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This week, we're taking another visit back to our childhood stomping grounds on the Northwest side. But we're going way back, waaayyy back to 1917. Our father's side of the family immigrated to America from Greece four years earlier, settling in Greektown. Our mother's side of the family was at least a decade away from moving to the East Village from Virginia. The photo you're looking at at the top of this entry is...

For the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, the answer is simple: put down the blowtorch. This year, two high-profile historic buildings have been destroyed by torch-related accidents. The Pilgrim Baptist Church, a centenarian Adler and Sullivan beauty, smoldered in January, and just a few weeks ago, scrap workers accidentally torched the Wirt Dexter Building using the same tool. The LPC calls for new laws restricting such cutting and welding operations at historic sites. Beyond these...

A group known as Gospel Music Capitol of the World Productions wants the City of Chicago to purchase and restore the Chicago Defender building and use it to house an International Gospel Museum. (We know this might be the pot calling the kettle black, but shouldn’t that be Gospel Music C-A-P-I-T-A-L Of The World Productions?) The release cites a recent Chicago Sun-Times article that quotes David Bahlman, president of the former Landmarks Preservation Council of...

Earlier this year, Chicagoist wondered if 2006 would be a bad year for architecture. Well, it’s not getting much better. The Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois released its annual list of the state’s 10 most-endangered historic places today, and this year, there’s 11. The Pilgrim Baptist Church received a “special 11th designation because of the challenging nature of its proposed preservation plans.”

Southeastern Chicago, at its peak, used to employee about 200,000 people in steel mills and industries related to steel. People from all over the world flocked here for the well paying jobs.. and now? The industry is gone, but not the buildings.

Since 1989, 404 homes have been razed in Glencoe, including dozens considered to be historically significant. A 150-year-old Dundee Road home--the village's oldest--was leveled two years ago.

Continue reading "For $1,345,000, You Can Buy a Glencoe Landmark"

Chicago historians and architecture buffs who are in a rage over the impending demolition of Cook County Hospital will be happy to know that the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the historic site to its 11 Most Endangered Historic Places of 2004 list. Well, not happy per-se, but psyched for the backup. Cook County Hospital (handy map) was built in 1913 and was home to the first blood bank in the world in...