Month-in-Review Newsletter
WIN: Preservation-Sensitive Adaptive Reuse Project Completed at Sears on Lawrence (Chicago 7 2016)
"Summit Design + Build has completed construction at 1900 W. Lawrence in the North Side’s Ravenswood neighborhood. The nearly 100-year-old building was the former...
THREATENED: 25 Catholic Parishes Organize to Protest Threatened Church Closings (Chicago 7 2019 & 2021)
"Over two dozen parishioners called out the Archdiocese of Chicago on Wednesday for what they say is putting profit over the faithful by closing...
WIN: City Agrees to Landmark St. Adalbert Church (Chicago 7 2014 & 2016)
"Officials finally are taking the first steps to landmark Pilsen’s iconic St. Adalbert Roman Catholic Church after a years-long fight by former parishioners to...
POTENTIAL WIN: Long Vacant Palmer Mansion Might Be Sold and Adaptively Reused for African American Media Archive (Chicago 7 2019)
"A Bronzeville-based archive of Black media is preparing to buy a long-vacant home on King Drive once owned by community organizers Lutrelle 'Lu' Palmer...
THREATENED: Long Neglected Burnham Designed Pavilion in Jackson Park Struck by Car in Accident (Chicago 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021)
"A historic, century-old comfort station on the southeastern end of Jackson Park was struck by an SUV and damaged last week."But the single-story open-air...
PARTIAL LOSS: Demolition Begins on Three-Story Section of ADM Mill Building (Chicago 7 2021)
"Sterling Bay is demolishing a former Archer Daniels Midland flour mill in the Fulton Market district, after preservationists unsuccessfully urged the Chicago developer to...
WIN: Laramie State Bank to be Restored by INVEST South/West Initiative (Chicago 7 2019)
"A vacant West Side bank will be redeveloped into a café, a business incubator, and a museum celebrating the history of Chicago blues, city...
THREATENED: ~8K Petition Signatures Help Secure 60 Day Demolition Delay for Lake Street Schlitz Tied House
"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...
THREATENED: Roman Catholic Churches A 2021 Chicago 7 Most Endangered
Overview
This year, for a second time since 2019, Preservation Chicago has chosen to spotlight the consolidation, deconsecration, combining, closure and sale of many of...