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Architecture follows the formal, material, and authorial decisions that shape buildings, campuses, districts, and industrial sites across the library.
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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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Enrollment decline and projected deficits ended more than seventy years of education at the Evergreen Park school, while the future of its folded-plate-roof building...
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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 prominent mixed-use anchor is caught between serious life-safety failures, repeated code enforcement, and the village's decision to pause demolition while its owner pursues...
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Known locally as Jackson Square, the polychrome terra-cotta warehouse remains standing while litigation tests the process behind La Grange's approval of a 39-unit replacement.
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UrbanStreet Group's July 2026 concept would adapt the six-story, roughly 360,000-square-foot atrium building and pair it with new residential construction.
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The Cary Station plan turns a former public-school and bus-transportation site into a TIF-supported residential district while retaining the property's educational history only through...
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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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