PRESERVATION CHICAGO https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html BUYER WANTED: Al Capone’s Banker’s House at 8844 S. Pleasant Avenue in Beverly Listed For Sale BUYER WANTED: City of Chicago Issues Request for Proposals for 1936 Art Deco Police Station at 1940 W. Foster Avenue, Lincoln Square CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: Lou Mitchell’s, The First Stop on America’s Mother Road, Celebrates 103 Years in the Loop 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: Sky Ride Tap Faces an Uncertain Future (Chicago 7 2016 & 2026) THREATENED: Years of Unpermitted Alterations Have Compromised the Wacker House in the Old Town Triangle Historic District THREATENED: Another Lake View Greystone Faces Demolition at 3619 N. Magnolia Avenue While Neighbors and Preservation Chicago Advance a Newport Avenue Landmark District LOSS: Demolition Permits Issued for the Torstenson Glass Company Building, a 135-Year-Old Chicago Legacy Business, at 3233 N. Sheffield Avenue in Lake View WIN: City Council Approves $1.55 Million in TIF Funding for The Workshop, the Adaptive Reuse of a 1921 Building at 3741 W. Lawrence Avenue in Albany Park WIN: After Decades of Delays, Developers Secure $3 Million City Grant to Adaptively Reuse Grace’s Furniture Building POTENTIAL WIN: Dwight Perkins-Designed James H. Bowen High School at 2710 E. 89th Street Recommended for National Register of Historic Places WIN: The 400 Theater in Rogers Park Reopens After Three Year Closure SUN-TIMES COLUMN: A Victorian Bandstand Gets Ready for an Encore While Jackson Park’s Golden Lady Gets New Clothes WIN: Glass Atrium Work Begins at Humboldt Park’s Historic Stable and Receptory Building as National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture Earns National Accreditation WIN: Old DePaul University Loop Office Tower at 70 E. Lake Street Sold for Residential Adaptive Reuse THREATENED: Loyola University Proposes Demolition of the Former St. Ignatius School and Andrew Rebori Designed Gymnasium and Auditorium from 1931 LOSS: A Rare 1875 Post-Chicago Fire Building Demolished at 107 E. Oak Street WIN: Rector Building’s Iconic Weather Bell Sign is Restored at 79 W. Monroe St. WIN: Adaptive Reuse Planned for McKinlock Building at 209 W. Jackson Boulevard WIN: Vintage Loft Leahy Building at 226 W. Ontario Street in River North Sold for Conversion to 70 Apartments WIN: Owner Albert Friedman Plans the Next Adaptive Reuse of the Landmarked 1912 Medinah Temple as Bally’s Prepares to Move Out Support Chicago Legacy Businesses Guide to Chicago Legacy Businesses WIN: Commission on Chicago Landmarks Grants Final Landmark Recommendation to Edgewater’s Bryn Mawr Historic District and Denies Demolition Permit for Contributing Building at 1114 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue PETITION: STOP the Demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room! WIN: After Preliminary Landmark Designation, ZBA Approves Conversion of William Le Baron Jenney’s 1893 Central YMCA Headquarters at 19 S. LaSalle Street THREATENED: Permit Review Committee Approves Data Center Conversion of the Chicago Landmark Office Building at 300 W. Adams Street WIN: Initial Indicators from the “Google Effect” Confirm Substantial Benefits to the Loop (Chicago 7 2016, 2018, 2019 & 2020) WIN: City Council Approves Landmark Designation and Renovation of Up Top Building at Altgeld Gardens (Chicago 7 2017 & 2022) LOSS: DePaul University Demolishes the Sheffield-Belden Group for Practice Gym (Chicago 7 2024) WIN: City Council Designates Holabird & Root’s 1929 Chicago Daily News Building at 2 N. Riverside Plaza a Chicago Landmark (Chicago 7 2008) WIN: Ongoing Media Coverage Generates Awareness Regarding the Challenge and Vision of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Chicago 7 2026) WIN: Austin Coming Together Acquires Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1903 J.J. Walser House and Launches a Restoration Campaign (Chicago 7 2025) PETITION: Save the Pope’s Church! PETITION: STOP the Demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room! Header Template 19 – City News Footer – Makeup Shop (2) Month-in-Review Newsletter The Skyscraper and The White City: The Genius and the Tragedy of John Wellborn Root by Gerald R. Larson THREATENED: Chicago’s Jewish History Is Hiding in Plain Sight: Chicago Loop Synagogue (Chicago 7 2026) WIN: The Hand & The Eye $50 Million Adaptive Reuse of the 1895 McCormick Mansion Opens to Acclaim Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable Edited by George Papamattheakis Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago by Will Quam LOSS: Demolition Permit Issued for the 1951 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America Building at 2800 N. Sheridan Road (Chicago 7 2026) Doorways of Chicago by Ronnie Frey Hole in St. Mary of the Assumption Roof Repaired Just Prior to Pope Leo XIV Pilgrimage Tour Friday, May 8, 2026 THREATENED: The Need to Restart Stalled Restoration of the Uptown Theatre Highlighted During Rep. Mike Quigley Event Neighborhood Meeting: Preservation Chicago Assists Neighbors’ Effort to Create Newport Landmark District Excellent Conversation at the Driehaus Museum “Shaping the City: Civic Leadership in Gilded Age Chicago” Panel Discussion on June 6, 2026 Home