The Preservation Chicago 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered presentation was presented to a hybrid audience, both live in-person audience and a simultaneous virtual audience of approximately 400 people on March 6, 2023.

The in-person audience was comprised of reporters, funders, board members, preservation partners, staff and Chicago Architecture Center members at the Chicago Architecture Center’s Joan & Gary Gand Lecture Hall. We anticipate that this hybrid format, with live in-person audience and live virtual simulcast will become the standard moving forward as it allows maximum attendance and flexibility.

Ward Miller’s 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered presentation was fast-paced, information-packed, and engaging. Beautiful photos and embedded media made the presentation visually rich and compelling. For those who missed the live event, the entire one hour presentation was recorded and has been posted on Preservation Chicago’s website and YouTube channel.

The Chicago 7 Most Endangered 2024 reporting has been robust with coverage with many articles appearing in print, web, radio and television. This is media coverage is important as it powerfully amplifies the the message.

Since 2003, the ‘Chicago 7 Most Endangered’ has sounded the alarm on imminently threatened historic buildings and community assets in Chicago to mobilize the stakeholder support necessary to save them from demolition.

“Once a Chicago 7, always a Chicago 7,” until its saved or lost. See all past Chicago 7 at Preservation Chicago’s website.

“Despite seemingly impossible odds, the public interest generated by the Chicago 7, coupled with devoted advocacy, has resulted in a remarkable number of preservation victories over the 20+ years,” said Ward Miller, Executive Director of Preservation Chicago.

“The very identity of Chicago is tied to our historic buildings and the stories they tell,” said Eleanor Esser Gorski, CEO of the Chicago Architecture Center. “These are the architecturally and culturally significant structures and spaces that give our city its character. By partnering with Preservation Chicago, we’re spotlighting some of the most urgent issues facing our historic built environment today, and we are honored to host our friends for this much anticipated annual announcement.”

Founded in 2001, Preservation Chicago is a non-profit organization devoted to leveraging the power of Chicago’s historic built environment to create, nurture, and protect healthy, vibrant, diverse, and sustainable communities. From ‘lost cause’ to ‘celebrated landmark,’ Preservation Chicago has become a powerful agent of change and our impact continues to tangibly and significantly make Chicago a better city.

Read more at the 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered news coverage

• State Street skyscrapers hit top ranking on list of most endangered Chicago buildings; Preservation Chicago’s annual list starts with two early 20th century towers on State Street, holdovers from prior lists, and includes neighborhood sites with architectural or historic interest, David Roeder, Chicago Sun-Times, 3/6/24
• Century-old Loop towers top Preservation Chicago’s most endangered list for third year, joined by birthplace of Butternut bread and a Cabrini-Green mural, Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3/6/24
• Former Home of Butternut Bread, ‘Pride of the South Side’ and Whitewashed Mural All on Preservation Chicago’s 2024 ‘Most Endangered’ List, Patty Wetli, WTTW Chicago, 3/6/24  
• These are Chicago’s 7 most endangered places for 2024, Dennis Rodkin, Crain’s Chicago Business, 3/6/24
• What’s That Building? Northside Strangers Home Missionary Baptist Church; A coalition of former Cabrini-Green residents, entrepreneurs and preservationists wants to buy the building from its present owner and reopen it as Cabrini Art House, Dennis Rodkin, Crain’s Chicago Business, 3/18/24
• Here Are Chicago’s 7 Most Endangered Buildings; The buildings — including Downtown office towers, an Art Deco high school and a five-story bakery — face a variety of threats including fire damage, decades of divestment and looming redevelopment projects, Mack Liederman, Block Club Chicago, 3/6/24
• These are Chicago’s 7 Most Endangered Buildings in 2024; The Century and Consumers Buildings top the list for a second year, Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago, 3/8/24
• Preserved for Perpetuity: Preservation Chicago names its seven most endangered buildings of 2024, Daniel Roche, The Architect’s Newspaper, 3/11/24
• Preservation Chicago unveils 2024 list of endangered buildings, FOX 32 News Chicago, 3/6/24
• Preservation Chicago works to save 7 endangered city buildings, CBS 2 Chicago, 3/7/24
• Fire-damaged Swift Mansion among Chicago’s 7 most endangered buildings, NBC5 Chicago, 3/7/14
• Preservation group unveils latest list of ‘most endangered’ buildings in Chicago, WBBM Newsradio, 3/6/2024
• Preservation Chicago releases 2024 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” list, Elena Smentkowski, Chicago Star Media, 3/7/24
• Afternoon Edition: Chicago’s most endangered buildings, Matt Moore, Chicago Sun-Times, 3/6/24
• Chicago’s Architectural Treasures on Brink of Extinction, Says Preservation Group, Richard M. Sullivan, Hoodline, 3/7/24
• Preservation Chicago Names 2024 Most Endangered Buildings, Ray Pride, NewCity, 3.7.24
• The Preservation Chicago 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Social Media Video (1:15) 
• The Preservation Chicago 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Video (6:15) 
• The Preservation Chicago 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Full Presentation (66 minutes)