September 2025 Newsletter
WIN: William Le Baron Jenney’s Designed Central YMCA Association Building at 19 S. LaSalle Receives Preliminary Chicago Landmark Recommendation
"19 South LaSalle Street has been described as one of Jenney’s most ‘uncompromising’ facades due to its rectangularity which is only interrupted by horizontal...
WIN: Adaptive Reuse of Field Building at 135 S. LaSalle Street Approved By City Council
"The Chicago City Council has approved $98 million in TIF funding for the residential conversion of The Field Building at 135 S. LaSalle. Originally...
WIN: Despite Legal Challenges, Preliminary Landmark Designation Awarded to Bankers Building / Clark Adams Building at 105 W. Adams Street
"A $184 million plan to turn most of a Loop office tower into apartments is a step closer to reality after Chicago officials deemed...
WIN: City Council Approves Pittsfield Building Renovation and Adaptive Reuse
"Another project that’s converting office space into residences is coming to the Loop after getting the City Council’s approval Thursday."The Pittsfield Building, a Chicago...
WIN: Triple-Pane Glass Will Enhance Thompson Center / Google HQ’s Thermal Efficiency (Chicago 7 2016, 2018, 2019 & 2020)
"The transformation of the Thompson Center into the new Google HQ in The Loop continues, as the new glass skin continues to wrap around...
POTENTIAL WIN: City Seeks Federal Section 108 Loan For Congress Theater Restoration to Begin
"For the third time, city officials hope more funding will jump-start a long-planned overhaul of the Congress Theater."The highly anticipated revival of the theater,...
THREATENED: Fisk Power Station Threatened With Demolition
"Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez says he’ll attempt to block a demolition permit for a former coal plant in Pilsen until more details are released about...
WIN: Landmarked Leiter II Building / Former Robert Morris University Building Sold at Auction to Chicago Developer
"A local businessman who wants to convert much of a historic office tower in Chicago’s Loop business district into affordable apartments has snapped up...
WIN: Vintage Brick-and-Timber Office Loft at 223 W. Erie Street Will Be Converted to Residential
"The Chicago City Council has approved an office to residential conversion proposed at 223 W. Erie. Planned by Concord Capital, the existing seven-story office...
SUN-TIMES COLUMN: Is it the end for a modernist Streeterville building with Victorian roots? 67 E. Oak St.
"A slender Streeterville low-rise has been a rooming house, an artist’s studio and the Chicago headquarters of a presidential candidate, before a late 1960s...