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Old Posted Dec 3, 2020, 3:19 AM
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Weird. Is this just some oversight on the city that they didn't automatically do a 90 day hold in the first place? Or is it because it was already on the delay list once that they didn't catch it
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Old Posted Dec 3, 2020, 5:02 AM
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I haven't yet seen anything authoritative, but someone on Reddit claims "the initial demo permit issued a few years ago expired, but then this one was released without triggering the 90 day delay - someone fucked up, it should have triggered the demolition delay before the new permit was released. That's what this revocation is rectifying."
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So they're just going to demolish this on March 1st instead. Got it
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Old Posted Dec 3, 2020, 2:29 PM
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Is it just an "old white person" thang that's not important in trying to set up a New World Order? I was annoyed that Cox's new DPD hires were done primarily on the basis of skin color—even to the point of readvertising the positions when the first group of applicants weren't the right color. And then yesterday he just threw the longtime Landmarks staff under the bus, suggesting that he was just putting on the table a district he didn't believe in for council to do whatever they like with.
When I made a comment similar to this (bringing up concerns about “anti-racist” statements made by a woman in Woodlawn who wanted to keep that neighborhood a certain “color”) you told me to go back to Libertyville (I can pull up that quote if you’d like)

And here you are voicing basically an identical concern.

Just thought I’d point that out
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Sad day. Demo permit was issued for the building that formerly housed LaLuce at 1399 W Lake. Really a shame this couldn’t be saved.


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Former Fulton Market restaurant and Schlitz tavern is safe from wrecking ball - for now - after city revokes demolition permit

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A surviving Victorian building in Chicago’s rapidly developing Fulton Market district, originally a Schlitz tavern and later the home of the Italian restaurant La Luce, has been temporarily spared a date with the wrecking ball.

City officials on Wednesday revoked a demolition permit for the building, located at 1393-1399 W. Lake St., that was mistakenly issued Monday, according to Peter Strazzabosco, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Planning and Development.

The permit has been put on hold through March 1 under the city’s so-called “demolition delay” ordinance, which requires city officials to review applications to tear down potential landmark buildings.

“This sort of slipped through,” said Ward Miller, executive director of the advocacy group Preservation Chicago.
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Is it just an "old white person" thang that's not important in trying to set up a New World Order?
Broke: Limiting private landowners' rights in order to preserve the existence and value of a scarce and irreplaceable public resource across generations.

Woke: Letting today's landowners set municipal policy to maximize their own economic benefit on the stated basis of their inherited membership in a specific group that is politically favored in today's zeitgeist.
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Is this just some oversight on the city that they didn't automatically do a 90 day hold in the first place? Or is it because it was already on the delay list once that they didn't catch it
I guess there was a mix-up with the address in the city's system, per Block Club.

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A 90-day demolition hold had been entered in the city’s system for 1393 W. Lake St. instead of the address range of 1393-1399 W. Lake St.,” Strazzabosco said. “As there was no hold on the 1399 W. Lake address listed on the application, the Department of Buildings issued the demolition permit. The Department of Planning and Development’s Landmarks Division discovered the discrepancy and immediately requested the permit be revoked."
An odd one for sure.
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I guess there was a mix-up with the address in the city's system, per Block Club.


An odd one for sure.
You just witnessed Chicago magic in action. If it wasn't for the quick viral press about this demo it would have been down and gone before the "mistake" was noticed.
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You just witnessed Chicago magic in action. If it wasn't for the quick viral press about this demo it would have been down and gone before the "mistake" was noticed.
A more elevated scheme than "my contractor started demo without my knowledge" which has been used a few times in recent years on smaller buildings...
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Old Posted Dec 3, 2020, 11:43 PM
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When I made a comment similar to this (bringing up concerns about “anti-racist” statements made by a woman in Woodlawn who wanted to keep that neighborhood a certain “color”) you told me to go back to Libertyville (I can pull up that quote if you’d like)
Yes, please.

I think you have me mistaken with someone else.
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The devil is in the details

An earnest try at matching the tower - would be helped by a refinish of the tower itself.







Fortunately the tower still dwarfs the new mall, which does do a good job of blending into the shadows.
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An earnest try at matching the tower - would be helped by a refinish of the tower itself.
Have they tried rubbing the thing with a rag and a can of Brasso?
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3 blocks blocked off and reserved for "outdoor" dining/bars some of the tents have big screen TVs.

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I really like the projects that have sprung up around this area this cycle.
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Making the most of the Sothern exposure.


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