Old Town's Historic Landmark Wacker House is Defaced
Defaced Wacker House (above) By Don DeBat Old Town’s famed Wacker House, once a pristine landmark at 1838 N. Lincoln Park West, is undergoing a tragic and unthinkable “remuddling” that has totally defaced the “Mona Lisa” of Chicago’s rare surviving Victorian-era properties. Like the 1950 movie, “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Gloria Swanson, today—the once classically beautiful, but aging star—is no longer ready for her close up. In fact, developer and beer baron Frederick Wacke
Don DeBat
Jul 27
