Each year the city’s leading nonprofit historic preservation group, Preservation Chicago, announces the “Chicago 7”—a list of seven significant buildings, pieces of infrastructure, parks, or public artworks that it considers most endangered. This year’s lineup includes a mix of new sites—like the Chicago Town & Tennis Club and commercial districts in Roseland and Back of the Yards—and several returning sites highlighted before.
“This year we continue to see the threat to our public resources, which is of great concern—from the potential sale of the James R. Thompson Center, to the loss of 20 acres of Lakefront parklands in Jackson Park, the Midway and the South Shore Cultural Center for the proposed Obama Presidential Center,” said Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago, in a statement.
“We need to prioritize strategies that put preservation first in public policy and practice, so the history that ties us to our communities and connects us to place can be protected.” Here’s a look at Preservation Chicago’s seven most endangered sites in 2020.
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