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Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags
Designated as a Chicago landmark on September 21, 2022. Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags works well as a public foothold for commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change.
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Quick Take
- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 2400-West Division ST & 2800 West Duvision St.
- Built: 1995.
- Architect: James R. DeStefano, John Adams, John Ed Windhorst.
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Why It Matters
Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags prevents commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change from floating free of the site itself.
That public anchor is what allows later work on ownership, alteration, neighborhood setting, and interpretation to build outward in a disciplined way.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags is held in public view at 2400-West Division ST & 2800 West Duvision St by the city's landmark record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1995 and credits James R. DeStefano, John Adams, John Ed Windhorst. It was designated on September 21, 2022. Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags gives researchers a way to connect commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change to one actual site.
Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags is best approached by paying attention to storefront depth, upper-floor expression, and corner treatment, how the facade addresses pedestrian traffic, and later signage, infill, or reuse. Those clues are often the clearest route into how commercial architecture stayed visible even as the economic life around it changed.
Research Starting Points
Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags opens next into trade press and city directories, permit files and assessor records, and historic photographs and newspaper coverage. That is where early landmark facts begin to connect to a fuller chronology of change, use, and interpretation.
Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags still needs permits, photographs, and comparison, but the landmark record gives that work a stable point of return.
Public Actions
Campaign / Petition Record
Ordered oldest to newest.
1995
Development
Construction period recorded in city landmark data
by Public record Previous
Chicago's public landmark data records Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags as built in 1995.
September 21, 2022
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags as an individual landmark on September 21, 2022.
February 2026
Inventory
City landmark address list and data portal record
by Public record Current
Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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Source Trail
City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
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Use for address, built date, architect, and point geometry in the city data portal.
Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
institution
Use for address normalization and cross-checking the city's public landmark list.
Place Snapshot
- Place
- Paseo Boricua Gateway Flags
- Location
- 2400-West Division ST & 2800 West Duvision St, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Commercial Building
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 2400-West Division ST & 2800 West Duvision St
- Built
- 1995
- Architect
- James R. DeStefano, John Adams, John Ed Windhorst
- Designated
- September 21, 2022
Design / Planning Timeline
James R. DeStefano, John Adams, John Ed Windhorst
1995
Milestone
Design architect or firm credited in current city landmark data
Use as a starting point for confirming authorship against permits, drawings, and later landmark reports.
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