2022 Year-in-Review
WIN: Central Camera Reopens After Devastating Fire
Central Camera Reopens 122-Year-Old Loop Shop After 2020 Fire, Looting: ‘I’m So Happy This Place Is Still Here’; The store was destroyed in May...
WIN: Henry B. Clarke House / Bishop Ford House to Begin $1 Million Renovation
City mulls ways to honor Bishop Ford’s protection of historic house; In 1941, the influential Black pastor saved an 1836 Greek Revival house from...
WIN: Standard Club’s Great Chicago Fire Murals by Edgar Miller to be Loaned to Art Institute
Standard Club artwork headed for Art Institute; Edgar Miller's Great Chicago Fire panels will go on loan and may stay there if the club...
WIN: Muddy Waters MOJO Museum Momentum Finally Overcomes Delays with Approval to Buy Adjacent Vacant Lot and City of Chicago Restoration Grants
Muddy Waters Museum Plans To Add Outdoor Garden For Live Blues Performances; The North Kenwood museum is in talks to buy an adjacent vacant...
WIN: Original Decorative Cast Iron Window Elements from 1899 Donated to Illinois Railway Museum
Preservation Chicago and The St. Jude League Building/The Williams Building at 205 W. Monroe donated 16 large, original cast iron window mullions on July...
WIN: U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary Shannon Estenoz Visits Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Home and Roberts Temple Church
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz Tours Civil Rights Sites in Illinois; Affirms Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to telling America’s story
WIN: Emmett Till Home Awarded $150K grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and $250,000 Adopt-a-Landmark Renovation...
Emmett Till Home gets $150K grant for Blacks in Green project, Herald Staff Report, Hyde Park Herald, 7/26/22
WIN: In Partnership with Preservation Chicago, Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative Completes Surveys in Logan Square, McKinley Park and South Chicago
See the full survey results at Chicago Workers Cottage InitiativeCataloging and Celebrating the Workers Cottage, One of Chicago’s Original Affordable Homes, Nick Blumberg, WTTW Chicago,...
WIN: The Forum Receives $1 Million Restoration Grant from Andrew M. Mellon Foundation
Bronzeville’s The Forum Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Arts And Culture Hub In Historic Building; The grant from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation...
WIN: Commission on Chicago Landmarks Recognizes and Celebrates the Best Chicago Preservation Projects of 2022
"The Commission on Chicago Landmarks honored eight successful development projects and seven advocacy leaders at the 2022 Preservation Excellence Awards."The Preservation Excellence awards have...