Are historic preservation and economic revitalization mutually exclusive in Lombard?

Head over to our new Lombard journal, where Yo’s newest writer, Ayesha, is giving us the scoop on the real-life drama playing out over the DuPage Theatre, which she says is the only DuPage County theatre of its kind listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Despite the fight by a citizens’ group called Friends of the DuPage Theatre to save the historic structure, demolition work and plans for a new complex with a theatre, condos and restaurants are moving forward. Ayesha raises the question, “What place does historic preservation have in the context of economic revitalization?”