Mar 26, 2024 Chicago Illinois From the archive Irving Park Reformed Church, Chicago The first church in Irving Park, highway construction in the 1950s just missed the old Irving Park Reformed Church in the 1950s, but the Kennedy
Mar 19, 2024 Chicago Illinois Kohl & Madden Ink Company Plant, Chicago An Art Moderne factory turned liquor store feels like an especially Chicago version of adaptive reuse.
Mar 11, 2024 Chicago Illinois M & C Motors, 3200 W. Foster, Chicago A tidy example of the early postwar modernism that characterized commercial architecture in Chicago’s outermost neighborhoods that's in better shape than the discontinued car brands it initially sold…but only barely.
Feb 19, 2024 Michigan From the archive YMCA, Cortland Street, Jackson, Michigan Buildings razed for parking lots, surprising survivors, and art as a revitalization tool–the story of Jackson's old Cortland Street YMCA.
Feb 9, 2024 Illinois City Hall, St. Charles, Illinois Does St. Charles have the best city hall in Illinois? I think it might.