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PETITIONS
- WIN: Muddy Waters House Museum
- WIN: La Luce / Lake Street Schlitz Tied House
- THREATENED: Thompson Center
- THREATENED: Chicago Union Station Power House
- THREATENED: Lakeview State Bank
ADVOCACY
- THREATENED: Thompson Center Upzoning
- THREATENED: Jahn’s Passing Reignites Thompson Center Debate
- THREATENED: Pittsfield Building
- POTENTIAL WIN: Congress Theater
- WIN: The Forum
- WIN: Wilson Theater Building
- THREATENED: OPC Skyrockets Rents and Displaces Residents
- POTENTIAL WIN: Sears Building at Six Corners
- THREATENED: Cenacle Retreat House
- WIN: Pentecostal Church of Holiness, formerly Our Lady of Lourdes
- THREATENED: Chicago Loop Synagogue
- WIN: Historic Morse Avenue Building
- THREATENED: Loss of 2-, 3- & 4-Flats Threatens Housing Supply
- LOSS: The Demolition of Unprotected Pilsen Buildings
- THREATENED: Avondale Bungalow at 3840 W. Cornelia
- THREATENED: Merrick-Culver House in Austin
- LOSS: North Shore Dairy
- LOSS: Documenting the ADM Wheat Mill Demolition
- IN MEMORIAM: Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Helmut Jahn
- IN MEMORIAM: Remembering Architect Helmut Jahn and His Work
- IN MEMORIAM: Richard H. Driehaus; Philanthropist and Preservationist
- THREATENED: Early Warning Signs
- THREATENED: 90-Day Demolition Delay Watch List
- LOSS: Spotlight on Demolition (84 demolitions in May 2021)
PRESERVATION IN THE NEWS
- WTTW: Architecture of Chicago’s Christian Science Churches
- WTTW: Restoration of GAR Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center
- WBEZ: What’s That Building? Chicago Loop Synagogue
- RADIO: Ward Miller interview on Thompson Center & Helmut Jahn
- VIDEO: Chicago History Shorts from Dilla, The Urban Historian
- 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
- Pritzker Military Museum Presents “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin & The Art of War.” May 14, 2021 – Spring 2022
- Preservation Futures Seeks to Elevate the Social and Cultural History Embedded in Places and Spaces
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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