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- THREATENED: 2nd Christian Science Church Declines Purchase Offer from Major Chicago Foundation to Fully Restore and Convert to Lincoln Park Community Cultural Arts Center
- WIN: Stone Temple Baptist Church Receives Federal Grant
- WIN: Like a Phoenix Rising, Roof Truss Installation Begins at The Shrine
- THREATENED: Thousands of Archeological Artifacts Discovered in Jackson Park at Proposed Obama Center Site (Chicago 7 2017 & 2018)
- LIKELY LOSS: Orange Rated Crawford Plant Receives Demolition Permit After ONE Day! (Chicago 7 2014)
- LOSS: Woodruff Arcade Demolished! (Chicago 7 2018)
- THREATENED: Washington Park Substation Added to 90-Day Demolition Delay List (Chicago 7 2018)
- LOSS: Belmont Flyover Demolition Underway
- WIN: St. Boniface Adaptive Reuse Moving Forward
- THREATENED: Washington Park National Bank Faces Uncertain Future (Chicago 7 2016)
- WIN: Church of the Epiphany's Conversion to an Art Center Receives City Approval
- THREATENED: Temptation Chocolates Terra Cotta Removal Demolition Permit Delay Extended to 180 Days
- PARTIAL: Morton Salt Building Demolished. Historic Stainless Steel Panels to be Repurposing
- WIN: Graeme Stewart School Conversion to Apartments Complete
- THREATENED: Let's Restore the Uptown Theatre Petition Receives over 10,000 Signatures!
- John Vinci: Life and Landmarks at Glessner House, Wednesday, May 16, 2018
- Strong Attendance and Excellent Media Coverage for 2018 "Chicago 7 Most Endangered" List Press Conference
- Jackson Park, Midway Plaisance, South Shore Cultural Center
- James R. Thompson Center / State of Illinois Building
- William Rainey Harper High School
- Washington Park Substation / Gaitan Building
- Brick Paved Streets and Alleys
- Woodruff Arcade Building
- Hotel Guyon
- Chicago Union Station
- WIN: Cook County Hospital to be Saved and Adaptively Reused (Chicago 7 2003 and 2004)
- WIN: Chicago Tribune Building to Be Converted to Residential
- URGENT THREAT: Slight Chance for 11th Hour Facade Save from Burnham Designed Chicago Machinery Building!
- THREATENED: Temptation Chocolates Building Risks Removal of Exterior Terra Cotta!
- WIN: Olson Brothers Rug Factory/former Marshall Field’s Warehouse to be Converted to Mixed Uses
- WIN: Former Chicago & North Western Railway Company Building Goes Residential
- Partial WIN: Morton Salt Building to be Demolished, but Historic Stainless Steel Panels to be be Reused.
- LOSS: Carbit Paints Building Demolished
- LOSS: South Side Masonic Temple Demolished (Chicago 7 2007 and 2015)
- Partial WIN: 1920’s era Ukrainian Dairy/Leona’s Building Facade to Be Saved
- WIN: Art Moderne Bronzeville Church to Receive $228K of Restoration Adopt-a-Landmark Funding
- WIN: City Issues Request for Proposals for Two Central Manufacturing District Buildings (Chicago 7 2014)
- WIN: Morton Salt Warehouse to be Saved and Adaptively Reused as Salt District Mixed-Use Redevelopment
- THREATENED: Uptown Theatre Petition Approaching 10,000 Signatures!
- THREATENED: Time is Running Out to Save the Woodruff Arcade! Please sign the Petition.
- Potentially THREATENED: Washington Park National Bank Building Redevelopment Initiative (Chicago 7 2016) Workshops February 6 and February 20
- Possible Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thematic Chicago Landmark District discussed during Ward Miller interview at DuSable Museum on Dr. King's Birthday
- Design Dialogues: Building Up Bronzeville February 13 at Chicago Architecture Foundation
- Preservation Chicago to announce the 2018 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered Buildings” Wednesday, February 28, at Noon
- WIN: Historic Berwyn Avenue Greystone Saved through Community Organizing Advocacy!
- WIN: Daniel O. Hill House/Serbian American Club Saved through Community Organizing Advocacy!
- WIN: Successful Outcome for Lathrop Homes (Chicago 7 2007 and 2013)
- WIN: Old Main Chicago Post Office Landmarked!
- WIN: A Bright Future for Century and Consumers Buildings (Chicago 7 2011 and 2013)
- WIN: Celebrations for Uptown Square Landmark District Approval
- WIN: Church of the Epiphany to be Converted to Performing Arts Space
- WIN: Clarendon Park Community Center Renovation Announced (Chicago 7 2015)
- WIN: IIT Main Building Restoration and Renovation Underway (Chicago 7 2015)
- WIN: Agudas Achim Uptown Synagogue Adaptive Reuse Underway (Chicago 7 2015)
- WIN: Congress Theater Renovation Underway
- WIN: Johnson Publishing Building to Receive Landmark Designation
- WIN: Residential Conversion of Loop Hartman Building/Bennett Brothers Building
- WIN: Bush Temple of Music Celebrates Project Completion
- WIN: Art Deco Lawson House YMCA to be Fully Renovated
- WIN: Mark Twain Hotel Renovation
- WIN: Rosenwald Court / Michigan Boulevard Apartments Landmarked! (Chicago 7 2007) Landmarks Commission Honors Chicago’s Best Preservation Projects of 2017
- WIN: David Adler Lincoln Park Landmark Looking For Preservation Buyer
- WIN: Historic Loop Insurance Center Building to be Converted to Apartments
- WIN: Old Cedar Hotel Reborn as Viceroy Chicago
- WIN: Historic Quincy 'L' Station On Track for Landmark Designation
- WIN: Unity Temple Completes Magnificent Restoration!
- WIN: DuSable Museum Roundhouse Opens with Temporary Exhibits
- WIN: Adaptive Reuse of Sears/Homan Square Catalog Printing Building Complete!
- WIN: Sullivanesque “Jewel Laundry” Building Redevelopment Receives Alderman’s Support
- WIN: The Return of Andersonville's Beloved Swedish Flag Water Tower
- WIN: Redevelopment of Former Children’s Memorial Hospital Site Breaks Ground. (Chicago 7 2011 and 2016)
- WIN: Masonic Temple/American Indian Center Adaptive Reuse
- WIN: 140-Year Old Hermon Baptist Church Saved
- WIN: Church of the Advent to be Landmarked into Logan Boulevards Extension District
- WIN: After Devastating Fire, Mulligan School Adaptive Reuse Complete
- LOSS: New Chapter for Lincoln-Montana Building “Sullivanesque” Terra Cotta
- URGENTLY THREATENED: Demolition Permit Released for D.H. Burnham & Company’s Chicago Machinery Building
- LOSS: Orange-Rated Seng Building Released from 90 Day Demo Delay after Six Days
- LOSS: South Side Masonic Temple to be Demolished (Chicago 7 2007 and 2015)
- LOSS: Morgan Park 115th Street Metra Station Destroyed by Fire
- LOSS: Emergency Demolition Order for Ashland Sixty-Third State Historic Bank Building
- LOSS: Demolition of Malcolm X College
- LOSS: St. Angela Church Demolition
- LOSS: Fulton Market Grain Elevator Demolition Permit Issued To Clear Site for Redevelopment
- LOSS: Chicago’s Last Remaining Stable Demolished
- THREATENED: Olmsted's Jackson Park, Midway Plaisance, and South Shore Cultural Center Threatened by Obama Presidential Center (Chicago 7 2017)
- THREATENED: Lincoln Park Second Christian Science Church To Be Closed. Preservation Chicago Advocates for Cultural Center Use.
- TBD: Planned Gospel Museum would Save Historic Walls of Pilgrim Baptist Church
- THREATENED: North Avenue Carbit Paint Building Receives Demolition Permit.
- TBD: Preservation Chicago’s Suggestion to Landmark Emmett Till’s Home Covered Nationally
- THREATENED: Landmark Laramie State Bank at Risk
- THREATENED: Mid-Century Modern Morton Salt Headquarters Building to be Demolished
- THREATENED: Orange-Rated Hanson Park Field House Released from 90-Day Demo Delay after Two Days!
- THREATENED: Let’s Restore the UPTOWN THEATRE!
- THREATENED: Save the Woodruff Arcade Petition
- THREATENED: Urgent Concern for Long-Vacant Hyde Park Church
- THREATENED: Demolition Risk for Paul Revere Masonic Temple
- THREATENED: Lawrence Avenue Sears Store Redevelopment Risk (Chicago 7 2016)
- THREATENED: Proposed High-Rise at Superior and Wabash Rejected, but Superior Street Row Houses Remain Endangered
- THREATENED: Union Station Tower Addition Redevelopment Proposed
- THREATENED: La Lucé Building/Schlitz Tied House Demolition Looms
- THREATENED: Old Town Triangle Landmark District Alarmed by Continued Loss of Historic Homes
- THREATENED: Future unknown for St. Martin’s on the Dan Ryan
- Preservation Chicago Advocating for Lincoln Park Cultural Center at Second Church of Christ, Scientist
- Preservation Chicago’s Suggestion to Landmark Emmett Till’s Home Covered Nationally
- Landmark Laramie State Bank at Risk
- Demolition Permit Released for D.H. Burnham & Company’s Chicago Machinery Building
- Sullivanesque “Jewel Laundry” Building Redevelopment Receives Alderman’s Support
- Mid-Century Modern Morton Salt Headquarters Building to be Demolished
- Emergency Demolition Order for Historic Bank Building
- Urgent Concern for Long-Vacant Hyde Park Church
- Bush Temple of Music Celebrates Project Completion
- St. Angela Church Demolition Looms
- Obama Presidential Center to Receive Federal Review
- Let’s Restore the UPTOWN THEATRE Petition!
- Save the Woodruff Arcade Petition
- Mid-Century Bank Threatened with Demolition
- Ward Miller Explores “The Development of the Skyscraper in Chicago” at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference in Chicago
- Indow Sponsors Celebration for Preservation Chicago and the Rust Belt Coalition of Young Preservationists
- Historic Greystone at 1463 Berwyn Avenue Saved!
- Preservation Outcome for Lathrop Homes
- Old Main Chicago Post Office Landmarked!
- Orange-Rated Chicago Machinery Building by D.H. Burnham & Company Targeted with Demolition
- Demolition Risk for Paul Revere Masonic Temple
- Lawrence Avenue Sears Store Redevelopment Risk
- Hartman/Bennett Brothers Building Redevelopment Underway
- Congress Theater Renovation Moving Forward
- Let’s Restore the UPTOWN THEATRE Petition!
- Mark Twain Hotel Renovation
- Masonic Temple/American Indian Center Conversion
- Landmarks Commission Honors Chicago’s Best 2017 Historic Preservation Projects
- Preservation Chicago Celebration Success!
- Ward Miller Explores “The Development of the Skyscraper in Chicago” at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference in Chicago
- If you value preservation in Chicago...Please support Preservation Chicago!
- CALL FOR 2018 NOMINATIONS for Preservation Chicago 7 Most Endangered Buildings List
- Let’s Restore the UPTOWN THEATRE!
- Clarendon Park Community Center Renovation Announced!
- The Emergence, Demolition, and Preservation of Italianate Cottages and Flats By John Morris, Chicago Patterns
- Preservation Chicago's Suggestions for Landmarks
- Hanson Park Field House Released from 90-Day Demolition Delay after Two Days!
- Lincoln Park Landmark Looking For Preservation Buyer
- Vote to Win Grant for Hyde Park Cable Car Building
- Preservation Chicago Celebration at KAM Isaiah Israel, Sunday, October 15, 2017
- Open House Chicago: OCTOBER 14-15, 2017
- Chicago Architecture Biennial, Through January 7, 2018
- National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference
- John Vinci: Life and Landmarks Reception
- A New Hope for Historic Berwyn Ave Greystone
- Daniel O. Hill House Saved!
- Old Main Chicago Post Office to Replace Windows...all 2404 of them!
- Orange-Rated Seng Building Released from 90 Day Demo Delay...After Six Days!
- Orange-Rated West Loop Industrial Building Targeted with Demolition
- Historic Loop Office Building to be Converted to Apartments
- Church of the Epiphany to be Converted to Performing Arts Space
- Weyland Building Compromise in Question?
- Let's Restore the UPTOWN THEATRE!
- Save the Woodruff Arcade Petition
- Upcoming Event: Chicago Architecture Biennial
- Upcoming Event: Driehaus Foundation 2017 Built Environment Symposium
- Upcoming Event: Open House Chicago
- Upcoming Event: National Trust Conference in Chicago
- 2017 Chicago 7 Union Station Power House Poster Now Available
- Old Cedar Hotel Reborn as Viceroy Chicago
- Lincoln Montana Building Ornament Enters New Chapter
- Why Save the South Shore Sanctuary? A Photo Essay by Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns
- Historic Quincy 'L' Station On Track For Landmark Designation
- Morgan Park 115th Street Metra Station Fire
- Fulton Market Grain Elevator to be Sold for Redevelopment
- Unity Temple Restoration Complete!
- Sears Catalog Printing Building Adaptive Reuse Complete!
- Let's Restore the UPTOWN THEATRE!
- Woodruff Arcade Petition
- Andersonville's Beloved Swedish Flag Water Tower Returns
- Preservation Chicago Hosts Iraqi Archeological Delegation
- 2017 Chicago Citywide Adopt-A-Landmark Fund Applications Due August 15!
- 2017 Chicago 7 Union Station Power House Poster Now Available
- Historic Berwyn Ave Greystone Remains Endangered
- Obama Presidential Center Update
- Chicago's Early Skyscrapers Nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Let's Restore the UPTOWN THEATRE!
- After 90 years, St. John Berchmans Bell To Ring Again
- Woodruff Arcade Threatened with Demolition
- "Jewel Laundry" Building Redevelopment Proposed
- New Hope for Long-Vacant Hyde Park Churches
- Mulligan School Adaptive Reuse Complete
- Landmark Motley School Permit Granted
- Preservation Chicago 2017 Chicago 7 Coach Tour Proves Great Success!
- A Bright Future for Century and Consumers Buildings
- Unveiled Obama Presidential Library Design in Jackson Park to be Located on Site of World's Columbian Exposition Woman's Building
- Union Station Redevelopment Proposed
- Preservation Chicago 2017 Chicago 7 Coach Tour...SOLD OUT!
- Rapid Response Advocacy Saves Historic Berwyn Ave Two-Flat!
- Aldermen Propose Demo Fee to Discourage Tear-Downs Near The 606/Bloomingdale Trail
- "Beautiful 19th Century Homes on Borrowed Time", a fascinating and troubling analysis by John Morris, ChicagoPatterns.com
- Shrine in "People Saving Places" Video Series!
- Redevelopment of Former Children's Memorial Hospital Site Breaks Ground
- Art Deco Lawson House YMCA to be Fully Renovated
- Lifetime Achievements of Charles G. Staples Honored by Mayor Emanuel
- Chicago's Last Remaining Stable Demolished
- La Lucé Building Demolition Looms
- Preservation Chicago's 2017 "Chicago 7 Most Endangered" Coach Tour
- Historic CTA Quincy Loop Elevated Station Renovation Underway
- Landmark Toolkit Presentation Well Received by Lincoln Park Community Group
- Serbian American Club Withdraws Demolition Permit Application Fearing Aldermanic Support for Landmark Protection
- Proposed High-Rise at Superior and Wabash Rejected, but Superior Street Row Houses Remain Endangered by New Development Possibility.
- 140-Year Old Hermon Baptist Church Saved!
- Future Unknown for St. Martin's on the Dan Ryan
- Chicago Public Schools Proposes to Close Historic Harper High School
- Chicago Public School Reverses Direction and Sells School Building for School Use
- Highly Successful "House with the Keyhole Windows" Preservation Circle Event Explored Past, Present and Future of the Gold Coast and Dearborn Parkway
- Chicago Architecture Foundation Opens "On the Edge" Exhibit
- Preservation Chicago's 2017 "Chicago 7 Most Endangered" Announcement Proves A Success
- Calder's The Universe Sculpture at Willis Tower Disassembled With Future Unknown
- RFP Issued for Century Building and Consumers Building on South State Street
- Alderman Tunney Signals Support for the Landmarking the Serbian American Museum & Club St Sava
- The East Superior Block of 1880's Row Houses Threatened with Demolition Reinforces Need for McCormickville/Cathedral Landmark District
- Restoration of the Old Post Office's Historic Art Deco Lobby Underway
- "House with the Keyhole Windows" Preservation Circle Event in April
- A Rooftop Water Tank is Saved!
- Historic Medic Building Art Deco Façade Promised to be Reused...Vanishes!
- Johnson Publishing Building to Receive Chicago Landmark Designation!
- New Video from Save the Shrine!
- National Trust for Historic Preservation Chicago Field Office Job Opportunity
- Ward Miller, Preservation Chicago's Executive Director, was Featured Speaker at Annual Hyde Park Historical Society Dinner
- Landmark Lincoln Park Community Group Advocates for Landmark District to Protect Endangered Lincoln Park Historic Buildings
- Preservation Chicago 2017 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Buildings Announcement: March 1st
- Serbian American Club Resubmits Demolition Permit, Preservation Chicago Calls for Lake View Landmark District
- Old Town Triangle Alarmed by Continued Loss of Historic Homes to Demolition
- IIT Main Building Restoration and Renovation to Begin
- 2017 Chicago 7 Most Endangered Press Conference, March 1st at Noon!
- Demo Threat for Historic Gold Coast East Superior Block of 1870's Italianate Row Houses
- Building Court Orders Pilgrim Baptist Church to Relocate Scaffolding
- "McCormickville" Landmark District Needed to Save Threatened Gold Coast Buildings
- Celebrating Uptown Square Landmark District's City Council Approval!
- Ward Miller, Preservation Chicago's Executive Director is the Featured Speaker at Annual Hyde Park Historical Society Dinner
- CALL FOR 2017 NOMINATIONS for Preservation Chicago 7 Most Endangered Buildings
- Strong Preservation Advocacy Effort Pushes Serbian American Club to Withdraw Demo Permit Application
- Demolition Feared for Historic Leland and Sheridan Building in Uptown
- Final Chapter in Effort to Save Historic Cuneo Hospital
- Wicker Park Celebrates The Robey Boutique Hotel in Northwest Tower
- Preservation Chicago Objects to Potential Loss of Essex Inn Historic Rooftop Signage
- Partial Victory to Preserve Historic Weyland Building at 1970 N. Milwaukee Ave.
- Demo of Hyde Park Historic Home on Woodlawn Avenue Reinforces Urgent Need for "Woodlawn Avenue Corridor Landmark District"
- Long-Neglected Women’s Lounge in Union Station Reopens after Full Restoration
- Partial Victory for 1920’s era Ukrainian Dairy/Leona’s Building
- Fast-Track Preliminary Landmark Designation Might Save Serbian American Museum from Demolition
- Essex Inn to be Landmarked Prior to Comprehensive Renovation
- Preservation Chicago Working to Halt Demo Permit for Pilgrim Baptist Church/KAM Synagogue
- 800 People Celebrate St. Boniface Save
- Interior and Exterior Landmark Designation Likely for Historic Trumbull School
- Urgent Threat: Demolition Permit Request for Historic Lakeview Mansion
- St. Boniface Saved!
- Call For Nominations: 2016 Chicago 7
- St. John UCC In Jeopardy
- Stone Temple Baptist Deserves Landmark Status
- Save St Gelasius/Shrine of Christ the King
- Pioneer Arcade May See Adaptive Reuse
- 2016 Chicago 7 Announced March 2
- St Gelasius/Shrine of Christ the King Saved
- IIT's Main Building Converting To Housing
- David Adler Rowhouses Heading to Landmarks
- Good News For Pilsen's St. Adalbert
- 2016 Chicago 7 Most Threatened Buildings
- David Adler Rowhouses In Landmarks
- Cornell Store & Flats Out of Demolition Court
- St. Boniface At Court Tomorrow
- St. Adalbert Update
- St. Boniface Gets More Time
- CPS' Shuttered Motley School In Landmarks
- St. Boniface In Court June 8
- Essex Inn Earns Preliminary Landmark Status
- Uptown's Agudas Achim Synagogue Saved!
- 325 W. Fullerton Pkwy In Danger
- Update: Religious Buildings In Danger
- Gold Coast Cottage Endangered
- Chicago 7 Bus Tour July 9
- Lakeview's David Alder Rowhouses At Landmarks
- Chicago 7 Bus Tour A Success
- Lincoln Park West District Should Be Considered
- Hope Remains For St. Boniface
- Lathrop's Latest Plans Include More Preservation
- 'Eagles Building' To See Façade Removed, Reinstalled
- Jensen's Church of the Advent Closes in Logan Square
- New York Life Adaptive Reuse: The Grey
- Shrine of Christ the King Raises $1.46 Million
- Open House Chicago Oct. 15 and 16
- St. Boniface Saved!