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Pride Cleaners building at 558 E. 79th St. in Chicago on March 12, 2026. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Elizabeth Blasius: Chicago must act to protect the South Side’s midcentury modern Pride Cleaners

March 18, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Despite its presence in Chicago pop culture, as an icon of South Side architecture, Pride Cleaners is not a Chicago landmark.

The Roger Brown Study Collection row house at 1926 N. Halsted St. in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood Sept. 18, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Elizabeth Blasius and Susannah Ribstein: Landmark the Roger Brown Home and Studio — or lose it forever

September 19, 2025 at 1:52 p.m.

The Roger Brown Home and Studio has local, national and international significance to a broad community of artists.

The empty Century and Consumers Buildings at 202-220 S. State St. in Chicago, March 9, 2022.

Elizabeth Blasius: Wrecking the Century & Consumers buildings is ‘Durbin Renewal,’ not urban safety

April 29, 2022 at 3:13 p.m.

Federal money has been allocated for the demolition of the Century & Consumers Buildings, two early 1900s skyscrapers at the corner of State and Adams streets in Chicago's Loop. This...

Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago speaks as protesters rally outside the Thompson Center on June 23, 2021, in an effort to save the building from possible redevelopment.

Op-ed: Thompson Center 2.0 is a preservation win for 2022

January 3, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Either by luck or by fate, I was on my way to the James R. Thompson Center when I saw that a news conference was being held to announce that...

Architect Helmut Jahn looks over drawings of his State of Illinois Center in 1980.

Commentary: Restore — don’t demolish — the Thompson Center as a symbol of activism

June 26, 2019 at 4:27 p.m.

"Some Chicago preservationists seem to embrace the notion that if Louis Sullivan didn't design a building, it probably isn't worth fighting for." Paul Gapp, who was the baiduhai's architecture...

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