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Assumption School
Chicago
This Beaux Arts-style structure, which was built in
1899 by St. Frances Cabrini to serve the Near North Side’s immigrant
community, is being converted to residential condominiums. The structure
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C. S. Dole Mansion
Crystal Lake
The Lakeside Legacy Foundation turned this
LPCI 2002 Chicagoland Watch List site into one of Landmark's 2003 Richard H.
Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award winners. “This unprecedented effort
by the Lakeside …
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Culver House
Decatur
As a result of the designation of the Culver
House to LPCI’s Ten Most Endangered Historic Places in 2000, the Historic
Decatur Foundation was awarded an Illinois First Grant which enabled them
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Farnsworth House
Plano
The Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois and
the National Trust for Historic Preservation announce the Mies van der Rohe’s
historic Farnsworth House has been saved. The group successfully outbid …
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Gillett Memorial Arch
Elkhart
The Gillett Memorial Arch, located on County Road 10, in
the small town of Elkhart in Logan County, will remain in place despite the
county’s attempts to have it demolished to accommodate a road widening project.
The scenic bridge was included in LPCI’s 2005 Ten Most …
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Glasner House
Glencoe
The sale of this Frank Lloyd
Wright-designed residence to a preservation-minded owner was
completed in June. There were fears that the 1905 building, which had been
listed for sale by its current owner, would be …
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Jacobs Block/Rock River Bank
Oregon
After more than a year of
community protest, the Oregon City Council voted in February 2005 against
a proposed Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) road widening
project that would have demolished two prominent corner buildings …
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Old City Hall
West Frankfort
The West Frankfort City
Council voted to accept a bid of $10,429 from Dr. Ted VanAcker for the
purchase of the Old City Hall on July 13, 2004. This successfully
ended the long grass roots effort to save the building …
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Pickford Theater Building
Chicago
One of the landmarks of
African-American filmmaking, music, and theater will be saved—just months
after landing on LPCI’s list of the Ten Most Endangered Historic Places in
Illinois for 2006 …
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Scherer Flats
Chicago
This Victorian-era commercial
structure, located at the prominent corner of State and Division in the
Gold Coast National Register District, has been adaptively reused as a CVS
Pharmacy. Originally scheduled to be demolished for a drugstore …
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South Michigan Avenue Streetwall
Chicago
This famed, 11-block-long wall of buildings facing Grant Park is now a
protected local landmark district. It originally was proposed for landmark
protection in 1976 but—due to opposition from property owners—it did not
receive landmark designation …
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South Water Street Market
Chicago
A private developer (Enterprise Inc.) is retrofitting
these eight terra cotta buildings into approximately 850 new residential
units. The complex, designed by architects Fugard & Knapp in 1925, was
vacated in 2003 …
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St. Gelasius Catholic Church
Chicago
The Renaissance Revival-style church (built 1923; Henry Schlacks,
architect) was closed in 2002 and the Archdiocese planned to
demolish it. The City decided to pursue landmark designation …
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Zook Home and Studio
Hinsdale
Just two months after being
targeted for demolition, a unique complex of structures designed by
architect R. Harold Zook was saved and relocated by the Hinsdale
Historical Society to a village park two miles south. The complex included
an English Cotswold …
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