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SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Fight the Power: City Must Move Quickly on Landmark Status for Fed-Owned Loop Skyscrapers (Chicago 7 2011, 2013, 2022 & 2023)

"The Century and Consumers buildings downtown are landmarks in every sense of the word."Built in 1913, the upswept 16-story Century at 202 S. State...

SUN-TIMES COLUMN – City and Community Seek New Life For Historic Former Industrial Park (Chicago 7 2020)

"Make a list of the city’s most historically important places and the buildings of the old Central Manufacturing District in the McKinley Park neighborhood...

SUN-TIMES COLUMN – City and Community Seek New Life For Historic Former Industrial Park (Chicago 7 2020)

"Make a list of the city’s most historically important places and the buildings of the old Central Manufacturing District in the McKinley Park neighborhood...

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...