LOSS: “Spotlight on Demolition” Oct. 2021

• McNitt Building, 5652 N. Broadway, Edgewater
• 1300 W. Randolph Street, Fulton Market
• 2238 N. Burling Street, Lincoln Park
• 4863 N. Ashland Avenue, Sheridan Park
• 3854 N. Claremont Avenue, North-Center
• 2832 W. Polk St, Tri-Taylor
• 5116 S. Wood Street, Sherman Park
• 741 W. 50th Place, Sherman Park
• 6434 S. Morgan Street, Englewood
• 1221 W. Cornelia Avenue, Lakeview
• 7245 W. Lunt Avenue, Edison Park
• 1743 W. Le Moyne Street, Wicker Park
• 1508 W. Wrightwood Avenue, Wrightwood
• 3854 N. Claremont Ave., North-Center
• 2418 N. Burling Street, Lincoln Park
• 2422 N. Burling Street, Lincoln Park
• 3752 N. Francisco Avenue, Irving Park
• 1143 W. Altgeld Street, DePaul

“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.