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City to seek landmark status for a neo-Gothic hall on the De Paul University campus
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (646+ words) The city's landmarks commission will consider landmark status for Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont St. , in Lincoln Park. A 96-year-old Collegiate Gothic building on the De Paul University campus is being considered Thursday for preliminary landmark status. The city's landmarks commission will…...
Art Institute of Chicago reopens European design galleries after three-year renovation project
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (641+ words) The Art Institute of Chicago reopens its Eloise W. Martin Galleries on Friday after a redesign by Spanish firm Barozzi Veiga. After being closed for refurbishment since January 2024, the Art Institute of Chicago's 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century European design galleries will reopen Friday…...
Restoration starts on pergola at North Lawndale's historic Sears garden
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (699+ words) Workers from Berglund Construction use paint stripper to remove the old paint from the historic pergolas at the Sears Sunken Garden in North Lawndale. A faded Mediterranean Revival-styled pergola that is the main feature of a North Lawndale garden, created…...
Owners of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Oak Park home selling after nearly 27 years
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (613+ words) The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Oak Park, at 515 Fair Oaks Ave. , is up for sale with an asking price of $1. 9 million. The owners of a pioneering Frank Lloyd Wright home in Oak Park are hoping that the property's next…...
Will Art Institute expansion leave Louis Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange room in the cold?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (617+ words) The Chicago Stock Exchange trading floor has been both an exhibit and an event space at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1977. The old Chicago Stock Exchange Building trading room " Adler & Sullivan's gilded age space rescued from demolition 54 years ago…...
Former Chicago Daily News building could be in line for landmark status
2+ week, 3+ day ago (734+ words) The former Chicago Daily News building at 2 N. Riverside Plaza. The former Chicago Daily News building, an Art Deco knockout that has eluded landmark status for decades, will be recommended Thursday for the designation " opening the door for public subsidies to…...
Jackson Park's 'Gold Lady' could look like a million again, thanks to a planned restoration
2+ week, 4+ day ago (916+ words) Jackson Park's "Gold Lady," officially known as the Statue of the Republic, is in line for a $1 million makeover. On just the right morning, when things are crisp and clear enough, the sun rises over the lake and lights up…...
Work starts on the $1. 2 million restoration of landmark Pullman church's troubled but iconic bell tower
3+ week, 2+ day ago (647+ words) Scaffolding covers the tower of Greenstone United Methodist Church, 11211 S. St. Lawrence Ave. , in the Pullman National Historical Park. The city-funded $1. 2 million restoration of the crumbling bell tower of Pullman's historic 144-year-old Greenstone United Methodist Church is now set to begin…...
What's the big idea? If you've got it, World Business Chicago wants to know
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (515+ words) Chicago business leaders are seeking big design ideas that can transform the city. Wanted: The next Millennium Park. Or maybe, tomorrow's version of the Lakeshore East development. Anything big, bold and transformational. The city's influential economic development organization, World Business…...
An architecturally important West Side church gets blessed by the National Trust
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (20+ words) Chicago Sun-Times Why are we asking for donations?...