“The Obama Presidential Center recently opened to great fanfare at a June celebration that included former presidents, celebrities and hundreds of Chicago residents. While...

PITN: ‘Give While You Live’ — Julius Rosenwald, the Humble Founder Who Refused to Put His Name on the Museum of Science and Industry“Rosenwald...

“After hiding in plain sight on the south lakefront for seven decades, carved stone fragments of a significant 19th century building by architect Louis...

“This monumental building, with its two towers and long open-air promenades on the lower and upper levels, is a century-old symbol of Chicago’s love...

“Promontory Point, a 40-acre bulb poking eastward into Lake Michigan at 55th Street, is a deliberately picturesque piece of the south lakefront. A peninsula...

“As a proud Chicagoan since the 1950s, I believe there’s another powerful way to honor our nation at this moment: by protecting the history...

“Chicago’s preservation scholarship and documentation have long lived in separate silos — city, state, and federal landmark databases, university archives, survey records, and community...

“Preservation Chicago is an advocacy organization. It’s a nonprofit that encourages the preservation of historic buildings, and we’re not looking at every historic building....

The West Loop historic plaques project installs four more plaques in the West Loop with four more in the works.Connie Fairbanks, historian and longtime...

"In the 1990s, Joe Partipilo's collection of antiques was growing at the same time the Lutheran church was shrinking its real estate footprint in...