A place for info about architecturally significant buildings in danger of being demolished (or are already gone).

#100348418
Date received: 6/16/10
Address: 1157 W. Drummond
Ward: 32
Applicant: Precision Excavation
Owner: Fred Bender Trust, Bender Enterprise Limited Partnership
Permit Description: Wreck and remove a 2-story single family house
Status: Under review

Inexplicably, this property is on sale for $1.75 million at the same time that someone is attempting to knock it down. One answer could be in the listing:

Beautiful corner double lot zoned r-4 in Lincoln Park. Special brick 2-unit with owner’s duplex up and coach house with 2 rental units. 2-car garage with roof deck. View the lovely yard from the New Orleans-style porch on the brick house.

Maybe they want to tear down the coach house?

#100342442
Date received: 6/2/10
Address: 2424 N. Cicero Ave.
Ward: 31
Applicant: MMT Demolition
Owner: Nasar Rustom
Permit Description: Wreck and remove a 1-story commercial brick building.
Status: Under review

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According to the Chicago Landmark Historic Resources Survey, this is the former West City Trust & Savings Bank.

Here it is in StreetView:

#100346654
Date received: 5/28/10
Address: 2045 N. Mohawk St.
Ward: 43
Applicant: Taylor Excavating
Owner: Jarvis Slade
Permit Description: Wreck and remove a brick building and garage.
Status: Under review

#100335706
Date received: 4/20/10
Address: 1414 N. Mohawk
Ward: 43
Applicant: Taylor Excavating
Owner: Rama Kuchipudi
Permit Description: Wreck and remove a 3-story brick building and garage
Status: Under review

This one is something of a mystery. It is listed on Zillow for $749,000 (tons of pics). That’s quite a tear-down!

According to the Historic Resources Survey, construction on this building began in 1883.

#100331334
Date received: 2/22/10
Address: 1358 W. Chestnut/921 N. Noble
Ward: 27
Applicant: Midwest Wrecking
Owner: Archdiocese of Chicago
Permit Description: Wreck and remove a 2 and 1-story brick building(s)
Status: Released 2/22/10 [new application due to inactivity; application for this address previously released 9/2/09 and the City continues to work with the Archdiocese to find viable reuse options to preserve the building

#100326199
Date received: 1/8/10
Address: 2319 N. Kenmore
Ward: 32
Applicant: Heneghan Wrecking and Excavation
Owner: DePaul University
Permit Description: Demolition of a 3-story residential building and detached garage.
Status: Released 3/11/10

#100323871
Date received: 1/5/10
Address: 500 W. 59th St.
Ward: 3
Applicant: National Wrecking Company
Owner: Chicagoland management, LLC
Permit Description: Wreck and remove 3-story brick apartment building
Status: Under Review

#100323472
Date received: 12/10/09
Address: 8952 S. Commercial
Ward: 10
Applicant: Omega Demolition
Owner: City of Chicago [Court-ordered demolition] Permit Description: Wreck 3-story brick and wood building with 3-story addition
Status: Released 12/14/09

#100306416
Date received: 11/25/09
Address: 211 E. Grand Ave.
Ward: 42
Applicant: Robinette Demolition
Owner: Ronald McDonald House Charities
Permit Description: Wreck and remove 4-story commercial Building
Status: Released 12/2/09

#100303205
Date received: 11/09/09
Address: 3600 S. Vincennes
Ward: 4
Applicant: Delta Demolition
Owner: Chicago Housing Authority
Permit Description: Demolition of a 2-story brick church
Status: Released 11/09/09 [Pursuant to 2002 Madden-Wells Memorandum of Agreement between City of Chicago and IL Historic Preservation Agency; also, fire-damaged]