The restored and renovated Clinton Street entry to the Union Station food court, formerly the fire-damaged Fred Harvey Restaurant. After being walled up since the 1980s, windows were restored and a new entry created. Designed by architects Graham, Anderson Probst & White, Union Station was completed in 1925.
Table of Contents
PETITIONS
- PARTIAL WIN: Over 20,000 Signatures for Thompson Center Petition
- WIN: Momentum Growing for Establishing New Black House Museums
- THREATENED: Lake View State Bank
ADVOCACY
- PARTIAL WIN: Thompson Center Vote for National Register Eligibility
- WIN: Thompson Center Rally
- WIN: Driehaus Museum Acquires Murphy Memorial Auditorium
- POTENTIAL WIN: Congress Theater
- THREATENED: Reebie Building Façade and TimeLine Theatre
- THREATENED: Southport Lanes
- WIN: Vautravers Building
- THREATENED: Promontory Point
- THREATENED: Jackson Park
- WIN: Morton Salt Complex
- WIN: Garfield Park Fieldhouse
- WIN: Carbide & Carbon Building Rooftop Bar
- THREATENED: Corpus Christi Catholic Church
- WIN: St. Hedwig Convent
- LOSS: St. Brendan Convent
- THREATENED: Cenacle Sisters Building
- THREATENED: Precedent for Reversing Landmark at Old Town Stable
- WIN: Wilson Men’s Hotel
- LOSS: New Construction Proposed at D.H. Burnham Building Site
- NEAR MISS: Bush Temple of Music Rooftop Fire
- WIN: Fannie May House
- WIN: Blair Mansion
- WIN: Kimbark Avenue Mansion
- PARTIAL WIN: Merrick-Culver House in Austin
- THREATENED: Chicago Sun-Times Letter: “I want to save a historic Chicago home. I’m up against developers who would rather raze it.”
- THREATENED: Loss of 2-, 3- & 4-Flats Threatens Housing Supply
- WIN: Eleanor Gorski to Lead Cook County Land Bank
- IN MEMORIAM: Richard H. Driehaus; Philanthropist and Preservationist
- THREATENED: Early Warning Signs
- THREATENED: 90-Day Demolition Delay Watch List
- LOSS: Spotlight on Demolition (83 demolitions in June 2021)
PRESERVATION IN THE NEWS
- WBEZ: Pursuit of Landmark Status For Thompson Center
- 2021 Chicago Prize Competition: James R. Thompson Center
- WTTW Chicago: Historic Hall in Chicago Cultural Center Restoration
- WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? The Henry Gerber House
- RADIO: Ward Miller interview on Thompson Center & Helmut Jahn
- PRINT: It’s ‘Insane’ Chicago Isn’t The Sweet Home Of A Blues Museum
- PRINT: Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative
- PRINT: Institute for Housing Studies: Patterns of Lost 2 to 4 Unit Buildings in Chicago
- PRINT: Place Economics: Missing Middle Housing: A Micro-Analysis
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
- “Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now” at MCA
- “Chicago: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)” at Chicago Cultural Center
- “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin & The Art of War” Pritzker Military Museum
- Society of Architectural Historians Book Sale – July 10, 2021
- Promontory Point Conservancy Clean & Green – July 18, 2021
- Hideout Trivia Night w/ Newberry & Chi History Museum – July 20, 2021
FILM
- Starship Chicago: Thompson Center: A Film by Nathan Eddy
- The Most Endangered Building in Chicago [Thompson Center]: A Video by Stewart Hicks
- Roseland’s South Michigan Avenue Commercial District: “The Avenue’s” Past, Present and Future
- Preservation Chicago Virtual Tour of the Arlington Deming Historic District
- Video Overview of the Preservation Chicago 2021 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” (3:48)
- Full Presentation of the Preservation Chicago 2021 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” (57 Minutes)
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