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Chicago works as a place-based view into the library, connecting 584 published records that show how this locality changes across type, status, and theme within Illinois.
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Designed by Rudolph G. Wolff and opened in 1927, the Patio pairs a Spanish courtyard-inspired auditorium with a neighborhood commercial frontage in Portage Park.
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The 4,000-plus-seat Rapp & Rapp theater is both a landmark and an unresolved operating challenge at the center of Uptown's historic entertainment district.
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The new cultural complex adds performance rooms and a marquee to Broadway while raising a preservation question about reuse that retained a site and...
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Thirteen years after students left 1326 South Avers Avenue, boarded windows, damaged grounds, and stalled reuse turn a former community anchor into a case...
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Vacant since the 2013 school closures, the Congress Parkway building is moving toward reuse by Breakaway Community Development rather than another decade of institutional...
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Closed in 2013, the school at 2221 South Lawndale Avenue has carried community-reuse ambitions for a decade; the current disposition ties its future to...
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R. Bernard Kurzon's 30-unit flatiron building combined housing, neighborhood businesses, and arts spaces before university expansion erased the triangular landmark.
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A site that served women and children for more than a century is being converted from social-service infrastructure into a proposed expansion of the...
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A multi-family building near DePaul University illustrates the narrow reach of Chicago's 90-day demolition delay when demolition is already embedded in an approved planned...
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The pending removal of 3619 North Magnolia turns one teardown into a cumulative streetscape change on a block once defined by paired early-twentieth-century greystones.
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Once the shopping and organizing hub of Altgeld Gardens, the long-vacant Up Top Building is planned for restoration and expansion by By The Hand...
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A two-story addition and gut rehabilitation will return the three-story Leon Hotel to residential use while keeping its masonry street presence on North Clark...
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