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Article: Historic Arts Club Building To Meet the Wrecking Ball
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 2, 1994
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The atmosphere in the audience at the end of a recent Landmarks
Commission committee meeting was morguelike.
Preservationists had made, and apparently lost, their case for
an 11th-hour reprieve for the Arts Club, 109 E. Ontario, a site
slated for redevelopment as part of a new North Michigan Avenue
commercial block.
A last-minute scramble to save the Mies van der Rohe-designed
club - the impending doom of which is felt throughout international
architectural circles - seems to have become another example of
Chicago's attitude problem when it comes to historic buildings.
City planners and preservationists alike were unaware that a
demolition permit already had been issued for the site ...