Landmarks Illinois

Ferris Bueller House Tops Endangered Buildings List

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Highland Park house made famous in Ferris Bueller's Day Off tops a list of endangered historic structures in Chicago released Wednesday by non-pro...

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Olympic Village Site Listed Among Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011

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The old Michael Reese Hospital on Chicago's South Side, a centerpiece of the city's 2016 Olympics bid, was named among the Ten Most Endangered Histori...

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Now is a Good Time to Visit (and Rescue!) the Most Stunningly Beautiful Modernist House in Illinois

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Edward Lifson

Structure is the essence of architecture, good architecture is based on nature, and here it is beautifully abstracted. Autumn is a good time to see-- and save-- the Farnsworth House.

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Will We Lose Another Frank Lloyd Wright House?

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Edward Lifson

Frank Lloyd Wright is perhaps the greatest artist America has ever produced, in any medium. Up there with Louis Armstrong and Walt Whitman and Martha Graham. A creator of beautiful worlds. We are the stewards of his work. We are lucky to have it around us. Preserve it so when we need it, it's there.

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Local Landmarks On Endangered Buildings List

Chicago Tribune | Steve Schmadeke | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last intact Route 66 filling station in Chicago, an Evanston mansion where the nation's 30th vice president once lived and a one-room school house...

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Farnsworth House: Saving A Masterpiece

The Skyline | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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What to do with Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, the lovely one-story pavilion of steel and glass that the neighboring--but not very neighborly--...

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