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Chicago Patterns Staff
January 3, 2018
1436 W. Berwyn faced demo, but now owned by preservation-minded buyer [John Morris/Chicago Patterns]
2017 brought the usual bag of heartbreaking losses in Chicago’s housing and building stock, but there are several notable wins too. In our annual retrospective of historic preservation, many themes of years past continue: 19th-century Italianate homes and flats in hot neighborhoods are replaced with new construction, one-of-a-kind landmarks in or near the city center are lost in the name of progress, and demolition by neglect continues.
As the race to capitalize on this current real estate cycle continues, landmark status is often the only effective tool to preserve historically important structures. Preservation-minded real estate buyers also continue to affect real change in preservation efforts.
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Chicago Patterns Staff
December 30, 2015
![357 West Locust Street - St. Dominic’s Catholic Church. [John Morris/Chicago Patterns]](http://chicagopatterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dominic-900x600.jpg)
St. Dominic’s Catholic Church was demolished in 2015. [John Morris/Chicago Patterns]
Whether by neglect or new development, Chicago lost several historic or architecturally important structures in 2015.
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