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Eric Allix Rogers
February 28, 2018
![Jackson Park [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]](http://chicagopatterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ericallixrogers-chgo7-2-900x598.jpg)
Jackson Park [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]
At noon on Wednesday, February 28, Preservation Chicago released its annual Chicago 7 list of most endangered buildings. Each year for the past 15 years, the local historic preservation advocacy organization has used this list to draw the public’s attention to threatened elements of Chicago’s built environment. Whether they face specific and urgent threats, or longer-term and more diffuse ones, failing to preserve these places would erase important parts of Chicago’s history and harm the distinctive and celebrated built environment of the city.
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John Morris
August 13, 2017
1000 W. Monroe, in March of this year [John Morris]
Almost a year ago
a plan was unveiled for the corner of Monroe and Morgan in West Loop. It featured 12 luxury residences with a parking spot for each unit, and called for replacing a 6 unit building constructed in 1889.
Last week, demolition began on these 19th century twin Italianate three-flats to make way for the new condo building.
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Gabriel X. Michael
April 12, 2016
154 – 166 North Jefferson Street, viewing northwest. [Gabriel X. Michael/Chicago Patterns]
My last work on Chicago Patterns looked at
“post-Fire” commercial buildings in Chicago’s downtown area erected in the aftermath of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. But a recent
demolition permit led me to discover an alternate side of the catastrophe: a company’s former factory headquarters west of the Chicago River which avoided the Fire, stepped up and tirelessly restored the city’s damaged water supply, and still stands today.
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