Center by the end of 2020 as another...
Chicago Tribune Column: The despised Pilsen landmark plan gets a hearing today. Here’s how to save the treasured neighborhood. (Chicago 7 2006)
"There’s no doubt Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood has the stuff to become an official city landmark district. Yet a plan to do just that is...
LOSS: Pilsen Landmark District Rejected (Chicago 7 2006)
"A City Council committee on December 1, 2020 shot down a controversial plan to create one of the city’s largest landmark districts in the...
THREATENED: New 90 Day Demolition Delay for Lake Street Schlitz Tied House / La Lucé After Demo Permit Accidentally Released!
"A surviving Victorian building in Chicago’s rapidly developing Fulton Market district, originally a Schlitz tavern and later the home of the Italian restaurant La...