Year-in-Review Archive
WIN: Ton Farm Underground Railroad Site Receives Recognition with Illinois Historical Marker
Underground Railroad Site In Chicago Will Be Honored At Historic Dedication Ceremony Saturday; Jan and Aagje Ton Farm on the Southeast Side once provided...
WIN: AIA Chicago and Preservation Chicago Create “Early Chicago Skyscrapers” Video to Advance UNESCO World Heritage Site Designation Proposal
There is strong support to designate “Early Chicago Skyscrapers” as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A UNESCO World Heritage Site designation would further recognize...
WIN: Buyers of the Pre-Fire Bellinger Cottage are Delighted to be ‘moving into a place that has such a great story and so much...
Lincoln Park cottage that survived the Great Chicago Fire has new owners; Known as the Bellinger Cottage, the house that's part of Chicago's history...
WIN: Austin’s Pink House Dodges Demolition and Will Be Restored
Austin’s Iconic Pink House Isn’t Being Demolished — But It Won’t Be Pink Much Longer; Owners who bought the home last year are remodeling...
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