2023 Year-in-Review

THREATENED: Logan Square SOM-Designed Blue Line Station Threatened With Replacement

Meet The Women Who Built Logan Square; We assembled a small list of little known women who have made a lasting impact on...

THREATENED: Happy Wash Terra Cotta Building Threatened with Demolition

5-Story Apartment Building Coming To Wilson Avenue In Uptown After Developers’ Third Try Gets Approved; The development will bring 28 apartments and 25 parking...

THREATENED: Code Issues Prevent Great Lakes Elks Lodge / Panorama Theater From Reopening

The venue will go into receivership and shut for good without the necessary funding, Resident Advisor, 9/27/23 House veteran Craig Loftis needs help...

THREATENED: Ornate Terra Cotta Holiday Club Building Threatened with Demolition

Holiday Club's Fate Uncertain As Its Longtime Uptown Home Could Become 7-Story Apartment Building; The popular bar is hoping there is room for...

THREATENED: Sale of United Electrical Workers Union Hall Endangers Mural

Near West Side union hall’s sale could mean ‘heartbreaking’ destruction of historic union-themed mural; Completed in 1974 by Chicago artists John Pitman Weber and...

THREATENED: Benedictine Sisters’ St. Scholastica Monastery to be Closed and Sold

Benedictine Sisters Selling West Ridge Campus, Their Home For Nearly 120 Years; The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago have lived on a sprawling West Ridge...

THREATENED: Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church Complex Listed For Sale

Bronzeville’s Historic Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church For Sale As Preservationists Race To Landmark It; A group led by current parishioners and Preservation Chicago...

THREATENED: After Foreclosure Sale, Future Unknown for St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Church – Little Flower Church

Landmark status for historic West Side church should be first step of many to preserve houses of worship; Greater Union Baptist Church is poised...

THREATENED: Schulze Baking Company Data Center Adaptive Reuse Stalled Since 2018

Data centers keep coming, but not all deals will compute; After a record year for leasing in the sector, three sites in Chicago have...

THREATENED: Demolition Threat for Western Felt Works at 4029-4117 W. Ogden Ave

Western Felt Works, est. 1899, History from the Made in Chicago Museum