This is a series I'm starting to "round up" smaller demolitions I photograph that aren't worthy of a full blog post. My hope is to give these buildings a short little digital gravestone that's better search-indexed than my BlueSky posts. This one will cover a wider gamut, photographed from 7/30 to 9/11, in the future I plan to put these out about once every 1-2 months.
2438 N Burling - Lincoln Park
I am generally not a big fan of this kind of faux-stone front (despite living in one), but this is a bonafide 1890 2-flat underneath of it, and some of the details are still nice, such as the porch and stained glass. Wreck-and-remove granted August 26th, photographed September 9th.
1113 W Drummond - Lincoln Park
A very simple 1903 brick 2-flat, relatively unadorned. Wreck-and-remove granted August 28th, new construction of a 3-story single family home permitted September 3rd. (insert negative emoji here), photographed September 9th.
634 W Aldine - Boystown
A blockier 2-story residential building, with a nice and large porch. Nothing yet permitted to replace. Photographed September 11th.
1939 N Larrabee - Lincoln Park
No demolition permit for this one yet, but it's been flagged for a 90-day demolition delay as it is an "Orange rated" building. That doesn't guarantee it much though, see the 2-orange rated structures torn down as part of DePaul's new athletic center, and future blog subject 950 W Willow. Photographed September 11th.
1839 W North Ave - Wicker Park
Unconventional entry here, as this one kind of demolished itself.. 1839 W North collapsed abruptly on August 25th, 2026 while undergoing heavy renovations. It was a heavily modified 1890 workers cottage, and had already had conservation complaints pointing to structural problems several years ago. As of 9/9 , the latest permit is still a renovation permit for turning it into a restaurant. Photographed August 26th.
909 W Webster - Lincoln Park
A sadly very pretty stone-faced 1888 3-flat here, with a funky mid-century addition eating into the sideyard. Wreck-and-remove granted 8/24 , with a permit for a 4-unit building under review since July 17th. Better than SFH, but still under-use of the property. Photographed August 26th
911 W Diversey - Lincoln Park
Another simple Victorian brick 2-flat, like 1113 W Drummond, this one from 1898. Wreck-and-remove was granted back on July 17th, but I came up it being actively demolished here on August 16th. 4-story 3-units permitted to replace. Photographed August 16th.
3724 N Bosworth - Lakeview
I honestly do not usually stop to photograph wood-frame demolitions. I have enough to photograph already, and generally we can still build new ones. 3724 N Bosworth however was blurred on Google Maps, so I stopped to take a picture so it has some kind of internet record. Demolition permitted 8/14 , permit to replace with 3-story single family home under review. Photographed August 15th.
858 N Marshfield - East Village
A quite heavily sanded-down 1888 2-flat. Wreck-and-remove granted 8/13, 3-story/3-units permitted to replace. This one has a levy of open complaints for noise violations relating to the demolition and bricks hitting the neighboring properties. Photographed August 14th; by the time of a ground survey on September 11th, it was completely demolished.
714 N Kedzie - Humboldt Park
714 is an old city firehouse with a few fun municipal details. After at least a decade of reuse as a storage building, it's being demolished to make way for a new fieldhouse and expansion of the neighboring Kells (George) Park to the north. Permit given July 1st. Photographed July 30th.
1800 N Clybourn - Lincoln Park
Long, long ago a cohesive factory building, this property had been carved up six ways to Sunday first into an indoor mall and then a sort of "urban strip mall". It's now being replaced with a newer, sleeker strip mall, only preserving the tower seen to the left, a remnant of the original factory. This photo was taken August 16th, by a later site visit on September 1st, the building chunk at the rear had been reduced to a half-demolished ruin.
THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY
Sometimes, you're slow on the draw. Life happens, you lose the lighting, the CTA catches fire and you miss a connection, and when you circle back, the reaper's already come to collect. I still include these as neighborhood snapshots, and because the buildings did still have some story to them.
2121 W Cortland - Bucktown
This was a 1902 tan-and-cream 2-flat, with some nice corbelling detail along the roofline. Wreck-and-remove was given August 5th, and it was wiped by the time I got there on the 14th. No new construction permit yet, but with it absorbing a second lot that had been a sideyard, it'll likely be a mansion or multi-family. Photographed August 14th.
4143 W 21st St - North Lawndale
This block of the K-Town Historic District was a complete, uninterrupted block for probably close to a century. 4143, an ornamented red brick 2-flat went through demolition court after a series of abandoned building complaints despite appearing in good shape on Streetview, and was finally culled by an emergency wreck-and-remove on August 19th. Photographed August 22nd.
3619 N Magnolia - Wrigleyville
One of two neighboring greystones to be felled on this block this year. Wreck-and-remove was granted on August 26th, in the wake of a new construction permit given July 10th. It's to be replaced with a 3-story, 2-unit condo building, presumably identical to the one visible to the right at 3617 N Magnolia, which was a 1910 2-flat demolished in March of this year. While I've mostly talked about this in Lincoln Park, demolitions have begun to hit Lakeview hard as well; last year another greystone was demolished at 1300 W Newport, leading to a proposal for a landmark district to protect uninterrupted greystone frontage. Photographed September 11th.
That's all for now! Like I said, I'm hoping to get these out about every 1-2 months, depending on the number of demolition permits and my ability to scoot around town after work. Detail shots for some properties may be uploaded to Flickr in the future; at that time they'll be linked here.
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