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demolition-update
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Gary moves from a ruins garden to demolition at City Methodist
The RDA is seeking a contractor to demolish City Methodist and the former St. Mary's Hospital, shifting the church from unresolved landmark to impending loss.
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Stone Medical Center enters its final weeks on Sheridan Road
The building will be lost, while the developer says Egon Weiner's paired Brotherhood Monument sculptures will be preserved and relocated.
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Ann Sather’s Belmont building disappears, but the restaurant moves on
The business survives at other addresses, but demolition removes the physical setting that tied Ann Sather to generations of Belmont Avenue street life.
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Loyola demolishes a 1926 flatiron of apartments and arts spaces
The demolition at 1224 West Loyola erased a triangular neighborhood marker, existing housing, and small cultural-commercial rooms in one institutional land decision.
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A century of shelter use gives way to proposed Wrigleyville parking
The Grace Street site is now a loss record linking more than a century of social service to the expanding land footprint of Wrigley Field parking.
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Demolition delay ends for DePaul-owned Sheffield Avenue residence
The brief hold at 2316 North Sheffield shows the limited leverage of demolition delay after a larger institutional development plan has secured approval.
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Des Plaines loses its 1941 post office to a delayed apartment project
The former post office at Graceland and Webford came down in June after an approved mixed-use project stalled for two years. A six-story replacement is planned.
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Park Forest clears Blackhawk Tower Plaza before a replacement is known
Blackhawk Tower Plaza entered demolition on June 1 after years of vacancy and deferred maintenance. The next test is whether site clearance produces reinvestment or another long period without active use.