Cities change. As Chicago is a city and most certainly not exempt from this immutable law, I can tell you that Chicago will change in some fashion by the time you finish reading this piece. By the time you finish this sentence a family might have packed up their belongings in Chatham to relocate to […]
Tag: preservation
Posted inCity Life
In praise of sweat and preservation
It’s time to let our hands remember what our ancestors knew.
Posted inNews & Politics
The long death of Jean Lalime
A classic tale of Chicago corruption, and also of rabbinical law, frontier justice, and the city’s first murder
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Meet the city’s new arts initiatives—and add your two cents’ worth
But our mayor is in a category of his own.
Posted inNews & Politics
The fight to preserve a model public housing project
Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.
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.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Next on the hit list: Edo Belli’s Cuneo Hospital complex
Edo Belli’s mid-20th-century Cuneo Hospital complex is headed for destruction.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Curtains for the Uptown Hull House Center theater
An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.
Posted inNews & Politics
An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan’s surface
An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan’s surface: the Silver Spray shipwreck
Posted inColumns & Opinion
“Whose idea was this?”
A judge’s dismissal of the Prentice preservationists’ case leaves a window open.
Posted inBlogs
The Brand Brewing complex: To raze or not to raze?
The historic Brand Brewing buildings on Elston may be demolished soon to make way for a Hhgregg store.
Posted inNews & Politics
Michael Reese Hospital: The First Sacrificial Lamb
Preservationists’ battle over the Michael Reese Hospital campus is just a taste of how the Olympics will drive public policy if Chicago wins the games.
Posted inBlogs
Pre$$$ervation in Chicago
Is it OK to skin a designated city landmark, erect a parking garage, and tack the skin back on?
Posted inNews & Politics
Rogue Gallery
Twelve years ago the Martinez brothers decided to establish a Latino museum. Now their money’s spent, ethnic rivalries are flaring, and the Park District wants its building back.
Posted inNews & Politics
Bury My Heart at Lot 23
One of the state’s most important historic and archaeological sites is about to become a “private year-round residential/vacation community.”