LOSS: “Spotlight on Demolition” July 2021

5100 N. Kedzie Avenue, Albany Park
5642 N. Ashland Avenue, Edgewater
9241 S. Damen Avenue, Beverly
6719 S. Marshfield Avenue, West Englewood
3714 N. Wayne Avenue, Southport
3752 N. Claremont Avenue, St. Ben’s
6150 S. Artesian Avenue, Gage Park
817 N. Rockwell Street, Smith Park
1224 W. Cornelia Avenue, Lake View
1755 W. Cornelia Avenue, Roscoe Village
3840 W. Cornelia Avenue, Irving Park
2143 N. Racine Avenue, Lincoln Park
2051 N. Clifton Avenue, Sheffield Neighbors
4026 N. Campbell Avenue, Horner Park
5935 S. Princeton Avenue, Englewood
1536 S. Ridgeway Avenue, Lawndale
7835 S. Marquette Avenue, South Shore

“It’s an old, common cry in a city where demolition and development are often spoken in the same breath, and where trying to save historic homes from the wrecking ball can feel as futile as trying to stop the snow. My Twitter feed teems with beautiful houses doomed to vanish in the time it takes to say ‘bulldozed.’ Bungalows, two-flats, three-flats, greystones, workers’ cottages. The photos, posted by people who lament the death of Chicago’s tangible past, flit through my social media feed like a parade of the condemned en route to the guillotine,” mused Mary Schmich in her Chicago Tribune column on July 12, 2018.