
A decade of regret in Chicago
The losses in Chicago’s built environment go far beyond the buildings and their architectural features. These places are symbols of greater failures: vacant lots represent a dearth of affordable housing, church-condo conversions signal the absence of community spaces, and closed schools call attention to the city’s disinvestment in its neighborhoods.
This only covers a sliver of the demolitions and conversions that have occured in the past decade. These spaces are still mourned today, and as we