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Master architectural preservationist Bill Lavicka
William "Bill" Lavicka impressed, charmed and captivated many people during his life, including many in the media, Don DeBat among them. Don becam [...]
Chicago will miss Bill Lavicka
The time I saw Bill Lavicka, it was at his 62nd birthday party at a renovated home he called "Celestial House," and vocalist Sean Harris was singi [...]
Bill Lavicka, Chicago’s most-endangered preservationist
Bill Lavicka is a Chicago original, one of those outsize characters who create and preserve the built heritage the rest of us then take for grante [...]
Chicago loses a great friend in Alys Lavicka
Developer and preservationist Bill Lavicka is well-known to Chicagoans for his crusades, from working to save historic homes on the 1500 block of Wes [...]
Lavicka selling Celestial House in the Gap
We headed over to the Gap, on the Near South Side, last week to help developer, activist and raconteur Bill Lavicka celebrate his birthday and the com [...]
City places landmark Raber House up for bid
The City's Department of Housing and Economic Development has put the John Raber House, a Chicago landmark, up for bid. The home, at 5760 S Lafayette [...]
Keeping housing copacetic in Tri-Taylor
"I think there's a reasonable integration," Historic Boulevard Services' William Lavicka says of the new construction that has gone up in Tri-Taylor [...]
New condos creep into Tri-Taylor
"Eternally half-made and half-mad, the Near West Side is Chicago's private face, a thousand miles distant from its lakefront profile," writes Vincen [...]
A walk through Celestial House
This is not your ordinary house tour. But then, Celestial House, 3350 S. Calumet Ave in Bronzeville, is no ordinary renovation, and developer Bill L [...]
Celestial House, Bronzeville, Chicago
This is not your ordinary house tour. But then, Celestial House, 3350 S. Calumet Ave in Bronzeville, is no ordinary renovation, and developer Bill La [...]
Sean Harris, Stardust in French
We caught up with Sean as he was preparing to sing at developer Bill Lavicka's birthday party, held at Celestial House, 3350 S. Calumet Ave, in Chica [...]
Restoring a historic gem in the Gap
Viewing the latest work in progress by craftsman developer Bill Lavicka is always a joy.
Lavicka, whose passion is restoring Chicago's historic archi [...]
Downtown condos for $56,000? It happened just 10 years ago…
With all the housing and economic experts gazing into their crystal balls for 2005, now may be a good time to reflect on what was happening in the Chi [...]
Can shuttered Cook County Hospital be resuscitated as rehabbed housing?
Old hospital buildings, like the long-term benefits baby boomers once expected from Medicare, seem to be on their way to extinction.
In recent years, [...]
Pilsen both wary and welcoming as development moves southwest
When Teresa Fraga moved with her family to the Lower West Side neighborhood of Pilsen 36 years ago her apartment did not have a bathroom, much less a [...]
Location, new housing breathe life into colorful Bridgeport
By 11 a.m. the Teamsters are tired. They've been out here a couple of hours already, on the 3700 block of South Halsted, picketing in front of Allen B [...]
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