Year-in-Review Archive
IN MEMORIAM: Pauline Saliga, 1953-2022
Pauline Saliga, former executive director of Society of Architectural Historians, dies, Obituary by Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 10/14/22Obituary: Pauline Saliga (1953–2022), Society of Architectural...
IN MEMORIAM: Harold Lucas; Bronzeville Preservationist, Organizer, Activist, and Historian
Harold Lucas, Bronzeville organizer, activist, historian, dead at 79, lauded as a champion; 'As you walk and drive around Bronzeville, Harold’s works are everywhere,'...
IN MEMORIAM: Bob Boin, 1946-2022 Uptown Theatre Restoration Advocate
Uptown Theatre Community Mourns Longtime Volunteer And Restoration Advocate Bob Boin; Bob Boin devoted the last three decades of his life to reviving the...
POTENTIAL WIN: City Requests Proposals for Pershing Road Central Manufacturing District Warehouses With Adaptive Reuse Focus (Chicago 7 2020)
City Pitches Historic Warehouse Redevelopment Again, Justin Kerr, McKinley Park News, 9/16/22Want to redevelop a massive warehouse in McKinley Park? The city is asking...
WIN: City Approves Conversion of Cameron Building Into Manufacturing Incubator
Public money powers manufacturing incubator mHUB’s growth; Move to the Kinzie Industrial Corridor on the Near West Side planned with $17.6 million in tax...
POTENTIAL WIN: Grace’s Furniture Building Could Reopen as Logan Square Athletic Club
Logan Square Athletic Club Could Be Coming To Grace’s Furniture Building After Long-Awaited Boutique Hotel Plan Scrapped; New plans have emerged for the long-vacant...
WIN: Revised Hollander Warehouse Building Adaptive Reuse Moving Forward
Revised plan proposed for Hollander Building, The building at 2422 N. Milwaukee will be rehabbed into apartments, Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago, 9/6/22
WIN: 7 Acre Former Locomotive Headlight Factory Renovated into The Terminal Innovation Center
Speculation and imagination mingle at Humboldt Park project; Developers invest in an industrial site’s turnaround and hope savvy tenants will buy into the vision...
WIN: Spared From Demolition, Washington Park National Bank Plan Now Includes Façade Preservation! (Chicago 7 2016 & 2020)
Developer adapts, and an investment in Woodlawn gets new life, Reconsidering plans during COVID-19’s business lull, Leon Walker of DL3 Realty has agreed to...
PARTIAL WIN: After Rejecting Community Performance Arts Center Proposal Which Would Have Restored Interior and Dome, Second Church of Christ, Scientist Development Will At...
Tony Lincoln Park projects show the rich are all right; Whatever else is happening in the city or with its housing market, demand powers...