home

 about us  online store  download forms  join us

 

 

 

   Search LPCI

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

  
 

Photo: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Map

  
     
     
 

Main Post Office
Congress Expressway at Canal, Chicago

 

Straddling the expressway, the former Main Post Office has been vacant since 1998, when the U.S. Postal Service constructed its new facility only blocks away. The massive, 2.4 million square-foot Art Deco structure was built between 1921 and 1934 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

Designed by Graham Anderson Probst & White, the Post Office has presented reuse challenges which are still, seven years later, unresolved. A new proposal calls for the demolition of the majority of the west façade. This building appeared on LPCI’s statewide endangered Ten Most List in 1997.

  
 

 

 

  What Can I Do? Please write to the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, urging it to accept a redevelopment proposal that does not demolish the highly visible west façade of this Art Moderne masterpiece. Denise Casalino is DPD’s Commissioner; her address is City Hall, Room 1000, 121 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60601.

 

 

 

  
     

 

 

 

Landmarks Illinois
Suite 1315
53 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604 
tel. 312-922-1742 
fax 312-922-8112

 

 

home                top                  help                 sitemap                 farnsworth    house                email us  

 

 

© 2007 Landmarks Illinois. All rights reserved. In addition to the copyright to this collective work, copyright to the materials which appear on this site may be held by the individual authors or others. Landmarks Illinois is a
tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1971 and is the state's leading voice for historic preservation.