Everybody knows, especially at this season of the year, it’s a bad idea to look a gift horse in the mouth. But what if he opens it? What if he flashes you a great big horsey smile? And you just can’t look away fast enough? I’m asking because we got a wonderful gift last week, […]
Tag: Landmarks Illinois
Posted inOn Culture
Fred Hampton is having a moment
If you’ve seen Judas and the Black Messiah, the multiple-award-winning film about the 1969 murder of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton, you’ve got a picture in your head of the 4:30 AM raid in which a drugged and sleeping Hampton was killed by a barrage of police bullets. The raid was carried out […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Helmut Jahn is gone, and the Thompson Center is for sale
Can we save his most important Chicago building?
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Rethinking public art with the Chicago Monuments Project
With 41 pieces flagged as potentially problematic, the city seeks input about next steps.
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When preservation gets prickly
Neighbors want to save Ken Nordine’s Edgewater mansion; if he could still talk to us, he might not agree.
Posted inArts & Culture
Endangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building
Endangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building
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Amazon won’t save the Thompson Center, but Nathan Eddy might
The Berlin-based documentary filmmaker hopes to rescue a building in danger of destruction.
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Illinois Film Tour will bring independent films, resources to communities statewide
The new initiative, cocurated by IFP Chicago and Full Spectrum Features through a grant from Illinois Humanities, is committed to starting conversations about social issues and elevating diverse filmmakers.
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Illinois’s most endangered historic places are largely owned by broke cities
A majority of structures on Landmarks Illinois’s annual list are owned by cities or institutions operating on tight budgets, thanks to the state budget crisis and the slow economic recovery.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Old Town’s historic West Burton Place may soon have an alien intruder
A Victorian three-flat on historic West Burton Place faces demolition unless the city designates the unique street a historic district.
Posted inArts & Culture
A vanity plate for the Chicago Cultural Center?
Do we need another building named for a Daley? A new City Council proposal would give us one.
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Prentice suit amended, but not as judge intended?
Prentice preservationists aren’t giving up; they filed an amended lawsuit this week.
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“Whose idea was this?”
A judge’s dismissal of the Prentice preservationists’ case leaves a window open.
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Court date set in battle to save Prentice: January 11
The battle to save Prentice finally has a day in court
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More famous architects call for Prentice preservation; NU continues to press phony ultimatum
More Pritzker Prize-winning architects join the call to save Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Hospital; Commission on Landmarks gets agenda request for September 6