2011 Media Releases For Preservation Awards

Ancel House, Glencoe (10/21/2011 158KB)

Selected as the 2011 Restoration Preservation Award winner.

Champaign County Courthouse, Urbana (10/21/2011 156KB)

Selected as the 2011 Reconstruction Preservation Award winner.

Classic Cinemas (10/21/2011 154KB)

Selected as the 2011 Stewardship Preservation Award winner.

Clayville Restoration Project, Pleasant Plains  (10/21/2011 1157KB) 

Selected as the 2011 Advocacy Preservation Award winner.

Jay and Mary Matson, Galesburg (10/21/2011 159KB)

Selected as the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Preservation Award winner.

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Selected as the 2011 Restoration Preservation Award winner.

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Selected as the 2011 Adaptive Use Preservation Award winner.

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President Jim Peters to leave Landmarks Illinois

Jim Peters will leave his post as president and executive director of Landmarks Illinois at the end of October, Board Chairman Shelley Gorson announced today. Peters is leaving to consult and teach in the field of historic preservation.

Prentice Women’s Hospital Reuse Study

Landmarks Illinois, in late April 2011, issued a report that shows how the nearly-vacant former Prentice Women’s Hospital building can be reused, rather than demolished.

2011 Media Releases For Ten Most Endangered Historic Places

Landmarks Illinois, the state’s leading voice for historic preservation, announces a list of 10 sites in Illinois that are currently threatened.

Belleville Turner Hall (4/6/2011 124KB)

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Bolivia Road Bridge (4/6/2011 123KB)

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Iannelli Home and Studio (4/6/2011 124KB)

Four sites selected for the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

New Regal Theater  (4/6/2011 123KB) 

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Prentice Women’s Hospital (4/6/2011 123KB)

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Sheriff’s Residence and Jail (4/6/2011 123KB)

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Soper-Burr House (4/6/2011 123KB)

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

Selected as one of the “2011 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois.

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Driehaus Press Release (3/9/2009 47KB)

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Operation of Farnsworth House to Transfer to National Trust

Farnsworth House Management Transfer Statement from Jim Peters, President, Landmarks Illinois. On January 1, 2010, Landmarks Illinois will transfer management of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House to the property’s owner, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which had worked with Landmarks Illinois, Friends of the Farnsworth House, and others to acquire this internationally-known modernist icon nearly six years ago.

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Money Seeds Illinois County Courthouses Grant Initiative  (3/9/2009 140KB)

Philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus today announced a four-year, $1 million commitment to Landmarks Illinois, the state’s leading voice for historic preservation, to establish a grant program that assists communities throughout Illinois in restoring their historic county courthouses.

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LPCI Name Change Announcement (6/28/2007 8.5KB)

LPCI becomes Landmarks Illinois.

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