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The restaurant relocated, but the loss of its longtime building closes a distinct chapter in the commercial life surrounding the Belmont elevated station.
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An Indiana historical marker at Fifteenth and Madison keeps a demolished school in public view as a place where educational innovation, immigration, Black migration,...
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The former Glen Park high school site shows how a celebrated civic institution can move from neighborhood anchor to closure, hazardous vacancy, demolition, and...
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The slow dismantling salvaged heavy timber and brick but erased one of the West Loop's remaining nineteenth-century loft buildings before a new use for...
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A congregation's move from an underused historic campus opened a prominent Ravenswood corner to low-density redevelopment and erased architecture associated with one of Chicago's...
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A glass-block-fronted commercial building disappeared as a utility assembled most of the surrounding block, leaving the purpose of the cleared land unresolved.
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The loss of Lake County's first hospital turned a century-old health-care block into downtown development land while a retained building begins a very different...
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One of suburban Cook County's largest institutional landscapes is being reduced to a small group of retained structures while the county asks the public...
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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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Designed under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, the former post office later housed the Journal & Topics newspaper and is being cleared for a...
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The plaza at Blackhawk Drive and Indianwood Boulevard is becoming an open redevelopment site, shifting the preservation question from building reuse to what follows...
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