THE ARCH november 2019 / volume 6 / number 1 •

FROM THE PRESIDENT THE 30 N. Michigan Avenue Suite 2020 TO OUR MEMBERS ARCH , IL 60602-3402 If you’re like me, you’re wondering how we’ve already reached November, when it feels like (312) 922-1742 we just entered 2019. The summer and fall passed quickly after a long and wet spring. The november 2019 / volume 6 / number 1 www.Landmarks.org EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE lesson: time moves fast. We take that lesson to heart as Landmarks approaches its 50th Sandra Rand Chair anniversary in February 2021. Gary W. Anderson Vice Chairman Bonnie C. McDonald President & CEO A year and a half out, we began planning for the commemoration this fall, with the first meetings Kathleen A. Swien General Counsel PEOPLE SAVING PLACES of our 50th Anniversary Task Force led by LI Board Member Will Tippens. Will has been an LI Frieda Ireland Treasurer volunteer since 1977, and previously served as LI Board Chair, so he brings valuable perspective 2 2019 PRESERVATION AWARD RECIPIENTS Lee Brown Secretary as well as aspirational thinking to this important initiative. Appointment of additional task force Michael Altheimer members is now underway. Preliminary meetings revealed a desire to use this unique moment Joseph M. Antunovich, FAIA to evaluate, reimagine and evolve Landmarks Illinois to ensure we remain relevant in the future. IN THE FIELD Erika Block 5 ADVOCACY UPDATES Tracy Dillard Jean A. Follett “To create the organization of the future, we first Joshua Freedland Tim Frens must understand where we’ve come from and where OSCAR STANTON DE PRIEST HOUSE Jeffrey P. Goulette we are today.” 7 LI’S WORK AT THE SOUTH SIDE LANDMARK Elle Ramel Will Tippens To create the organization of the future, we first must understand where we’ve come from and where we are today. Landmarks Illinois has hired Matt Seymour, a preservation professional LI EVENTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS and former LI intern, to conduct an impact study detailing 50 years of our organization’s Peter Babaian SAVE THE DATE FOR LLC & TRIVIA NIGHT achievements. His impressive research will be published in the coming months. 8 Anthony Borich Bob Eschbach Additionally, we are taking a look at the current preservation movement across the country Ari Glass Cover: Jennifer Spence stands in front of Rise Above It Bakery & Café, housed in a and how Landmarks Illinois compares to its peers. To gain that perspective, we have invited former empty historic building in downtown Carterville that she rehabilitated. Her Katie Kim multiple nationally recognized speakers to present at LI board meetings and at our Preservation preservation efforts earned Spence a 2019 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Chris Lee Foundation Preservation Award. Read more about this award-winning project and Peter Limberger Snapshot Lectures. I have also personally conducted in-person interviews with preservation others on pages 2 and 3. (Credit: Lori Baysinger) Erica C. Meyer leaders throughout the Unites States, beginning with a two-week trip in August to 12 cities in the Brad Moeller, AIA, LEED South, Southwest, West Coast, East Coast and Southeastern U.S. This trip was made possible Jeffrey Pezza thanks to the generosity of our board, support from the LI staff and a grant from the Peter H. ANNUAL CORPORATE SPONSOR CORNER Ziad Salameh Brink Leadership Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Visits in the Northwest, Steve Schneider Landmarks Illinois thanks its Annual Corporate Sponsors. To learn more about intermountain West, Midwest (including across Illinois) and South continue. Martin C. Tangora this new program, please contact Amy Ege at (312) 922-1742. Cherryl T. Thomas What I have learned is fascinating. There are many commonalities among preservation Blair Todt organizations throughout the country, from innovation to funding challenges. There are a Jack Tribbia growing number of preservationists that believe preservation can do more to tack