Backlash Not Easing With Plan Commission Approval of Revised High-rise in Old Town
(Above) Rendering by GREC Architects of Old Town Canvas, including a Walgreens store at lower left. (Click on image to view larger...
Don DeBat
Feb 27
$14 Million Approved for Rebirth of Cabrini-Green
(Above) Rendering by Pappageorge Haymes Partners of 57 West Oak Street. (Click on image to view larger version.) The Chicago City...
Don DeBat
Feb 22
Developers Tried to Save Cabrini-Green Two Decades Ago
A building on North Hudson Avenue at Cabrini-Green in 1989. Photo by Camilo J. Vergara As the Chicago Housing Authority prepares to build...
Don DeBat
Feb 20
Cabrini-Green Rebirth Planned on Edge of Gold Coast
(Above) 534 West Division Street in the Cabrini-Green housing project, photographed in 1998 by Camilo J. Vergara (Library of Congress)....
Don DeBat
Feb 14
Approval of Residential High-Rise Met with Old Town Backlash
(Above) Area in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood in which a revised “Old Town Canvas” is planned. (Click on image to view larger version.)...
Don DeBat
Feb 12
Compromise Reached for Residential High-rise in Old Town
(Above) Rendering by GREC Architects of Old Town Canvas. In the new proposal, Old Town Canvas is shorter, has fewer apartments and fewer...
Don DeBat
Feb 4
