Chicago Landmark and Landmark District Designation Reports

Every Chicago Landmark designation report, in one place

A designation report is the document the Commission on Chicago Landmarks publishes when a building or district is designated. It sets out what the building is, who built it, what happened to it, and which of its features the designation protects. Preservation Chicago has collected them all, digitized what was missing, read every page so that it can be searched, and published them as ChicagoLandmarkReports.org — free to use, with no account and no advertising.

428 Chicago Landmarks and 70 Landmark Districts, 482 of them with their designation report. The reports are full-text searchable to the page.

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Proposed designations

Recommended by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks and not yet passed by the City Council.

  • 104th Place District — 1712, 1724 and 1736 W. 104th Place
  • Hotel LaSalle Garage — 215 W. Washington St.
  • Lilydale Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 10706 S. Michigan Ave.
  • McClurg Building — 218 S. Wabash Ave.
  • Old St. Patrick's Church and Rectory — 700 W. Adams St.
  • Ravenswood Club Building (now Paul Revere Masonic Lodge) — 1521 W. Wilson Ave.

All designated Chicago Landmarks and Landmark Districts

Each name links to its page on Chicago Landmark Reports, where the designation report can be read, searched and downloaded.

Maintained by Preservation Chicago. Reports are served from Preservation Chicago’s own archive; this page is generated from the collection, so it stays in step with it.