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Editorial/Op-Ed
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Go Back to Square One on Humboldt Park Building
"No one, confronted with a Gordian knot of red tape just to relocate a driveway by a couple of feet, would imagine someone else...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Illinois Needs Better Rules for Selling Off Unneeded Land
"Illinois has an inadequate process for selling off land it no longer needs. It ought to do better."The glaring shortcoming was demonstrated when the...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Chicago’s Oldest House Gets a New Name and a Renewed Mission
"A city-owned Greek Revival house that’s considered Chicago’s oldest home most likely wouldn’t exist today were it not for an influential South Side pastor."But...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Reopen long-shuttered Green Line L station in Englewood
"Englewood residents and community organizers have been pushing for years to get the 63rd Street and Racine Avenue Green Line station reopened — and...
OP-ED: Save the Point, Make it a Chicago City Landmark (Chicago 7 2022)
"To the Editor,"On October 18th, members of the Promontory Point Conservancy met with Superintendent of the Chicago Park District Rosa Ecareno and Commissioner of...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Downtown’s Endangered Century and Consumers Buildings Deserve Landmark Status (Chicago 7 2011, 2013 & 2022)
"The Century and Consumers buildings, two vacant downtown skyscrapers that are shamefully rotting away and now targeted for demolition by the federal government, might...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Give an A+ for effort to grant landmark status for Bowen High School
"When Carl Schurz High School was granted city landmark status in 1979, the report making the case for the designation listed other architecturally significant...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Take the Tiger Woods South Side Golf Course Off the Table (Chicago 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021)
"It’s time to give up on the moribund plan for a professional-caliber South Side golf course, stuff it into the golf bag along with...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: When Wall Comes Tumbling Down at Lakeside Center, Action is Needed
"It’s been an open secret for the past decade that McCormick Place’s ragged Lakeside Center needs a major, big-ticket rehabilitation."Additional proof came Monday evening...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Landmark Chicago Vocational High School
Update: Chicago Vocational High School was approved for National Register of Historic Places application by the Commission of Chicago Landmarks meeting on July 7,...