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Roseland’s South Michigan Avenue Commercial District: The Avenue’s Past, Present and Future. An original video short by Preservation Chicago

"Roseland’s South Michigan Avenue Commercial District is the commercial center and heart of this Far South Side community, located approximately 15 miles from downtown...

Preservation Chicago Tours the Arlington Deming Historic District. An Original Documentary

Host, Ward Miller, Executive Director of Preservation Chicago guides you on a tour of one of Lincoln Park's most important historic districts.Learn how the...

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75 Receives Prestigious Docomomo Modernism in America Award

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...

WATCH: “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” Overview and Full Presentation

2020 'Chicago 7 Most Endangered' Video Unabridged Recording (55:28) presented to live capacity audience at the Preservation Chicago 2020 'Chicago 7 Most Endangered' announcement,...

WATCH: Preservation Chicago’s 2020 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” Unabridged Presentation

2020 'Chicago 7 Most Endangered' Video Unabridged Recording (55:28) Image Credit: Preservation ChicagoWatch the full, unabridged recording of Preservation Chicago's announcement and presentation of...

WATCH The Fascinating Interview! How the Auditorium Changed Europe with Rolf Achilles and Rich Regan

"This week’s #AudTalk features a conversation between Auditorium CEO Rich Regan and Rolf Achilles, an art historian and historical preservationist who has written and...

WATCH: Ask Geoffrey – The Story Behind the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium on WTTW Chicago

"A one time tree nursery became a bucolic place of rest and recovery for tuberculosis patients on Chicago’s North Side. Geoffrey Baer shares this...

WATCH: A Virtual Tour of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in the Humboldt Park Stables

"This year marks 25 years since the flag sculptures were installed above Division Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood."In the nearby park, another landmark...

READ: High Fidelity Turns 20, and the Chicago It Imagined Is Gone; A writer reflects on the vanished city the movie immortalized in Chicago...

"It would be an exaggeration to say watching High Fidelity persuaded me to move to Chicago nearly two decades ago, but it didn’t hurt....