PRESERVATION CHICAGO https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html West Loop Industrial Lofts – 2021 Most Endangered THREATENED: Promontory Point – “It’s not just the limestone that people are trying to save, but the way it has come to be a part of the community’s life and nature.” (Chicago 7 2022) Chicago Tribune: Whiskey Point, Slag Valley and Black Bottom: Chicago’s ‘layers upon layers’ of forgotten neighborhood names WIN: Rusnak Brothers Store Adaptive Reuse for Auburn Gresham Healthy Lifestyle Hub Complete Driehaus Museum Presents Capturing Louis Sullivan: What Richard Nickel Saw August 26, 2022 to February 19, 2023 PETITION: Let’s Landmark Bowen High School in South Chicago! THREATENED: Concrete Block Building Erected Without Permits Across from Humboldt Park Stables WIN: Pioneer Arcade Receives Final Chicago Landmark Approval as part of Adaptive Reuse Plan (Chicago 7 2015) Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Pullman’s Hotel Florence Deserves a Chance to Welcome Guests Again THREATENED: Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church Listed For Sale Hyde Park Herald: A walk through Woodlawn’s past and present Richard H. Driehaus Museum Presents “Glass to Garden: Tiffany Inspired Floral Designs” WIN: City of Chicago Announces $8.23M of Adopt-a-Landmarking Funding for the Restoration of 13 Designated Chicago Landmarks POTENTIAL WIN: After Many Delays, Hollander Storage Building Adaptive Reuse Moving Forward Again THREATENED: Schulze Baking Company Building, a 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered THREATENED: All of Mankind Mural / Stranger’s Home Missionary Baptist Church, a 2024 Chicago 7 Most Endangered THREATENED: 120-year-old Jackson Park Pavilion Sits as a Park District Ruin (Chicago 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021) Driehaus Museum presents “Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature” May 16, 2025 to August 17, 2025 POTENTIAL WIN: Rapid Response Advocacy Campaign to Landmark Pope Leo’s Childhood Church Gains Traction LOSS: Eamus Catuli Building at 3633 Sheffield Avenue Historic Building Across From Wrigley Field Demolished BUYER WANTED: After Being Moved 29 Feet For the Red Line Extension, CTA Seeks Buyer for the Vautravers Building Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago by Will Quam WIN: After Roger Brown House Receives Final Landmark Recommendation, Developer Plans Gut Rehab WIN: After Decades of Delays, Developers Secure $3 Million City Grant to Adaptively Reuse Grace’s Furniture Building 90-Day Demolition Delay: 2965 N. Lincoln Ave., Lake View 90-Day Demolition Delay: 1939 N. Larrabee St., Lincoln Park. Photo credit: Google Maps CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: The Last Barrel of Schlitz in Chicago Is Tapped at Glunz Tavern at 1201 N. Wells Street in Old Town, While Forty-One Schlitz Tied Houses Still Stand Across the City CHICAGO LEGACY BUSINESS: Lou Mitchell’s, The First Stop on America’s Mother Road, Celebrates 103 Years in the Loop 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: Surge Billiards Opens in the Ornate Former Grocery Store at 1734 W. Chicago Avenue in East Village with the Historic Facade Retained Image Surge Billiards in West Town,1734 W. Chicago Avenue prior to renovation. Photo credit: Google Maps WIN: Riverwalk Reconstruction and New Dining Completed at the Chicago Landmark 1914 Reid Murdoch Building at 325 N. LaSalle Street in River North WIN: Chicago Landmark Plaques Installed at the c.1856 Phebe and John Gray House at 4362 W. Grace Street, the Oldest Residence in Old Irving Park THREATENED: The 1888 “Big Jim” O’Leary Mansion at 726 W. Garfield Boulevard in Englewood Is Vacant, Boarded, and Headed to Demolition Court THREATENED: Years of Unpermitted Alterations Continue at the 1874 Wacker House at 1838 N. Lincoln Park West in the Old Town Triangle District WIN: Renovation Permit Issued for the Adaptive Reuse of the Former Precious Blood Church and School at 2401 W. Congress Parkway POTENTIAL WIN: Residential Adaptive Reuse Moves Forward for the 1918 Illinois Bell Telephone Company Building at 3601 W. Cortland Street in Logan Square POTENTIAL WIN: Adaptive Reuse Proposed for the Vacant Milshire Hotel at 2525 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square, with the Historic Neon Sign to Be Restored THREATENED: The 1940 Art Deco Mann Furniture Building at 6130 N. Broadway in Edgewater, Home of the Broadway Antique Market, Is Listed for Sale as a Redevelopment Opportunity THREATENED: Full Building Permit Issued for 4006 N. Sheridan Road New Construction as Demolition Permits Remain Pending for the Ornate Terra Cotta Holiday Club Building (Terra Cotta: Chicago 7 2023) WIN: The 400 Theater in Rogers Park Reopens After Three Year Closure WIN: Portage Theater Foundation Launches a $3 Million Restoration Campaign with Marquee Repairs Beginning and a Reopening Targeted Within a Year (Chicago 7 2012) WIN: Restoration of the 1907 Sears Sunken Garden Pergola Is Back on Track in North Lawndale with Additional Driehaus Foundation Funding 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: Adaptive Reuse of the Chicago Landmark Immaculata High School Moves Forward at 640 W. Irving Park Road THREATENED: Loyola University Proposes Demolition of the Former St. Ignatius School and Andrew Rebori Designed Gymnasium and Auditorium from 1931 WIN: The 1897 Charles Warrington Earle School at 6121 S. Hermitage Avenue in West Englewood Reopens as 50 Units of Affordable Housing After Twelve Years Vacant WIN: University of Chicago Selects Steven Holl Architects and JLK Architects for the Renewal of the 1916 Ida Noyes Hall at 1212 E. 59th Street in Hyde Park THREATENED: Foreclosure and Lost Financing Stall the Redevelopment of the Landmark Pioneer Trust & Savings Bank Building at 4000 W. North Avenue in Humboldt Park WIN: Vintage Loft Leahy Building at 226 W. Ontario Street in River North Sold for Conversion to 70 Apartments Home