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This year’s “Chicago 7” buildings most in danger of demolition are located not only in neighborhoods of disinvestment but downtown. Preservation Chicago annually picks significant buildings, and highlights programs to help renovate them, in an effort to perserve Chicago's famous architectural heritage and stimulate development.
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Compiled by Dave Hamilton
Nerd Alert!
C2E2
Comics, cosplay, gaming, wrestling, and anime abound in the only pop culture convention in downtown Chicago! It has gathered your favorite celebrities, unique exhibitors, incredible comic artists, and larger-than-life literary authors into one place to celebrate the fandoms you love. From the halls of Artist Alley to the depths of the Show Floor, the goal is to provide a space of creativity and fun, but most importantly, one that cultivates a sense of belonging, safety, and inclusiveness. If you've always dreamed of attending the biggest geek party in the Midwest, then this is your weekend to geek out with other nerdy Chicagoans. Whether you join virtually or in person, epic memories and awesome friendships await you at C2E2, the show created for you. April 11-13 at McCormick Place, South Building, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive. To learn more and purchase tickets, visit c2e2. com
A Celebrated Legacy!
‘SOARING: Life, Light and Legacy’
“SOARING: Life, Light, and Legacy,” is a celebration of the lasting impact of Nan Giordano’s 40 years at the helm of Giordano Dance Chicago, 7:30 p.m. at Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph St. Tickets range from $27-$97. On Saturday, April 5, Giordano Dance Chicago will also host a gala celebration, “Life, Light, Legacy” honoring Nan Giordano’s legacy as well as the lives of Nan’s son, Keenan Giordano Casey and the Giordano Dance Chicago Founder Gus Giordano. Gala tickets include special seating for that evening’s 6 p.m. Harris Theater performance and a post-performance celebration at Avli on the Park, 180 N. Field Blvd., featuring a lavish buffet with open wine and beer (cash bar is available). Tickets for the gala are $333. For tickets or more information, call 312.922.1332 or visit giordanodance.org/LifeLightLegacy
A Chicago Premiere!
‘Remedios Varios para las Aflicciones del Cuerpo y el Espíritu’ Chicago Opera Theater presents the concert premiere of its sixth Vanguard opera “Remedios Varios para las Aflicciones del Cuerpo y el Espíritu” by Vanguard Composer Carlos R. Carrillo and renowned opera librettist Stephanie Fleischmann. “Remedios Varios para las Aflicciones del Cuerpo y el Espíritu” translates to “Various Remedies for the Afflictions of the Body and Spirit.” Set in a world devoid of color and inspired by the imagery of Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo, a lone tree holds within its rings the memory and possibility of music, poetry, and art. An herbalist struggles to heal a community afflicted by a siege of maladies, and a homesick boarding-school student dreams of escape. An ancient medicinal, written in Spanish (one of countless forbidden languages), just may hold the key — to transcendence, or complete obliteration. This operatic fable journeys into the realm of imagination, where renewal and pos sibility take root and blossom. 7:30 p.m. April 5 at The Athenaeum Center, 2936 N. Southport Ave. Tickets are $50 at chicagooperatheater.org
Cinema, In Every Community!
Chicago Southland International Film Festival
Chicago Southland International Film Festival (CSIFF) is located just miles south of Chicago’s downtown in University Park, IL, and hosted by Governors State University, 1 University Parkway, offering the only film screening event of its kind in Chicago’s Southland. The annual event features an exciting lineup of short and feature films April 3 - 5. The Feature Film Showcase, a non-competitive celebration of independent filmmakers, features handpicked films curated by CSIFF committee members. The Short Film Competition invites submissions from talented filmmakers globally, spanning high school, collegiate, and professional categories. With films 30 minutes or less in length, this competition showcases a rich tapestry of genres. A full schedule and tickets are available at csiff.eventive.org
Art for All!
Wicker Park Bucktown First Fridays Art Walk
The “First Fridays Art Walk,” organized by the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, welcomes art enthusiasts to explore the neighborhoods’ vibrant arts scene. All galleries, pop-up galleries, artistic spaces, and more will open their doors for guests to explore the exhibits, admire unique artwork, and chat with gallery owners and artists. Taking place the first Friday of each month, beverages and light bites will be served at select locations, and this event is free to join. A map of all participating Wicker Park Bucktown arts spaces can be found at wickerparkbucktown.com to choose a path.
Not So Happy Ever After!
'Scary Town'
Merry Town is the happiest town where all the animals live in harmony and wear cute outfits. Deven Bunny has lived there all his life and has always been taught it's the best place ever. But he's not a child anymore (he’s turning 13) and suddenly he starts seeing things differently. W hen Deven discovers a deep dark family secret, it changes everything he thought he knew about everything. Part Richard Scarry storybooks, a dash of soap opera and a loving touch of David Lynch for good measure, “Scary Town” is an adult children’s play about growing up in a lie and living not so happily ever after. April 9 - May 11 at The Clutch, 4335 N. Western Ave. Tickets start at $22 at handbagproductions.org
Sounds of the World!
World Music Wednesdays
A weekly showcase of world music and dance featuring the best local and touring talent! Most shows are Wednesday nights at 7:30 p.m., and are free with a $10 suggested donation, at the Old Town School of Music, 4545 N. Lincoln Ave. On April 2, enjoy the release party for Christian Larumbe's new album Refugio. On April 9, enjoy Ukrainian theater and music group Yagódy (pictured).
Local Musicals!
Chicago Musical Theatre Festival
Kokandy Productions presents the official selections for the annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, a celebration and showcase of the growing field of musical theatre creators from Chicago and beyond. The 2025 Festival will feature concert presentations of five new musicals over the course of one weekend from April 3 – 6 on The Chopin Theatre Mainstage, 1543 W. Division St. in Chicago. Tickets ($20 per performance) at bit.ly/CMTF2025.
Tales from the Heart!
41st Chicago Latino Film Festival
The 41st edition of the Festival will take place April 3-14 with Opening and Closing Night screenings at the Davis Theater, 4614 N. Lincoln Ave., a Centerpiece screening at Instituto Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio St., on April 9, and regular screenings at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St. April 4-13. View the full schedule and purchase tickets at chicagolatinofilmfestival.org
Ga Ga for La La!
Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra: ‘La La Land’ in Concert
Revisit the 2016 Academy Award® winning Lionsgate film, "La La Land," starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, written and directed by Damien Chazelle, in a swoon-worthy live concert experience. "La La Land" showcases the captivating story of a promising pianist and aspiring actress who cross paths and fall in love, while attempting to harmonize their career journeys in the city of stars. The show features a full orchestra and jazz band performing the soundtrack, along with the movie. Experience the vivid musical moments central to the film, including the unbelievable piano solos, live! April 5, 2:30 or 8 p.m. at Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive. Tickets start at $70 at auditoriumtheatre.org
how chicago Bulls can up their game
John: Today we are talking about the weaknesses of the Chicago Bulls as they move on to the play-in tournament.
Russell: The current roster is new. They traded Zach LaVine and got some players in return: Tre Jones, Zach Collins and Kevin Huerter. Their tallest players are Nikola Vukovic (6’10) and Zach Collins (6’11”). Josh Giddey is 6.8.’’ There are no shot blockers though. Shoot is all they do.
John: So why do they have trouble at the rim with that kind of height?
Russell: They got no 7-footers, but they still won four games on the road. Coby White played defense, he also can score. Josh Giddey can block shots, but that’s it. They play tough offense and defense, but they don’t do a good job, they give up too many points. Score 135 points, give up 140.
Allen: As far as the Bulls, they need consistency. That’s the key to championships. They win some, they lose some. They have Josh, they have Coby, Zach Collins and Nikola, the big man. He’s a good rebounder.
But I hear Josh is out with an ankle injury. Congratulations to Coby. He scored 44 points, his career-high, when the Bulls played Orlando.
John: They do take too many threes, I agree with Russell on that. As far as lack of rim protection, you can’t coach height, but you can coach desire. Moses Malone back in the day [ABA/NBA 1974-94, 3-time MVP] wasn’t a tall guy, but he was able to rebound. That’s about desire. Most of us potentially miss shots and then tip them back in. He would do that consistently with the Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers. The biggest problem is, they need the right technique. You
don’t have to be 7 feet like Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar) and Wilt (Chamberlain) to rebound. You can be 6’8.” If you got the desire to jump right, you can get 10-15 boards a night. Shot blocking can’t be controlled either. Offensively, you can’t shoot threes all the time. Going forward, they should be in the play-in tournament. I see them as one-and-done. The only good thing is, the East is so bad they could actually get into the playoff tournament.
Russell: Bad this year, maybe three teams: maybe Boston, New York. Patrick Williams got to step up his game: 20 points a game, 15 rebounds?
Allen: I agree with Russell about Zach LaVine. He was a highly skilled scorer, averaging 24 points a game, impressive with his dunking ability, a key offensive weapon for the Bulls. But, we’re left with Coby White, Nikola and Josh.
They’re going to have to pick up the slack. Coby White is a young point guard. Nikola: he’s versatile, a good rebounder. Josh is another young point guard who has high scoring ability and is a good passer.
John: As far as Coby White is concerned, he is getting better as a ball player. The only thing he needs to work on is his Afro because Dr. J. had it down to a science. But he is becoming quite a unique player. Down the road, in the draft, maybe they can get a shot protector and someone whose forte is rebounds.
Any comments, suggestions or topic ideas for the SportsWise team? Email StreetWise Editor Suzanne Hanney at suzannestreetwise@yahoo.com
Vendors (l-r) Russell Adams, A. Allen and John Hagan chat about the world of sports.
This year’s “Chicago 7” buildings most in danger of demolition are located not only in neighborhoods of disinvestment but downtown, in an early 1870s, post-Fire building hindered by a lease on an empty, ground-floor McDonald’s, says Preservation Chicago Executive Director Ward Miller.
Since 2003, Preservation Chicago’s “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” has sounded the alarm on imminently threatened historic buildings to mobilize the support necessary to save them from demolition. Some of these buildings may have fallen off local developers’ radar, or they may be totally new to outof-town ones, Miller said.
“We are helping to market these buildings by spotlighting them and any knowledge of programs that will help them. We are here to make this a better city at the end of the day, through our landmarks and our historic built environment.”
Chicago is the city that was rebuilt after the Fire of 1871 and in the process made architectural design and engineering history, all the way into the 20th century, he said.
“The very identity of Chicago is tied to our historic buildings and the stories they tell,” which give the city its character, said Eleanor Esser Gorski, CEO of the Chicago Architecture Center, at the March 4 unveiling of the list. The stories thus become part of the fabric of the buildings and add to their value.
Simultaneously, architectural design “is what grounds us to the city we want to be as we evolve,” Chicago Architecture Foundation Senior Director of Public Engagement Adam Rubin said. Heritage tourism around Chicago’s architectural design is an industry in itself, he added.
Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th ward) realized his about two of this year’s buildings in her ward, when she and the McKinley Park Community Council partnered with Preservation Chicago, Miller said. The Central Manufacturing District Clock Tower, with glass on nearly all four sides, could be a fabulous office for a small company, he said. The South Western Boulevard Manufacturing District Buildings, with both industrial and artistic details, are pleasing alternatives to windowless refrigerator buildings. They could be used for start-ups, for affordable housing, or for artists’ live-work space.
St. Martin’s Church, adjacent to the Dan Ryan Expressway, was described in a local newspaper in 1894 as a conscious attempt to build “an edifice of pure style in Gothic church architecture.” Saving it, Miller said, could create a renaissance in Englewood; St. Boniface, a North Side church by the same architect, was turned into market-rate apartments. St. Martin's could also be adaptively reused as a health center or a food pantry.
Public interest in the Chicago 7, Miller said, has helped many buildings beat seemingly impossible odds to become success stories.
The federal government, owner of the Century and Consumers buildings on last year’s list, has agreed to re-use. One proposal would create archives of several religious orders. Archives are sensitive to light, so windows facing the federal buildings on Dearborn and Adams Streets could be sealed for security.
Fifteen years ago, the Chicago Housing Authority’s Lathrop Homes were set to be “a scorched earth demolition,” as Miller said, but now, its Jens Jensen landscape on the Chicago River has been restored, along with all its units north of Diversey. CHA has approved rehab of a majority south of Diversey.
A decade ago, there was talk of demolishing the Thompson Center, but Miller credits Quintin E. Primo III, the Prime Group, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Google for seeing the vision in Helmut Jahn’s building and preventing it from becoming a vacant lot like Block 37 from 1989-2005. Its colors and glass will change, but the building will retain its 17-story atrium that represents government openness. It is already energizing the North Loop and the Theatre District, he said.
CHICAGO 7 MOST ENDANGERED
THE ALARM ON THREATENED HISTORIC BUILDINGS
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JOSEPH JACOB (J.J.)
42 N. Central Ave. | Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright (1903) | Austin | Style: Prairie School
The Joseph Jacob (J.J.) Walser Jr. House is one of only five Prairie School structures designed by the nation’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), within the city of Chicago. A Chicago landmark, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Wright experimented there with affordability of Prairie School design: overall massing, horizontal trim, low hipped roofs with wide overhanging eaves, ribbons of windows,
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and open floor plan.
Walser and his wife, Grace, purchased the property for $4,000 in 1903. He was the son of a founder of the Goss Printing Company and a real estate developer in Austin. Between 1910 and 1970, the house was sold 11 times, altered and remodeled. Anne and Hurley Teague purchased the house in 1970, stabilized it, and protected it. However, since Anne died in 2019, the house has been unoccupied and unmaintained.
The property is also in foreclosure, with a reverse mortgage. No repairs can be undertaken without the property owner’s consent, and ownership is in legal limbo.
Preservation Chicago, along with the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Landmarks Illinois, Austin Coming Together and the City of Chicago, are collectively working to monitor the conditions of the house, engage the mortgage company and financial firm, and expedite the foreclosure. The property would be placed under the ownership of a new, long-term steward that will restore it for continued residential or appropriate adaptive reuse. As a certified historic structure, the house could utilize federal and state historic tax credits to finance repairs.
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John H. Waters, AIA, Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.
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DELAWARE BUILDING
36 W. Randolph St. | Architects: Wheelock & Thomas (1872-1974), 1889 addition by Julius Huber | The Loop | Style: Italianate
The Delaware Building is one of the few remaining examples of the “Great Rebuilding” after the Chicago Fire of 1871. It is one of the oldest commercial buildings in the Loop.
The Delaware Building was listed on the National Register and is a Chicago Landmark. McDonald's Corporation operated a restaurant on the first two floors that closed during the pandemic. Approximately 50 years remain on a 99-year lease – which the parent company has reportedly declined to sever.
As long as the lease is in place, there is no ground floor entrance, which has stymied preliminary alternative proposals, such as a planned residential conversion of the upper floors and a replacement tenant for the ground floor commercial space.
The lower levels of the Delaware Building need maintenance and are generating no revenue. As a National Register-listed property, its rehab would be potentially eligible for state and federal historic tax credits.
Preservation Chicago says the upper floors could accommodate a small hotel, multi-family residential, or continued office space, all consistent with Chicago Department of Planning and Development Historic Preservation Division initiatives.
CENTRAL MANUFACTURING DISTRICT CLOCK TOWER
2000 W. Pershing Road | Architect: Samuel Scott Joy (1917) | McKinley Park | Style: Late Gothic Revival/ Industrial Gothic
The Central Manufacturing District (CMD) Clock Tower Building is a slender, 11-story red-brick masonry and terracotta clad structure with large windows puncturing its masonry, crowned at its uppermost floors with an elaborate clock on each facade. The building functioned as a water tower while also concealing a large water tank that provided a centralized fire suppression system for the entire CMD.
The CMD was the first planned industrial district in the nation that experimented in large-scale land development, capitalized on new technologies in construction and power production, and became the national model for the post-World War II industrial park. The area was ideal for its large tracts of inexpensive land with access to railroads and a large, working-class population.
Without proper mothballing and stabilization until a new preserva-
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tion-sensitive owner comes along, the building will likely continue to deteriorate, ultimately increasing the threat of demolition by neglect. The Continental Can Company Building (on the Most Endangered list in 2020, 2021, and 2023), which was in the CMD East, was demolished in 2024.
As a contributing resource to a National Register-Listed historic district, the CMD Clock Tower Building could utilize both State (IL) and Federal (F) Historic Tax Credits (HTCs) for financing a qualified rehabilitation or adaptive reuse project. A defining element of McKinley Park/New City, local landmark designation would incentivize preservation and investment in this important component of Chicago’s industrial history.
OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH
3101 S. King Drive | Architect: Wilcox and Miller (1876) | Bronzeville/Douglas | Style: Gothic Revival
Olivet Baptist Church is the oldest African American Baptist church building, and the second oldest African American church congregation, in Chicago, a “mother church” to many Baptist churches. Organized in 1850 as Xenia Baptist and then Zoar Baptist Church, its numbers increased after an early wave of northward African American migration following Emancipation and the close of the Civil War and then again after the Great Migration began in 1916.
In 1918, Olivet Baptist Church moved into the edifice that had originally been built for First Baptist Church of Chicago, which signaled a shift from downtown and the South Loop.
The Church grew to approximately 10,000 congregants in 1920 and offered roughly 40 different social and cultural organizations. In addition to providing direct social services, the Church became increasingly involved in labor relations and municipal politics. Its Civil Rights-era pastor frequently clashed with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as overly confrontational.
The exterior of the church is clad in a rough ashlar veneer, trimmed in Joliet limestone. Its steepled square corner tower rises 160 feet and its large arched windows are situated between foliated capitals inspired by the French Gothic architecture.
As with countless churches across the nation, its challenges include an aging congregation, demographic shifts, and the considerable demands of maintaining a large, aging structure.
Formally pursuing City of Chicago Landmark status is a natural first step, says Preservation Chicago. Weatherproofing the exterior envelope of the church and addressing a series of open code violations likewise remain top priorities. The National Fund for Sacred Places and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preserving Black Churches are both excellent candidates for private support.
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WESTERN BOULEVARD INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS
4200 to 4500 S. Western Boulevard | Architect: Various | Back of the Yards | Style: Various
Eight historic industrial buildings form an intact cluster along the Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District, which was listed in the National Register in 2018. By 1919, when most of these buildings were in use, half of the city’s 400,000 wage-earning working class were employed in heavy industries. Factories and warehouses throughout Chicago, these buildings included, tell the rich history of labor, industrialization and midwestern manufacturing, a story as important to the region as it is to the nation and its growth.
Whitney & Ford used the building at 4311 S. Western Blvd. in 1921 as a warehouse for its plumbing fixtures. Today’s occupants include Chase Mechanical, Designs for Dignity and Windy City Booths.
Most of the buildings retain original windows and doors; decorative masonry, stone, and terracotta elements; clay tile roofing; rooftop water towers and ventilators; and more. Demand for industrial space such as this has evolved, but a number of these structures continue light industrial and warehousing functions.
Preservation Chicago encourages existing owners of occupied industrial buildings along South Western Boulevard to continue to promote these warehouse and factory buildings for income-producing, industrial purposes and to make much-needed repairs so as to preserve historic features, wherever possible.
As part of a National Register-listed historic district, any of these industrial buildings can utilize State (IL) and Federal (F) Historic Tax Credits (HTCs) to finance qualified rehabilitation or adaptive reuse projects.
ST. MARTIN’S CHURCH
5848 S. Princeton Ave.
| Architect: Henry J. Schlacks, Louis Becker (1895) | Englewood | Style: Gothic Revival
Built in 1895 for a German, Roman Catholic congregation when ethnic parishes were the norm in Chicago, St. Martin’s Church tells where the neighborhood has been, just as it could lead it to a better future, says Preservation Chicago.
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Originally named for St. Martin of Tours, the church was topped with a gilded statue of him, a knight on horseback that was a guidepost for planes headed to Midway Airport. Construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in 1961 caused its postwar multiethnic European, Mexican and African American population to further dwindle, until the Archdiocese of Chicago renamed the church after St. Martin de Porres, a Black Dominican lay friar.
Closed in 1989 due to low attendance, the building was sold and reopened as the Evangelical Embassy Church.
Plans for the building were drawn up in Mainz, Germany and executed by Chicago architect Henry J. Schlacks. It remains one of the finest examples of French and German Gothic architecture in the U.S., with a 228-foot-tall stone steeple atop a massive tower. Its large Gothic windows have intricate tracery and foliated ornamentation. Its stained glass windows, made in Munich and Innsbruck, are intact. It easily meets standards for landmark designation, which could facilitate public subsidies.
CLARENCE DARROW MEMORIAL BRIDGE / COLUMBIA BRIDGE
Jackson Park at 1766 Columbia Drive | Architects: Burnham and Root (1880) | Hyde Park/Woodlawn | Style: Naturalistic
The Clarence Darrow Memorial Bridge is one of few surviving architectural elements of the original Jackson Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, (the nation’s pioneer landscape architect, who also designed NYC’s Central Park). It is a rare remaining feature of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.
Unfortunately, the bridge has been closed since 2013. Its banks are overgrown with saplings and weeds, its pavement is cracked, and the Burnham and Root-designed railing is increasingly oxidized.
Olmsted’s design was guided by natural features: Jackson Park’s bogs and vegetated ridges and nearby Lake Michigan. An artificial lake, still existing today as Columbia Basin, was constructed in 1879.
This basin was the northernmost part of the Exposition’s lagoon system. Standing on the bridge, fair-goers would see the Palace of Fine Arts, (now the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry), framed by grassy slopes, clusters of trees and the basin itself. Its limestone superstructure, retaining wall, railing and walkway still original to the Burnham and Root plan, the bridge today could connect the eastern bank of the lagoon to the Garden of the Phoenix and Wooded Island. Instead, a visitor must walk around the museum, the east bank, or park along 63rd Street.
Darrow (1857-1938) was a famed 20th century defense attorney. His clients included Eugene Debs during the 1894 Pullman Strike, Leopold and Loeb and John Scopes in the 1925 Monkey Trial. Darrow lived near the bridge, contemplated his cases there, and had his ashes deposited in the Jackson Park lagoon.
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A New Beginning for Families: Hope Manor Village
Hope Manor Village (HMV), an extension of VOA Illinois' Hope Manor II Campus, is a comprehensive continuum of high-quality, affordable housing options for families in need of affordable housing. Hope Manor Village consists of 16 buildings containing 36, two-bedroom apartments. They are located on scattered lots surrounding Hope Manor II – including Green St., Sangamon St., and Peoria St. from 59th St. to 61st St. While Hope Manor Village has Veteran preference, families in need of affordable housing are encouraged to apply. The services offered to residents of Hope Manor Village are comprehensive and highly individualized to meet the unique needs of individual families. The services are multi-generational(targeting both children and adults), strength-based, gender-responsive and trauma-informed.
Services include a broad range of resources including:
Case management
Individual and family counseling
Peer support groups for a variety of issues
Financial literacy classes
Health and wellness supports
Employment support (including job coaching and employment readiness classes)
Crisis intervention support when needed.
Interested Veterans will need the following to apply:
DD214, Honorable Discharge or General Discharge Under honorable Conditions
Valid State ID or DL
Social Security Card
Birth Certificate Proof of Income
Hope Manor Village is located in Englewood on Green Street, Sangamon Street, and Peoria Street between 59th St. - 61st St.
To learn more about Hope Manor Village and the application process, call 312 564-2393.
