2022 Year-in-Review
WIN: Greater Union Baptist Church Receives Preliminary Chicago Landmark Recommendation
Greater Union Baptist Church Chicago Landmark Designation Report, December 2022
WIN: Historic 1928 Parking Garage To Be Adaptively Reused for Residential
What’s that building? The Medallion; Built almost a century ago as a six-story parking garage, the structure is being turned into a 72-unit apartment...
WIN: Congress Theater Redevelopment Plan Heading for City Council Approval
Congress Theater Redevelopment Moves A Step Closer To Getting $20 Million Boost From City; Local developer Baum Revision is pursuing a $70.4 million restoration...
WIN: Shuttered Overton Elementary School to be Adaptively Reused as Community Center and Washington Park Streets and Sanitation Building to Become Culinary Incubator
Closed Bronzeville School Overhaul Among City-Funded Projects To Boost Entrepreneurship On South Side; A culinary incubator, a sustainable commercial center and a community hub...
WIN: Renovated Patio Theater Energized by Live Music and Performances
After A Pandemic Slump, Portage Park’s Patio Theater Ready To Create Its Next Chapter; The owner has renovated parts of the old theater since...
WIN: Former West Pullman School Wins Driehaus Foundation Adaptive Reuse Award
Elementary School Shuttered During 2013 Mass Closings Transformed Into Senior Housing — But The Chalkboards Remain; The former West Pullman Elementary School now provides...
WIN: South Chicago YMCA to be Renovated for Affordable Senior Housing
South Chicago Celebrates Preservation, Restoration and Reopening of Community Asset, Chicago Defender, 12/21/21Closed South Chicago YMCA Set For Revival With $26 Million Renovation Of...
WIN: Rapid Roller Printing Building to Become Affordable Residential Lofts
Solar-powered apartments proposed on Near South Side; If a zoning change is approved, the vacant South Federal Street factory building would be redeveloped as...
WIN: Humboldt Park Methodist Church to be Adaptively Reused as Affordable Housing With Federal Funds
Plan To Convert Logan Square Church Into Affordable Housing Gets $2 Million Boost
LUCHA was awarded funds from Congress that will be used to convert...
WIN: Historic Studebaker Theater Reopens After Two-Year Renovation
Tucked inside Fine Arts Building on South Michigan Avenue, a 125-year-old theater is reborn
Workers are putting finishing touches on a multimillion-dollar renovation of the...