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Back in the day you could count on some of Chicago’s best barbeque outside the Greater Little Rock Church at Armitage and Dayton in the DePaul – Sheffield neighborhood.
The site is slated for development of a 3-story Walgreens, and demolition of the church was far along when I visited yesterday afternoon.
The new store is likely to be patterned after Walgreens new flagship at State and Randolph – not a traditional drugstore but “a retail health and daily living destination” with a sushi bar and more.
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Any idea why the church, built around 1927 was exempted from this landmarked district? Seems a shame they couldn’t at least re-use it like the bank building Walgreens is repurposing at Damen and Milwaukee.
Buster,
I think all churches are exempt from the landmarking ordinance. First amendment issues and all that.
Gotcha. Too bad. Churches, obviously, have some pretty extraordinary architecture.
Sad – this building has a lot of history as the epicenter of the Lincoln park gentrification struggle of the 1960s. the Young Lords (gang turned community activist) used this as their HQ, and many a battle with the city’s urban renewal department and the Sheffield Neighbor’s association was held here.
http://www.depaul.edu/academics/research/Pages/latino-research.aspx
there is no such thing as “architectural preservation” in Chicago.