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Editorial/Op-Ed
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Saving classic churches sends a message: Old Chicago neighborhoods remain promised lands
"A North Lawndale church will take a step toward landmark status today — a potentially good sign in a larger fight to preserve Chicago’s...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: New Landmark Survey Overdue To Protect Chicago’s Architectural and Cultural Heritage
"There’s been some good thinking by the Lightfoot administration as of late regarding the landmarking of buildings, particularly the relatively quick march toward an...
WIN: Chicago Tribune Editorial – “Cook County Hospital is a Stunning Trauma Survivor” (Chicago 7 2003 and 2004)
"For most of a century starting in 1916, the massive Cook County Hospital opened its healing hallways to wave upon wave of new and...
THREATENED: Pilsen Landmark District In Jeopardy (Chicago 7 2006) In Support: A Chicago Sun-Times Editorial
IN SUPPORT: Pilsen’s architectural heritage can be protected without pushing out the working class. Needed: a landmark district that protects Pilsen’s architecture, but provides...
THREATENED: Pilsen Landmark District In Jeopardy (Chicago 7 2006) In Opposition: A Letter to the Editor from the Alderman
IN OPPOSITION: Sun-Times’ editorial defending landmark district plan for Pilsen is ‘pie in the sky’; The city simply cannot afford what it would take...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Chicago’s ‘Other’ Michigan Avenue Could Be Magnificent Once More (Chicago 7 2020)
"Keep an eye on the Roseland neighborhood’s Michigan Avenue, once a retail strip so popular it was called Chicago’s second Magnificent Mile. Shoppers could...
THREATENED: Preservation Chicago Releases Demolition Best Practice Guidelines In Response to Crawford Demolition Debacle (Chicago 7 2014 & 2019)
Chicago’s demolition regulations are weak and rarely enforced. The outrage over the Crawford Power Station demolition debacle must result in city-wide reforms to better protect...