Month-in-Review Newsletter
Schweikher House Tour on Docomomo Tour Day Oct 12th from 10 to 2
The Schweikher House Tour
October 12, 2019
10:00am - 2:00pmCo-sponsored by the: The Schweikher House Preservation Trust and DOCOMOMOLink to purchase tickets.Upon its completion in 1938,...
Open House Chicago 2019 Saturday and Sunday October 19 and 20 Free behind-the-scenes access to more than 350 buildings across Chicago
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OHC WILL TAKE PLACE OCTOBER 19-20, 2019.
The Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago is a free public...
Jazz Age Party at Glessner House Thursday, October 10, 2019 6 to 9 PM
Link to purchase tickets for the Glessner House Jazz Age PartyIt’s October 1919 and Prohibition has just been signed into law - come drink...
Successful Community Survey Event Documents and Honors Roseland’s Historic Character
At one time, Roseland was called the Jewel of the South Side.Volunteers turned out at the end of August to survey properties along the...
RADIO: Why Chicago’s Depression-Era School Murals Sparked Debates About Art And Politics For 80 Years
"Earlier this year, Lake View resident Pamela Monaco read about a debate dividing the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. Three schools there were in...
RADIO: What’s That Building? Inside The Former Armour Institute Of Technology
"Amid the many modernist steel-and-glass buildings on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology stands a red brick Victorian that occupies nearly an...
THREATENED: 4403 S. Oakenwald Needs a Savior
4403 S. Oakenwald from circa 1880 is located in the North Kenwood Historic District. The building's condition is approaching unsalvageable. So we are promoting...
LOSS: Historic Wachowski-Ray House in Jefferson Park Demolished
"A 105-year-old home in Jefferson Park where the first Mass for Saint Constance Parish was held demolished, although the Northwest Chicago Historical Society...
THREATENED: After a site visit, Alderman stands by her comments about South Shore Nature Sanctuary “All dead…it’s been dead for some years.” (Chicago 7...
Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) proclaimed in the Sun-Times that the cherished South Shore Nature Sanctuary is “actually all dead...it’s been dead for some years.”...