NEWSLETTERPreservation In The News
Preservation In The News
Chicago Legacy Businesses: 90 years of Billy Goat Tavern: A Chicago landmark and political hotspot
"If you’re looking to rub elbows with some political heavyweights the convention floor at the United Center is the best bet during business hours....
Chicago Reader: A sign of the times: Vintage signs hold community and artistic value. Amid changing neighborhoods, they’ve become increasingly endangered
"For decades, the Bridgeport Restaurant sat at the corner of 35th Street and Halsted, its bold red sign hugging the building, serving as an...
Chicago Tribune: As the Morton Salt complex was given a new life, a photographer captured the transformation
"She never intended to become a photographer but that is what Sandra Steinbrecher is and in her new book 'The Salt Shed: The Transformation...
WBEZ: What’s That Building? Thalia Hall
"The rich stone edifice of Thalia Hall is a lot to take in, consisting of four stories of columns and arches, limestone and an...
WBEZ: What’s That Building? An architectural tour of the Lakefront Trail (Chicago 7 2021)
"Whether you’re biking, running or pushing a stroller, Chicago’s 18-mile Lakefront Trail has no shortage of sights to see. On one side there’s the...
Long-Format Ward Miller Interview regarding Chicago School Skyscraper UNESCO Nomination
Long-Format Interview Ward Miller with Jon Voils of Celebrate Libraries® regarding the UNESCO process to designate nine significant early skyscrapers representing the Chicago School...
The Uptown Theatre, a Palace of Dreams By Robert Loerzel
"'It outdoes your dreams,' the advertisements declared. 'IT WILL HUSH AND THRILL YOU. It throbs with beauty—lovely enough to hold the heart of a...
Block Club Chicago: For 2 Decades, A Historic Pullman Home Has Been Vacant Under CHA’s Watch
"Now gutted and in disrepair, a two-story, multi-unit row house on South Corliss Avenue has plywood and metal guards for windows and doors."The inside...
SUN-TIMES: “Friends of the Parks ‘prepared to fight for the lakefront’ in battle over new Bears domed stadium”
"Friends of the Parks is 'prepared to fight for the lakefront' but not ready to say if that will mean mounting a legal challenge...
WBEZ: What’s That Building? Robert Franks Memorial
"May 21 is the 100th anniversary of a brutal murder in Chicago that attracted the world’s attention. Two affluent and educated young men killed...