What kind of God allows a church to burn down on Good Friday? That’s the question that came to mind when the 130-year-old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church at Stewart and 63rd Street went up in flames earlier this month, followed by a familiar answer: the same god that has allowed slavery, Holocaust, plague, war, and […]
Tag: Preservation Chicago
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Thompson Center survival is glad tidings
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, […]
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The verdict on Chicago’s endangered Thompson Center is imminent
Trudging east on Randolph toward the Siskel Center on a gloomy, COVID-depopulated early evening last week, I heard something that stopped me in my tracks: “Mom, mom, what’s that building?” I turned to see the source. A boy of ten or so was pulling at his mother’s arm as they walked south on Clark. With […]
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Helmut Jahn is gone, and the Thompson Center is for sale
Can we save his most important Chicago building?
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Is this library politics?
A new building filled with social service and education amenities at Altgeld Gardens is a test case for the limits of design and architecture.
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The Obama Center: opening in 2025
But Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.
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Chicago’s seven “most endangered” buildings
Preservation Chicago releases its 2020 list.
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Endangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building
Endangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building
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Jackson Park and Thompson Center lead Preservation Chicago’s annual list of the city’s seven most-endangered architectural treasures
Jackson Park is the designated site of the Obama Presidential Library.
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Shootings and homicides in Englewood on pace to reach record lows in 2017, and other Chicago news
Also, local preservationists want landmark designation for Emmett Till’s Woodlawn home.
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Jackson Park, 20th-century public sculpture show up on Preservation Chicago’s annual Seven Most Endangered Buildings list
Preservation Chicago’s 2017 list of endangered structures also includes the Union Station Power House and Altgeld Gardens.
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Tear down McCormick Place East for the Lucas Museum? Not so fast
Rahm Emanuel’s new idea for the Lucas Museum will run into its own objections.
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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.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 11/19: Vanishing Neighborhoods, Movie Trivia Night!, and MGMT
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, November 19
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Next on the hit list: Edo Belli’s Cuneo Hospital complex
Edo Belli’s mid-20th-century Cuneo Hospital complex is headed for destruction.