DON'T MISS! Shaping the City: Civic Leadership in Gilded Age Chicago Presented by Driehaus Museum with panelists Ward Miller, Will Hansen, Lisa M. Key and Ross Stanton Jordan Saturday, June 6 3:00-4:00 pm Free; Registration Highly Recommended driehausmuseum.org/programs/det...

visit to Lincoln Square for Maifest and Gene’s Sausage Shop for meats and German treats 🥩🌭🇩🇪

Hello from the endangered modernist masterpiece that is Pride Cleaners Architect: Gerald Siegwart, 1959

DON'T MISS! The Chicago 2026 Preservation Expo Monday, May 18 4:00 to 7:00 Chicago Cultural Center FREE tickets! And swing by the Preservation Chicago booth! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-chica...

What’s That Building? Mural from the old Daily News Building www.wbez.org/architecture...

Holiday Club Is Closing May 17 After 25 Years In Uptown blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/27/h...

What’s That Building? South portico of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry www.wbez.org/architecture...

“It’s been a fight for some time,” Corley said. “Every community deserves to have a quality of life. Part of that is entertainment, a safe place to go and have fun. They deserve a bowling alley.” Skyway Lanes, Chicago’s Last Black-Owned Bowling Alley, Closing blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/31/s...

Work starts on the $1.2 million restoration of landmark Pullman church's troubled but iconic bell tower chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...

Portage Theater Restoration Advances As New Owner Takes Over Repairs Chris Bauman, of Zenith Music Group, has applied for grants and begun cleaning the interior of the historical theater, which went into receivership under the previous owner. blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/13/p...

The Hand & The Eye, A 5-Level Magic Theater, To Open This Month Off Mag Mile blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/t...

Chicago Sign Museum wants the city's hand-made signs saved before they're gone www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/10/c...

Jackson Park’s 'Gold Lady' could look like a million again, thanks to a planned restoration chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...

BACK IN STOCK! Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room Poster: Preservation Chicago Art Print (16x20) Buy any two posters for FREE shipping! etsy.me/4t7FJKi

As Chicago Loses Another Iconic Neon Sign, Preservationists Sound The Alarm blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/04/a...

MUST READ ARTICLE! A push to protect Morgan Shoal — a marine wonder on the South Side — and the Chicago shoreline www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/22/m...

Elizabeth Blasius: Chicago must act to protect the South Side's midcentury modern Pride Cleaners www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/18/o...

Edward Keegan: Stanley Tigerman’s last book preserves traces of the architect, but his legacy is in peril www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/c...

Final landmark recommendation for the Roger Brown Home and Studio Preservation Chicago has been working with preservation partners towards this outcome. However, we are still very disappointed that the entire Roger Brown collection was sold out of state and that the Roger Brown Home was sold.

Great news! The Chicago Landmarks Commission approved a preliminary recommendation for the Bryn Mawr Avenue District Preservation Chicago has been working with the community towards this outcome and attended the hearing today and gave multiple public testimonies in support of the district.

Bravo!! Great news for the Chicago Daily News Building! The Chicago Daily News Building received a preliminary Chicago Landmark Designation today at the Commission on Chicago Landmarks meeting. We've come a long way since 2008, when it was a Preservation Chicago 7 Most Endangered!

Chicago Loses Another Classic Neon Sign As Foremost Liquors Marquee Comes Down blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/27/c...

Skyway Lanes, Chicago’s Last Black-Owned Bowling Alley, Closing After 'Surge' Of Support Fades blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/31/s...

Become a Docent for Historic Second Church in Chicago's South Loop Training takes place in-person on Wednesday evenings from April 22 through May 20. Details and registration are available online: www.historicsecondchurch.org/docents

Skyway Lanes, Chicago’s Last Black-Owned Bowling Alley, Closing After 'Surge' Of Support Fades A sad update to a bittersweet struggle of the last year for this South Side staple. ✍️ Mack Liederman @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/31/s...

There's a new exhibit in Milan of Chicago jazz/blues photos by prolific Don Bronstein that largely went unseen for 40 years after his death in 1968. Interesting article asks, what happens to your work when you die? www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/... I hope this exhibit comes to Chicago

Chicago's Gold Lady statue in Jackson Park will undergo a $1 million repair and regild project starting in May, its first restoration since 1992.

Jackson Park’s 'Gold Lady' could look like a million again, thanks to a planned restoration chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...

1/2 I was introduced to this gorgeous girl by @dmercer.bsky.social & had to go see her myself. The AIA Guide calls this "an essay in Gothic," which is cool & all, but doesn't quite explain why nearly every creature on this thing is snacking on some other creature. Architect: Louis Bourgeois, 1887

A little further down the block is that other banger -- the home George Dunne built for himself. The Dunnes are not only listed as living here in a 1901 directory, they somehow managed to stuff 100 guests in here for their 15th wedding anniversary in 1902. Architect: Henry J McMullen, 1900.

1/2 Another Griser banger, this time in Buena Park. The original plan for this site was an apartment hotel, but that got scrapped in favor of a regular apartment complex. The extensive first floor lobby between buildings is a relic of that earlier plan. Architect: Louis Keith Griser, 1926

Hubba hubba. 2132 and 2126 W. Warren (one on left permitted in 1891).

The obsessive @chgohoods.bsky.social fan has logged on. I do admit to some bias in displaying Steve's South Side designs, but you can rectify this imbalance buying his prints featuring other neighborhoods.

Saw @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social 's post and photos, got inspired. I love this building that occupies a weird slice of land at the corner of 79th/Stony Island/South Chicago in Avalon Park.

Sign this petition to save an amazing space that was already saved once before…because it’s AMAZING

When I lived in Chicago and went to the Art Institute, I always went to look at this room. It's an Art Noveau masterpiece, and Louis Sullivan is one of the main reasons Chicago has such great architecture. Demolishing this would be like NYC tearing down the Empire State building.

Hey, this is a petition about a site that means a lot to me. I can't believe the Art Institute is considering tearing this down! It's such an amazing place to visit. #WaysToHelp

From Impossible to Inevitable! All Saints St. Anthony Church was a Chicago 7 Most Endangered in 2019. And after years of dedicated advocacy, today its been beautifully restored and adaptively reused as the Xilin SACC – Xilin St. Anthony Community Center. Photos: Ward Miller

DON'T MISS! Ridge Historical Society celebrates artist Jack Simmerling's creative life "Jack Simmerling: Through His Eyes" Extended until April 26, 2026 www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/j...

What ever happened to the 7 buildings on Preservation Chicago's 1st Endangered Buildings list? www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/07/p...

Great photos by Colin Boyle from Block Club! These Are Chicago's Most Endangered Buildings In 2026 blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/04/c...

Will Art Institute expansion leave Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange room in the cold? chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...

A ghost sign collage from a while ago. Not sure how many of these still exist. All in Chicago (I think).

1/2 I was minding my own business when this gold terra cotta glinted in the sun & caught my magpie eye. Turns out we've got a tiny Art Deco storefront in a pretty rose, ivory & gold color palette, & Peter Francis Geraci has chosen to put a gigantic awning over it. Architect: Edward Nordlie, 1939

This one also sports a ginormous Chicago Municipal Device!

One of the deteriorating tender houses on the LaSalle Street Bridge (1928), collectively listed with other Chicago River bridges & houses on Preservation Chicago's 7 Most Endangered of 2026

Oh, that's the stuff. 7941 King Drive, finished in 1928.

MUST READ ARTICLE! When a Museum Devours its Own: The Mortal Threat to Adler & Sullivan's Stock Exchange Trading Room ArchitectureChicago PLUS blog by Lynn Becker arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026/03/when...

The Chicago Stock Exchange itself should never have been demolished. This exquisite room is one of the few vestiges of it that remain, & it is absolutely outrageous that it should be endangered again. Architects: Adler & Sullivan, 1894 Demolished: 1972 Reconstruction Architects: Vinci & Kenny, 1977

Every Thursday, WTTW News newsletter producer Josh Terry highlights his picks for the week’s must-see cultural events. Whether you’re a born thespian, a stand-up fanatic, a film buff or a patron of the visual arts, this city’s got you covered. https://to.wttw.com/3ONiAxy