Preservation Chicago Hosts Successful Chicago 7 Most Endangered 2025 Coach Tour

Guests assembled at main entrance to the Williams Building prior to Preservation Chicago’s 2025 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Coach Bus Tour, Saturday, September 6. Image credit: Preservation Chicago
Guests exploring Preservation Chicago’s offices at the Williams Building prior to Preservation Chicago’s 2025 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Coach Bus Tour, Saturday, September 6. Image credit: Preservation Chicago
Guests exploring the Mary Ellen DeMatteo Library at Preservation Chicago’s offices at the Williams Building prior to Preservation Chicago’s 2025 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Coach Bus Tour, Saturday, September 6. Image credit: Preservation Chicago

Preservation Chicago hosted the Chicago 7 Most Endangered 2025 Coach Bus Tour Saturday, September 6, 2025. The coach bus tour led by Ward Miller, Jacob Kaplan (Preservation Chicago and Forgotten Chicago) and Patrick Steffes (Docomomo and Forgotten Chicago)

We toured all Preservation Chicago 2025 Chicago 7 Most Endangered

  1. The Delaware Building 1872-1874, Wheelock & Thomas, with 1889 addition by Julius Huber, 36 W. Randolph Street
  2. Clarence Darrow Memorial Bridge/Columbia Bridge 1880, Burnham and Root, in Jackson Park at 1766 Columbia Drive)
  3. Joseph Jacob (J.J.) Walser House 1903, Frank Lloyd Wright, 42 N. Central Avenue
  4. Olivet Baptist Church 1876, Wilcox and Miller, 3101 S. King Drive
  5. Central Manufacturing District Clock Tower 1917, Samuel Scott Joy, 2000 W. Pershing Road
  6. Western Boulevard Industrial Buildings 4200 to 4500 S. Western Boulevard
    4501 S. Western – O Cedar Corp
    4435 S. Western – Wheatland Tube
    4425 S. Western – Wheatland Tube / American Plumbing
    4401 S. Western – Wheatland Tube / Cold Part
    4335 S. Western – Kinsella Landscaping Building
    4311 S. Western – Whitney Ford
    4301 S. Western – Illinois Fibre Specialty C viii. 4235 S. Western – MK Cabinet Supply
  7. St. Martin’s Church 1895, Henry J. Schlacks, 5848 S. Princeton Avenue