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The city will ask to grant preliminary landmark status to the Portage Theater--a decision that could complicate a controversial plan to purchase and alter the 92-year-old, North Side movie house.

Worshippers at an historically black Episcopal church in Gary have mounted an effort to get their architecturally-daring midcentury modern building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Union Stock Yards--the square-mile South Side slaughterhouse and meat packer of yore that once fed the nation--has been gone for more than 40 years; its vast acreage has been a successful industrial park since the hogs stopped squealing in 1971.Significant remnants of the old stockyards can stil

Listen to Michael Graves on Afternoon Shift  In the past five years it seems the number of "design aficionados" has blown up. An entire cottage industry of design blogs document the minutiae of home decor in loving detail.

The bulldozers finally began rolling yesterday on Shepherd's Temple Baptist Church--nee Anshe Kenesseth Israel synagogue--in the city's North Lawndale community.An emergency demolition order issued for the vacant and dilapidated structure last December finally claimed the building, 3411 W.

A deteriorating former North Lawndale synagogue that has been the subject of a month-long preservation battle will be demolished, with pre-demo work on the structure likely beginning today, according to a city Department of Buildings spokesperson.The old Anshe Kenesseth Israel temple, 3411 W.

The team led by designer James Corner is the winner in a competition to revamp Navy Pier’s public spaces or Pierscape.