NEWSLETTEREditorial/Op-Ed
Editorial/Op-Ed
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,...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Are the Endangered Century and Consumer Buildings Headed Toward Landmark Status? Let’s Hope So. (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: Explore preservation group’s plan to save two doomed Loop towers
"We’re intrigued by a preservation group’s plan to save a seemingly doomed pair of Loop office buildings by turning the towers into a local...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Bad times at Antioch Baptist: A roofer’s torch claims another landmark Chicago church
"'Great architecture has only two natural enemies,' the late Chicago preservationist Richard Nickel famously said. 'Water and stupid men.'"But Nickel might’ve added a third...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Explore preservation group’s plan to save two doomed Loop towers
"We’re intrigued by a preservation group’s plan to save a seemingly doomed pair of Loop office buildings by turning the towers into a local...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: A federal case: U.S. government shouldn’t wreck two Loop skyscrapers in the name of safety
"The federal government has given Chicago some pretty good buildings, from the giant Art Deco Old Main Post Office — now enjoying reuse —...
THREATENED: Chicago Sun-Times Op-Ed: Modernist building’s slated demolition exposes weaknesses in Chicago’s landmark laws
"The building’s official address on Fullerton Parkway is a parking lot, so odds are you’ve never really noticed the beautiful structure on Cleveland Avenue,...
THREATENED: “I want to save a historic Chicago home. I’m up against developers who would rather raze it.”
"When I pulled the creaky front door shut, the bungalow’s weathered door knob popped off in my hand. I ran my fingers over its...