Great news about the pursuit to landmark 13 banks. I'm especially happy to know that they plan to landmark the former MB Financial Bank offices on West Madison. Given the amount of shitty development (as well as meaningless demolition) occurring along Halsted in the west loop it's good that at least the city is stepping in to preserve a noteworty historic building.
I have long hoped that that building wouldn't see the wrecking ball, and being that WLCO doesn't have the foggiest clue about how a city is supposed to look or function (I wouldn't be surprised if they opposed the landmarking because they would rather see a parking lot there instead to 'ease' their parking crunch), I wasn't expecting that this thing would be saved.
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