June 7, 2000 – The Chicago Tribune reports that
as the Coe mansion awaits the wreckers on Dearborn Street, the Daley
administration proposes landmark district status to protect buildings along a
half-mile stretch of Dearborn, all of which were built in the 1870’s and 1880’s
in the decade or so after the Chicago fire.
The proposal would grant the structures preliminary landmark status, triggering
a yearlong process of public hearings if new construction or alterations are
proposed. “Once a demolition permit is
granted, our hands are tied,” says a spokesman for the city’s Planning
Department, Becky Carroll. “Getting
these buildings on the docket gives the city the ability to save them.”
[Chicago Tribune, June 7, 2000]
The threat to the Coe Mansion, which housed a popular Renalli’s
Restaurant and which actually did end up being torn down, generated a new unity
among various preservation groups. Out
of the struggle to save the building Preservation
Chicago was born.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
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This is my photograph, to which I own all rights. You used it without my permission or linking it to the source. Either take it down or pay me a use fee. Thank you for your consideration.
Frederick J. Nachman (aka Brule Laker)
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