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Cover: Route 66 celebrates its Centennial in 2026. (Cover photo credit Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway)
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Cover: BandWith’s Drumline performs at a groundbreaking ceremony for its adaptive reuse project East Garfield Park, a project supported through a Reinvestment Program Loan.
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Cover: The Galindo family at Apollo’s 2000, an event venue and concert hall at a historic former theatre in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.
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Cover: The former Famous Building in Cairo, Illinois, which featured a galvanized sheet-metal façade made by Mesker Brothers Iron Works of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Cover: Jeff Mayer stands in front of the Goodall Building in Marion, which he restored. His efforts won him a 2023 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award.
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Cover: Andrew Schneider (left) and David Berkey in front of the Jefferson Ice House in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood.
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Cover: 2022 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award Winner, the Lincoln Park Zoo Pepper Family Wildlife Center.
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Cover: Will County Courthouse in Joliet, included on the 2022 Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois.
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Cover: Tiara Hughes, a 2022 Landmarks Illinois Influencer and member of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, at the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Home in Woodlawn in Chicago. Credit Tiara Hughes.
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Cover: Randi and David Howell with their son Arlow in front of the Duncan Manor near Towanda. The couple have restored the historic home, earning them a 2021 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award. Credit: Stephanie Wood Photography.
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Cover: Artists Kari Black, Sam Kirk and Dorian Sylvain in front of The Forum in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood that display their murals. Credit Lewis Purdy.
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Cover: Yaphett El-Amin of Efficacy Consulting & Development stands in front of 2021 Most Endangered site, the Broadview Hotel in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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Cover: Civil rights activist Timuel D. Black, Jr. (left) and Chandra Cooper, great-granddaughter of Muddy Waters and President of the Muddy Waters Original Jam Out (MOJO) Museum, stand in front of Muddy Waters’ former Chicago home in the North Kenwood neighborhood.
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Cover: A worker performs masonry repair last summer on the back of the Old Cook County Hospital. The large building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been rehabilitated and reopened as a multi-use development. (Credit: Walsh Construction.)
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Cover: Inside O’Hare Airport’s Rotunda Building, designed by architect Gertrude Kerbis in 1962. Landmarks Illinois is celebrating Kerbis and other female architects, designers, builders, engineers and more with our new “Women Who Built Illinois” project.
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Cover: Gina Lathan and Stacy Grundy, President and Vice President of Route History, Inc., respectively, stand in front of their museum, visitor center and shop in Springfield. Route History is dedicated to telling the stories of Black people along Route 66 and in Springfield.
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Cover: Jennifer Spence stands in front of Rise Above It Bakery & Café, housed in a former empty historic building in downtown Carterville that she rehabilitated – an effort that won her a 2019 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award.
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Cover: The Rockford Diocese-owned Chancery in Rockford, included on LI’s 2019 Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois, is demolished.
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Cover: Properties named to Landmarks Illinois’ Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois throughout the program’s 25-year history. (Photos by Liz Chilsen)
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Cover: Artist Jim Jenkins works on repairing one of the four “Memory” sculptures on the New York Street Memorial Bridge in Aurora. The 660-foot-long bridge spans the Fox River and serves as a tribute to WWI soldiers. LI awarded the City of Aurora two grants through its World War I Monument Preservation Grant Program in 2017 and 2018 to help with the bridge restoration project.
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Cover: Photos of award recipients and award-winning projects over the 25-year history of the Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards
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Cover: Citizens Savings and Loan Association Building, East Alton (credit: Frank Butterfield)
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Cover: The MacLean Center, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago (credit: SAIC Media Services)
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Cover: 2014 Project of the Year, Richard H. Driehaus Preservation Foundation Awards, State Capitol, Springfield (credit: Tom Rossiter)
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