Month-in-Review Newsletter
LOSS: The Wrecking Ball Is Response To Preservation Chicago’s Written Offer for $1.5 Million to Move Chicago Town and Tennis and Petition with 3,000...
Link to T witter video of Demolition of Chicago Town and Tennis Club/Unity Church, 1925, George W. Maher and Son, 1925 W. Thome Avenue....
June 2020 Month-in-Review Newsletter
Music Box Theatre Begins Phased Reopening This Weekend With Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’Table of Contents
ADVOCACYLOSS: Chicago Town and Tennis Club / Unity Church Demolished
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Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75 A new book by Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino
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...
Metropolitan Planning Council: It’s time to get serious about preserving Chicago’s two- to four-unit apartment buildings
"The plight of Chicago’s small, two to four-unit buildings, has received research and media attention for nearly a decade, yet little by way of...
Ask Geoffrey on WTTW Chicago: Chicago’s Vanishing Water Tanks. They’re rare now, but rooftop water tanks once stood sentinel atop every large building in...
Ask Geoffrey: Chicago’s Vanishing Water Tanks, Erica Gunderson, WTTW Chicago, 7/16/20"They’re rare now, but rooftop water tanks once stood sentinel atop every large building...
TED Radio Hour on WBEZ: How Can Seeing Black History As American History Begin To Make Amends? With Brent Leggs of the African American...
"How can we make amends for the atrocities of slavery and segregation? Historian and preservationist Brent Leggs discusses one step in confronting the past:...
Chicago Magazine: What’s Next for Northerly Island? Chicago planned to turn the 91-acre peninsula into an oasis on Lake Michigan. A decade later, it’s...
"Somewhere, Daniel Burnham weeps."In 1909, the 19th-century architect first floated the idea of a manmade park off the coast of Chicago, stretching seven miles...
Curious City on WBEZ: From Cemetery Saloons To Movie Palaces; How Uptown Became An Entertainment Hub
"If you stand at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Broadway in the Uptown neighborhood, you’ll see two famous Chicago music venues: the Riviera...
LOSS: “Spotlight on Demolition” Pieter Boone House, 10057 S. Michigan Avenue, Roseland
“It’s an old, common cry in a city where demolition and development are often spoken in the same breath, and where trying to save...