Campaign News
We are elated to bring you good news from the Illinois capital of Springfield. Today, the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council (IHSAC) voted unanimously in a roll-call vote to support our nomination of the Michael Reese Hospital Campus to the National Register of Historic Places.
With profound regret, we inform you that the Michael Reese Hospital Power Plant is now being demolished. Alas, there will be no equivalent of the Tate Modern in Chicago as many had hoped. Instead, more of the same: Destruction and visionless waste.
Alerts, Destruction Max Eternity, noted author and publisher of Art Digital Magazine, has written a piece about Chicago’s harebrained Michael Reese Hospital Demolition.
Demolition of the the Michael Reese Hospital Serum Center, alternately known as the Levinson Building and Michael Reese Research Foundation, commenced today, November 16th. One of the South Side’s most important buildings, the Gropius in Chicago Coalition is appalled and ashamed to report this disgraceful act of cultural robbery.
Alerts, Destruction An extended editorial from Jim Peters, president of the non-profit advocacy group Landmarks Illinois, appeared today in the Chicago Sun-Times.