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Statewide Endangered

2009 Ten Most Endangered Historic Places

 

This year’s list of threatened sites was announced on April 28th at a press conference at the State Capitol in Springfield. The annual Ten Most Endangered Historic Places list is designed to focus attention on sites throughout Illinois threatened by deterioration, lack of maintenance, insufficient funds, or inappropriate development. Since the program’s inception in 1995—40 sites have been saved, 34  have been demolished or substantially altered, and 81 remain threatened to some degree. For a detailed list of all 155 sites, visit
the “Ten Most” Archives.

 

One of the most notable listings is the recent court challenge to Chicago’s Landmarks Ordinance, which could impact preservation ordinances across the country. Other listings are: the state’s oldest bank, an early stagecoach inn, a 1915 apothecary, a 109-year-old train station, the first commercial building in the planned community of Riverside, Illinois’ largest Chautauqua auditorium, a Bertrand Goldberg-designed hospital, an iconic structure in Aurora, a Chicago lakefront medical campus, and a distinctive grouping of barns.

 

 

 
 

 

Arcade Building

 

 

Riverside (Cook Co.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Archer House

 

 

Marshall (Clark Co.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aurora Masonic Temple

 

 

Aurora (Kane Co.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chautauqua Auditorium

 

 

Shelbyville (Shelby Co.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Davenport, Rock Island
& Northwestern Depot

Porthole Barns
of Greene County

Chicago Landmark Ordinance

Chicago (Cook County)

 

“A Special 11th Designation" 

 

 

 

Moline (Rock Island Co.)

 

(Greene Co.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis Pharmacy
Interior

Prentice Women’s Hospital

 

 

Canton (Fulton Co.)

 

Chicago (Cook Co.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Reese Hospital Campus

Shawneetown Bank

 

 

 

Chicago
(Cook County)

 

Old Shawneetown
(Gallatin Co.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     
 

 

 

 

 

 

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