PRESERVATION CHICAGO https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: Skyway Lanes Closes as Hundreds Say Goodbye to Chicago’s Last Black-Owned Bowling Alley Preservation Chicago’s 21st Birthday Old-School Happy Hour at the Sky Ride Tap October 21, 2022 THREATENED: Chicago’s Jewish History Is Hiding in Plain Sight: Chicago Loop Synagogue (Chicago 7 2026) THREATENED: Permit Review Committee Approves Data Center Conversion of the Chicago Landmark Office Building at 300 W. Adams Street, Days Before Mayor Johnson Called for a Citywide Data Center Moratorium WIN: One of the Largest Terra Cotta Restorations in the Country Is Underway at the 1927 Pittsfield Building at 55 E. Washington Street WIN: Leasing Underway at The Bellwether, the Adaptive Reuse of the Landmark 1905 Rector Building at 79 W. Monroe Street, as the Iconic Weather Bell Returns THREATENED: Aldermen Move to Rescind the Chicago Landmark Status of the 1902 Cortland Street Drawbridge at 1440 W. Cortland Street (Chicago 7 2026) Preservation Chicago Featured in Crain’s Chicago Business Giving Guide 2024 “From Impossible to Inevitable, Preservation Chicago Catalyzes Change” Op-ed: Transform McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center into a recreational center that would serve all (Chicago 7 2016 & 2021) BUYER WANTED: Neglected Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Waller Rowhouse Listed For Sale BUYER WANTED: Green Mill and Green Mill Building For Sale BUYER WANTED: Landmark King-Nash Home by George Maher at 3234 W. Washington Blvd. Listed For Sale The Delaware Building Clarence Darrow Memorial Bridge, a 2025 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Olivet Baptist Church Central Manufacturing District Clock Tower, a 2025 Chicago 7 Most Endangered St. Martin’s de Tours Church Ogden Keeler Industrial Buildings, a 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Sheffield-Belden Group, a 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Roseland Michigan Avenue Commercial District – 2020 Most Endangered James R. Thompson Center / State of Illinois Building – 2020 Most Endangered Central Park Theater – Most Endangered 2022 Terra Cotta Buildings Throughout Chicago, a 2023 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Taft Hall at UIC – 2023 Most Endangered The Century and Consumers Buildings, a 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Schulze Baking Company Building, a 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Roman Catholic Churches – 2021 Most Endangered Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home – 2021 Most Endangered The Architecture of Chicago’s Beverly Hills / Morgan Park By Mati Maldre Doorways of Chicago by Ronnie Frey Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago by Will Quam Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable Edited by George Papamattheakis The Skyscraper and The White City: The Genius and the Tragedy of John Wellborn Root by Gerald R. Larson PETITION: STOP the Demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room! PETITION: Save the Pope’s Church! WIN: Austin Coming Together Acquires Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1903 J.J. Walser House and Launches a Restoration Campaign (Chicago 7 2025) WIN: Ongoing Media Coverage Generates Awareness Regarding the Challenge and Vision of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Chicago 7 2026) WIN: City Council Approved Landmark and Class L for Holabird & Root’s 1929 Chicago Daily News Building at 2 N. Riverside Plaza (Chicago 7 2008) LOSS: DePaul University Demolishes the Sheffield-Belden Group for Practice Gym (Chicago 7 2024) WIN: City Council Approves Landmark Designation and Renovation of Up Top Building at Altgeld Gardens (Chicago 7 2017 & 2022) CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: Sky Ride Tap Faces an Uncertain Future (Chicago 7 2016 & 2026) CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: Italian Village Restaurants Adds Café Pisolino Espresso Bar, Continuing 99 Years of Family Legacy at 71 W. Monroe Street, Downtown CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: Lou Mitchell’s, The First Stop on America’s Mother Road, Celebrates 103 Years in the Loop BUYER WANTED: City of Chicago Issues Request for Proposals for 1936 Art Deco Police Station at 1940 W. Foster Avenue, Lincoln Square BUYER WANTED: Al Capone’s Banker’s House at 8844 S. Pleasant Avenue in Beverly Listed For Sale WGN Radio — “Advocating for Chicago’s Historic Architecture and Preserving History” Interview of Ward Miller and Warren Strovel By Steve Dale Lt. Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker: On America’s 250th Anniversary, Chicago Needs More Stewards To Preserve Its Story WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? Promontory Point WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? Jackson Park Bathing Pavilion at 63rd Street Beach Home