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“These are the very last of the early Chicago skyscrapers,” said Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago. “I think a lot of people would get very upset if they were demolished.” Other sites making the 2023 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” list range from the West Loop birthplace of house music to an ornate Rogers Park warehouse.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The buildings on Clark St. are worth saving, some of the others might be but certainly not the south side industrial buildings or the hideous UIC library.