Highly Successful Preservation Chicago 2019 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Announcement and Presentation Wednesday, February 27, 2019

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1730 — A Full House at the Preservation Chicago 2019 Chicago 7 Most Endangered announcement, February 27, Photo Credit: Preservation Chicago

Ward Miller presents the Preservation Chicago 2019 Chicago 7 Most Endangered at Chicago Architecture Center, February 27, Photo Credit: Preservation Chicago

Preservation Chicago announcement and presentation of 2019 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” on February 27, 2019 was highly successful with a full capacity audience of approximately 140. The Presentation was held at noon at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Gand Lecture Hall, 111 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago.

Press reporting has been robust with the following coverage in days following the event.

Column: ‘This year’s threats were so extensive’: Preservation Chicago lists 9 endangered buildings, up from the usual 7, Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 2/27/19

These are Chicago’s most endangered buildings of 2019: Preservationists identified nine threatened sites on the city’s North, West, and South sides, Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago, 2/27/19

Preservation Chicago’s 2019 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Announced, Eric Allix Rogers, Chicago Patterns, 2/27/19

Catholic Churches Among Preservation Chicago’s Annual ‘Most Endangered’ Buildings List;The 2019 list also includes Jackson Park, a super chic part of O’Hare that would make flying less horrible, and a power station, among others. Patty Wetli, Block Club Chicago, 2/27/19

These 9 landmarks are in danger, preservation group warns; Threats to the city’s landmarks are “so extensive,” Preservation Chicago announced, that it expanded its annual list of endangered places to nine from the usual seven, Dennis Rodkin, Crain’s Chicago Business, 2/27/19

Preservation Chicago’s seven most endangered historic buildings, plus two Jackson Park and Thompson Center are holdovers from 2018, Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 2/28/29

Familiar Names on Preservation Chicago’s 2019 Most Endangered Buildings List, Erica Gunderson, WTTW Chicago, 2/28/19

Historic Austin building lands on ‘endangered list’: Austin’s Laramie State Bank among Preservation Chicago’s ‘7 Most Endangered Buildings’ of 2019, Michael Romain, 3/4/1

Chicago’s most endangered buildings announced by preservation group, ABC7Chicago WLS, 2/27/19

Thompson Center Listed As One Of Nine ‘Endangered’ Structures In Chicago, CBS, 2/27/19

Thompson Center, Neighborhood Churches Among Endangered Sites, Bob Roberts, WBBM News Radio, 2/27/19