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Preservation In The News
Chicago Legacy Businesses: The Gaslight Club: There’s A Secret Speakeasy In The Middle Of O’Hare — And It’s The Last Of Its Kind
"The Gaslight Club in the O’Hare Hilton Hotel is a relic from Chicago’s past. The 1920s-themed restaurant and bar used to have locations across...
Chicago Magazine: The Enchanted Life of a Hotel; To know the history of the Morrison is to know the history of this city
"As long as I can remember, Chicago has been besotted by the size of its monuments. Biggest. Tallest. Busiest. This makes the Morrison Hotel — the...
CBS: Chicago Hauntings: Historical ghosts at the massive nightclub that once housed the Chicago Historical Society
"The old Chicago Historical Society building at 632 N. Dearborn St. in River North is a bracing edifice—with its granite cladding and architectural features...
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Planted with love nearly 50 years ago, 54-foot blue spruce will be Chicago’s official Christmas tree
"Sarah Holden and her husband, Dave Shaddick, their daughters, Hazel and Pearl, as well as three cats and three lizards, are about to move...
MAS CONTEXT: A History of Preservation in Chicago
"Preservation in Chicago has a complicated, multidimensional nature. Preservation is a field of practice, a function of government, and an activist movement. In Chicago,...
WTTW Chicago: How Chicago’s Midway Plaisance Set the Stage for Modern Day Amusement Parks
"In 1893, 27 million people from around the world visited the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago’s Jackson Park. The gleaming fairgrounds, nicknamed the 'White...
Chicago Tribune: A century ago, Soldier Field was born as a lakefront stadium, bolstering Chicago’s image as a world-class city
"The birth of Chicago’s lakefront stadium was marked by a nasty squabble over its name. During construction it was prosaically dubbed the 'Grant Park...
Chicago Tribune: Northerly Island’s potential as an urban oasis goes unrealized as grand plans come and go
"Millions of public dollars and lots of planning have been poured into Northerly Island, but the nature preserve was nearly desolate on a sunny...
WBEZ: What’s That Building? Old Town School of Folk Music
"In the 1990s, a Chicago public library building that had sat unused for a decade got a second life. Or maybe, because of the...
WBEZ: What’s That Building? Depositors Bank and Goldblatt Store
"A pair of buildings have faced each other for a century at 47th Street and Ashland Avenue — during the heyday of the Back...