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The Newberry: Dinkel’s Bakery: The Story of a Lakeview Landmark
"The Newberry recently acquired the archives of Dinkel's Bakery, a landmark of the Lakeview neighborhood that closed its doors in 2022."If you’ve traveled through...
WBEZ Chicago: The Avalon Regal Theater was once a luxurious movie palace. Today, its future is uncertain. (Chicago 7 2012)
"Eleanor Truex lives in south suburban Flossmoor and occasionally, when traffic is especially bad, she gets off the highway and takes a detour through...
Chicagoland Architecture Substack Blog: Demolitions of 2022
"It’s that time of year again when we look back at the buildings we lost in 2022. Just like my 2021 post, Chicago continues...
MAS CONTEXT: Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later (Chicago 7 2014)
"In the spring of 2013, Chicago Public Schools announced that the district would be closing forty-nine public schools, the largest school closure in the...
WBEZ Chicago: The Altgeld Gardens Memorial Wall is Part of Chicago History. But Its Future is Uncertain. (Chicago 7 2022)
"A hundred and thirty blocks south of the Chicago Loop, there’s a stretch of brick wall, painted yellow, covered in hundreds and hundreds of...
TimeOut Chicago: A Brief History of Goth Target, TikTok’s Favorite Chicago Building
"Earlier this year, as thousands of people poured out of Grant Park after the first night of Lollapalooza, I gave my teenage sister and...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: The Culture War Between Small Shops and Department Stores
"At a cobbler’s bench in Bridgeport or behind a Bucktown clothier’s cash register, it looked like the cards were stacked against those merchants in...
MAS CONTEXT: Seeing Richard Nickel
"On May 9, 1972, the body of architectural photographer and preservationist Richard Nickel was found amongst the ruins of the Chicago Stock Exchange Building....
NAIOP: From Salt Storage Facility to Concert Venue
"The Morton Salt Company warehouse on Elston Avenue in Chicago once furnished tons of preservative salt for the city’s tanning industry. Today it is...
Chicago Sun-Times: Ready for their close-up; Chicago Historic Skyscrapers
"They are domed or stepped back or crenelated, like castle towers. With illuminated clocks or fierce gryphons or flying buttresses. Urns and eagles, ladies...