Lander's Restaurant / Miller's Pub, Chicago
This one threw me for a loop, since I always assumed venerable Chicago tavern Miller’s Pub had been here forever.
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St. Stephen King of Hungary Catholic Church, Chicago
Szt. István beaming down beatifically at the building, a rare Hungarian-language Chicago church, and an unusual Protestant-to-Catholic church conversion.
Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Co. and the Parkway Ballroom
The rise of Black insurers like the Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company embodied “making a way out of no way”. Having made their way, CMMAC opened their new Bronzeville headquarters here in 1940, with a unique asset for the community on the second floor–the Parkway Ballroom.
Zymotechnic Institute and Siebel's Brewing Academy, Chicago
Postcards as an unreliable depiction of an idealized past, an old-timey archaic science, and a plucky Chicago survivor that’s housed a wild variety of tenants–this is a fun one.
Nikolas Hotel/Harvest Commons, Chicago
An exuberant Art Deco SRO overlooking one of Chicago's oldest public parks, preserved as affordable housing–this is such an encouraging project.