It’s the work of Chicago architect Henry Schlacks. The church dominates blocks of mostly two-story frame homes, its steeple overlooking the Dan Ryan Expressway. Why threatened: It has been ...
As a controversial 101-foot-tall LDS temple is taking shape in Cody, locals remain strongly divided over it. There’s still ...
For the first time in the 22-year history of Preservation Chicago’s ... church building is deteriorating after years of deferred maintenance. Distinctive features include a 228-foot stone ...
Because it’s a bit hard to keep track of, many of us keep the debate about dam removal along the Fox River as an “out of ...
With nearly two miles of private lakefront in Austin, Texas, the Travis Club is set to soft open its Beau Welling-designed ...
On this 188th birthday of the City of Chicago, Preservation Chicago issued ... St. Martin the Beggar at the top of its ...
Its iconic steeple and statue, the latter lost in a windstorm, were long a landmark for pilots approaching Midway Airport. The Archdiocese closed the church ... Chicago, and yet it “continues to ...
GERLAW, Illinois – Most of the Quad Cities area avoided major damage as a fierce line of winds rolled through Friday night, but Gerlaw Christian Church in Gerlaw, wasn’t so lucky. Friday night’s storm ...
Friday night’s storm blew the steeple off Gerlaw Christian Church in Warren County. A cross dangles from the steeple. (Eric Olsen, OurQuadCities.com) The wind blew the steeple off the building ...