Tag: Preservation
Lee Bey dishes on the new landmarks
If you have a few minutes to spare, they'll be well spent in listening to architecture critic and photographer Lee Bey's thoughts on mid-century m [...]
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 [...]
Logan Square’s Hairpin Lofts receives preservation award
The landmark Morris Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee Ave in Logan Square, which had sat vacant for nearly 20 years, has been transformed into Ha [...]
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 [...]
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