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More and more events are happening in Chicago, and we want you to know about the best of the best!
The SportsWise team discusses Tom Brady's retirement.
Cover Story: Sidney Poitier
Although revolutionary screen actor Sidney Poitier has passed, his legacy extends far beyond film, including the role he played during the civil rights movement.
Chicago's Adopt-A-Landmark program is providing an incentive for downtown developers to leverage preservation of landmarks in neighborhoods across Chicago.
The Playground ON THE COVER: Actor Sidney Poitier during the panel discussion for "An Academy Centennial Salute to Joseph L. Mankiewicz" on Thursday, May 21, 2009 (Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.). THIS PAGE: Oscar®-winning actor Sidney Poitier speaks as part of the award presentation to Honorary Award recipient George Stevens Jr. during the 2012 Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, CA, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 (Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S. photo).
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ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time. To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of things you do at home and why you love them to Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org
Based on a True Story!
'Come From Away' Experience the Tony-winning musical based on a true story. W hen the Federal Aviation Administration closed U.S. airspace to inbound traffic immediately after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the town of Gander, Newfoundland provided hospitality for 7,000 stranded passengers on 38 planes. "Come From Away" runs February 22 through March 6 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St. Tickets are $31+. More information, including performance times, can be found at broadwayinchicago.com .
Treat Her Like a Lady!
'An Instrument In the Shape of a Woman' Think you know the shape of a woman? From February 26 to September 4 at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., 5th Floor, experience the brilliantly bright and provocative forms and figures of surreal and abstract psychological portraitures that embrace the feminine mystique through new and explorative lenses. “An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman” exhibition is by Leslie Baum, Diana Christiansen and Selina Trepp with Annie Morse. Exhibits will feature three channel video installation. Admission is FREE and open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit chicago.gov.
Squash It!
(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT
Windy City Open The 2022 Windy City Open Squash competition will be February 23 through March 2. This Professional Squash Association World Series International Tour will feature the world's top men and women squash professionals as they smash and batter their way to the $500,000 prize. Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The event will take place within the intimate and historic Cathedral Hall at the University Club of Chicago, 76 E. Monroe St. For game schedule and more, visit windycityopen.ussquash.com. Tickets are $21+.
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Can't Take It With You!
'Everybody' Join this comedic medieval morality play presented by Loyola University of Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Road. The groundbreaking adaptation of Branden Jacob Jenkins’s “Everybody” considers the things we carry into death and our lasting impressions on Earth. The play will be just as unpredictable as life as actors are assigned a new role every night. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through February 27. In-person tickets are $10-25 and livestream tickets are $10. A talkback with medieval scholar Edward Wheatley and dramaturg Minh Hà (Millie) Lê will follow the performance on February 25 and will focus on the themes of “Everyman,” the play on which Jenkins’ “Everybody” is based on. To purchase tickets, visit luc.universitytickets.com.
Theater for All!
Chicago Theatre Week 2022 Experience the gift of theatre for the best price of the year. Chicago’s Theatre Week runs from February 17 through February 27 and encourages people of all ages and backgrounds to sample the extraordinary theatrical talents throughout the Chicago area. Partake in musicals, improv, dramas, and beyond, for this brief, week-long event for just $15 or $30 (or less). Selections include “Hertha Nova,” “Drunk Shakespeare,” “Evita,” “Gem of the Ocean,” and lots more. To see all Theatre Week titles and times, go to choosechicago.com.
Lunch & A Mezzo-Soprano
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert: Katherine Beck and Chris Reynolds Enjoy the gorgeous combination of piano and voice in the upcoming Dame Myra Concert, featuring the wonderful performances of mezzo-soprano Katherine Beck and Chris Reynolds on piano. This duet will feature the stunning sounds of Joseph Haydn’s “Arianna a Naxos, Hob.XXVIb:2,” Gioachino Rossini “Una voce poco fa” from “Il barbiere di Siviglia,” H. Leslie Adams’ “For You There is No Song” from “Five Millay Songs,” Florence Price’s “Night,” and Stephen Sondheim’s “No One is Alone” from “Into the Woods.” The performance will be 12:15 - 1 p.m. February 23 at Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist, Chicago, 55 E. Wacker Drive. The concert is free to the public and is available in-person, online, and through their radio broadcast. To register for the performance, see imfchicago.org.
Becoming Herself!
Ayanah Moor: 'I Wish I Could Be You More Often' Until April 10, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, presents the work of Ayanah Moor entitled “I Wish I Could Be You More Often.” The exhibit will showcase how her paintings, prints, drawings, and performances open the conversation on Blackness and gender identity and how both take shape within the visual field. Her work is both subversive and beautiful, reimaginative and healing as it displays the love, fear, myth, and desire that exists within her and her history. A reception and artist discussion of her work will be 3-5 p.m. March 5. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11-5 p.m. Admission is free to the public. For more information, visit theccma.org
Author, Poet, Lawyer, Activist!
Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People To celebrate the American Writers Museum’s upcoming online exhibit about Pauli Murray—author, poet, lawyer, and activist—a virtual event will tell the untold story of this Episcopal priest who broke records and barriers throughout her life and her legacy on women’s rights. The discussion will be lead by Deborah Nelson Linck, author of upcoming book “Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People” to be released in May 2022. Linck is an educator and writer and founder of the Hands on Black History Museum. The free event will be at 6:30 p.m. February 22. Registration is on Eventbrite.com.
Artistic Dualities!
HATCH + BOLT Celebrate art, culture, and the wonders of the human experience at the Chicago Artists Coalition, 2130 W. Fulton St. Supporting emerging Chicago artists, the Chicago Artists Coalition is hosting two different exhibits. “Timely Sanctification” will feature new works by their HATCH artists-in-residence Jade Williams and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney. Accompanying sound pieces are provided by Devin Shaffer. The exhibit will encompass the artist's journey of self-discovery and spiritual and familial influences. The second solo exhibit will feature the work of their BOLT artist-in-residence Selva Aparicio that explores themes of death, memory, and mourning to revitalize and remember the forgotten. Both exhibits will be open from February 25 through April 7 every Wednesday through Friday from 11-5 p.m. and Saturdays from 12-4 p.m. Opening receptions will take place on February 25 from 5-8 p.m. Admission is free. For more information about the museum or exhibits, visit chicagoartistscoalition.org.
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Vendors Russ Adams, John Hagan and Donald Morris chat about the world of sports with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards.
Donald: All right. So, of course, Tom Brady has a lot of inspiring things going on. He’s broken a ton of records in his 22-year career. A great competitor, a good guy and, basically, I believe his wife had the last thing to say in regard to him retiring. Russ: Dag, Don, it’s like that? Donald: Uh-uh, hear me out. Just like any other great person in society, the woman primarily influences the decision for that man—or woman—to let go. Behind every great person, there is a great woman.
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John: But why would she want him to stop now? Donald: His kids, man. He’s talked before about how nice it is to have a full off-season to be with his family full-time, but how much nicer it would be to be there full time. Shoot, he said he could physically play until he’s 50-55, but his mental and emotional "wants" are with his family. Well, he’ll now have it.
John: Agreed. Well, to take it back a bit, Tom is a legendary quarterback; only a 6th-round selection out of Michigan, he wasn’t heralded or, even, expected to be more than a spotstarter. Boy, did he prove everyone wrong. Patrick: Shoot, I’d forgotten he was drafted that low. John: Right. And, after taking over for the injured New England Patriot Drew Bledsoe in 2001, Tom didn’t only hold down the quarterback position, he perfected it like no other. Only Joe Montana can be put in that category with him. When you count his 7 Super Bowl rings—6 with New England, 1 with Tampa Bay—it makes you wonder what might’ve been for those who passed up on Brady. Same question could be asked of those who passed up the opportunity to get the Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick in 2000.
Russ: Sounds like you’re about to reference the Dallas Cowboys. John: Bingo. The Cowboys passed up Randy Moss in the 1998 draft, Brady in the 2000 draft, and didn’t hire Belichick in 2000. Think about that: Brady passing to Moss, and Belichick on the sideline frowning in joy—can y’all say NFL dynasty? At least 6 championships in 10 years. Patrick: Easy. Well, look, fellas, I’ve been looked at funny by many when I say I’m a fan of Tom Brady, but I don't care. His precision, his stealthiness…those attributes kept me with him. I’m not even sure if it was his winning; of course, that helped the good feelings flow, but his talent was something else. I mean, every season, he was methodically dropping off folks. 4-yard pass here, 2-yard handoff run, 11-yard pass across the middle; repeat…until the touchdown
was secured. No one could completely shut him down. Amazing. I’m sad to see him go, but I’m happy for him and his family. Russ: Patrick, I’m with you. A lil’ backstory, y’all. I was a huge Drew Bledsoe fan, so I was watching the Patriots already, so the next year when Bledsoe got hurt and Brady stepped in and won immediately, there was tension when Bledsoe got healthy. The coach could do nothing but stick with Brady, who was winning everything. The Patriots won by a field goal, and the rest is history. And, man, there was one game that the Patriots were down 28-3 in a Super Bowl—against Atlanta—and Brady and the Patriots pulled off the comeback. Donald: Enough said. Any comments or suggestions? Email pedwards@streetwise.org
Sidney Poitier
Hollywood's First Black Leading Man reflected the Civil Rights Movement On Screen by Aram Goudsouzian
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the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Their guest, he said, was his “soul brother.” “He has carved for himself an imperishable niche in the annals of our nation’s history,” King told the audience of 2,000 delegates. “I consider him a friend. I consider him a great friend of humanity.” That man was Sidney Poitier. Poitier, who died at 94 on January 7, broke the mold of what a Black actor could be in Hollywood. Before the 1950s, Black movie characters generally reflected racist stereotypes such as lazy servants and beefy mammies. Then came Poitier, the only Black man to consistently win leading roles in major films from the late 1950s through the late 1960s. Like King, Poitier projected ideals of respectability and integrity. He attracted not only the loyalty of African Americans, but also the goodwill of white liberals. In my biography of him, titled “Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon,” I sought to capture his whole life, including his incredible rags-to-riches arc, his sizzling vitality on screen, his personal triumphs and foibles and his quest to live up to the values set forth by his Bahamian parents. But the most fascinating aspect of Poitier’s career, to me, was his political and racial symbolism. In many ways, his screen life intertwined with that of the civil rights movement – and King himself.
An age of protests In three separate columns in 1957, 1961 and 1962, a New York Daily News columnist named Dorothy Masters marveled that Poitier had the warmth and charisma of a minister. Poitier lent his name and resources to King’s causes, and he participated in demonstrations such as the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage and the 1963 March on Washington. In this era of sit-ins, Freedom Rides and mass marches, activists engaged in nonviolent sacrifice not only to highlight racist oppression, but also to win broader sympathy for the cause of civil rights.
INSET: Sidney Poitier in 1963 (Robert Gerard photo).
In that same vein, Poitie r de libe rately chose to portray characters who radiated goodness. They had decent values and helped white characters, and they often sacrificed themselves. He earned his first star billing in 1958, in “The Defiant Ones,” in which he played an escaped prisoner handcuffed to a racist played by Tony Curtis. At the end, with the chain unbound, Poitier jumps off a train to stick with his new white friend. Writer James Baldwin reported seeing the film on Broadway, where white audiences clapped with reassurance, their racial guilt alleviated. When he saw it again in Harlem, members of the predominantly Black audience yelled “Get back on the train, you fool!” King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. In that same year, Poitier won the Oscar for Best Actor for “Lilies of the Field,” in which he played Homer Smith, a traveling handyman who builds a chapel for German nuns out of the goodness of his heart. The sweet, low-budget movie was a surprise hit. In its own way, like the horrifying footage of water hoses and police dogs attacking civil rights activists, it fostered swelling support for racial integration.
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A better man By the time of the actor’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference speech, both King and Poitier seemed to have a slipping grip on the American public. Bloody and destructive riots plagued the nation’s cities, reflecting the enduring discontent of many poor African Americans. The swelling calls for “Black Power” challenged the ideals of nonviolence and racial brotherhood – ideals associated with both King and Poitier. When Poitier stepped to the lectern that evening, he lamented the “greed, selfishness, indifference to the suffering of others, corruption of our value system, and a moral deterioration that has already scarred our souls irrevocably. On my bad days,” he said, “I am guilty of suspecting that there is a national death wish.” By the late 1960s, both King and Poitier had reached a crossroads. Federal legislation was dismantling Jim Crow in the South, but African Americans still suffered from limited opportunity. King prescribed a “revolution of values,” denounced the Vietnam War, and launched a Poor People’s Campaign. Poitier, in his 1967 speech for the SCLC, said that King, by adhering to his convictions for social justice and human dignity, “has made a better man of me.”
Exceptional characters Poitier tried to adhere to his own convictions. As long as he was the only Black leading man, he insisted on playing the same kind of hero. But in the era of Black Power, had Poitier’s saintly hero become another stereotype? His rage was repressed, his sexuality stifled. A Black critic, writing in The New York Times, asked “Why Does White America Love Sidney Poitier So?” That critic had a point: As Poitier himself knew, his films created too-perfect characters. Although the films allowed white audiences to appreciate a Black man, they also implied that racial equality depends on such exceptional characters, stripped of any racial baggage. From late 1967 into early 1968, three of Poitier’s movies owned the top spot at the box office, and a poll ranked him the most bankable star in Hollywood.
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President Barack Obama presents Academy Awardwinning actor Sidney Poitier with the Medal of Freedom in 2009 (Chip Somodevilla photo).
and social despair – even as more African Americans, baby boomers and film critics tired of the old-fashioned do-gooder spirit of these movies.
Intertwined lives And then, the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Sidney Poitier intersected one final time. After King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, Poitier was a stand-in for the ideal that King embodied. When he presented at the Academy Awards, Poitier won a massive ovation. “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” captured most of the major awards. Hollywood again dealt with the nation’s racial upheaval through Poitier movies.
Each film provided a hero who soothed the liberal center. His mannered schoolteacher in “To Sir, With Love” tames a class of teenage ruffians in London’s East End. His razorsharp detective in “In the Heat of the Night” helps a crotchety white Southern sheriff solve a murder. His world-renowned doctor in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” marries a white woman, but only after winning the blessing of her parents.
But after King’s violent murder, the Poitier icon no longer captured the national mood. In the 1970s, a generation of “Blaxploitation” films featured violent, sexually charged heroes. They were a reaction against the image of a Black leading man associated with Poitier. Although his career evolved, Poitier was no longer a superstar, and he no longer bore the burden of representing the Black freedom movement. Yet for a generation, he had served as popular culture’s preeminent expression of the ideals of Martin Luther King.
“I try to make movies about the dignity, nobility, the magnificence of human life,” he insisted. Audiences flocked to his films, in part, because he transcended racial division
Aram Goudsouzian is the Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis. Courtesy of The Conversation.
Zoning code encourages development of Chicago Landmarks by Cora Saddler & Suzanne Hanney
A density bonus incentive for downtown developers is leveraging preservation of landmarks in neighborhoods across Chicago. According to the Chicago zoning code updated in 2016, downtown developers pay into a fund to receive greater floor area ratio (FAR). The resulting Neighborhood Opportunity Bonus encourages commercial development in neighborhoods lacking private investment. Priority is given to landmarks whose exterior renovation is visible from the street and whose interiors are accessible to the public. These are buildings that can become neighborhood anchors or centers of community life. Holy Trinity Cathedral (see related story page 12) was one of four landmarks awarded $250,000 in 2019, along with On Leong Merchants Association, 2212 S. Wentworth Ave.; Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church (Minnekirken), 2610 N. Kedzie Ave.; and Beverly Unitarian Church, 10244 S. Longwood Drive. Last November, the Greenstone United Methodist Church, 11211 S. St. Lawrence in the historic Pullman neighborhood, was among 12 Adopt-a-Landmark awardees. Its $1.08 million grant will go a long way towards a restoration that could cost up to $2.4 million, said the Rev. Luther Mason, pastor, in a telephone interview. The Greenstone Church simply completed the picture of perfection that George Pullman had for his namesake model industrial town of the 1880s, 12 miles south of downtown Chicago, Mason said. In addition to brick townhouses for the workers at his company, which built railroad sleeping cars for 19th century transcontinental travel, there was an arcade building, a market hall, a hotel – but no saloons. Built in 1882, the church has a façade of green serpentine stone quarried in Pennsylvania, its original cherry wood altar and pews, 90 percent of its stained-glass windows and its manual tracker organ – one of the few in the United States. But in all its 140 years, the porous serpentine stone has been a problem, Mason said. Where the stone was improperly placed, it has worn down to the church’s underlying brick structure. Acid rain from nearby steel mills compounded the erosion. The church’s 92-foot bell tower has been stabilized and its roof replaced, thanks to American Express, the United Methodist Church and the Landmarks Illinois Timuel D. Black Jr. Grant Fund for Chicago’s South Side. The roof came in $20,000 under budget, said Mason, who has a background in construction management. Twenty church members – most of them on fixed income – have committed to raising $1,000 each. Mason is also optimistic about two other six-figure grants. “Folks that don’t get it think it’s about the stained glass and pipe organs,” Mason said. “It is and it isn’t. When you restore the building, you restore relationships.” Since President Barack Obama named the diverse Pullman a National Monument in February 2015, “There is something about this little town that Pullman built, that history, that is still alive. It’s an amazing time to live in Pullman,” Mason said. Obama cited the town’s labor history in his dedication speech. During a recession in winter 1893-94, Pullman cut wages—but not rents— in the town. When a union grievance committee visited him, he retaliated by firing them. The union went on strike the next day and tied up railroad traffic across the nation until the federal government intervened on behalf of the company.
The beautiful Greenstone United Methodist Church in process of restoration (photos courtesy of the church).
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Continued from page 9..., African Americans made Pullman history, too – not in the factory, but as porters on the sleeping cars. Because the job afforded a cosmopolitan life, the porters held a position of respect in the Black community, according to National Park Service material. In 1937, the Pullman Company signed a contract with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters for higher salaries, better job security and better grievance procedures – the first major labor agreement between an African American union and a major corporation. The National A. Philip Randolph Museum on the north side of Pullman tells the story of the man who led the Brotherhood for four decades. Pullman has long been divided north-south by 111th Street, but the National Park Service doesn’t see boundaries, Mason said, and is working with everyone to make things happen. Justice work comes first, he said. Pullman dreamed of a school for manual labor, and Mason is part of a group that formed a nonprofit Pullman Tech Workshop, in which people will do construction training focused on historic preservation. Original Pullman worker cottages, for example, have unique wooden porches, which must be replicated if they are torn down in an historic district. The nonprofit will start construction training in the spring in partnership with the Revolution Workshop Training program on the West Side, whose current population is 60 percent South Siders. Administrative offices will be in the church. Greenstone has been under Methodist care since 1907. The current church is a merger of three previous congregations, which turned mostly Black in the 1970s and 80s. During the pandemic, the congregation grew with church services on Zoom, and with worshipping outside from Palm Sunday into November. Mason called on his experience as a 1980s DJ for the latter. But walking down the street afterward, people called out to him about his sermons, so he knew they were listening there, too. Live music and art festivals have brought tourism to Pullman. Mason sees Greenstone’s potential to augment that, to be a “beacon of the community,” where people can worship together, have community dinners, study the bible, “listen to a pipe organ concert, cry or bicker.” Mason is now in his ninth year at Greenstone, but 15 years ago, he was working construction and driving by on I-94 when he stopped to see the Pullman factory clock tower and the Greenstone steeple. He knew nothing about the church, except that it was quiet and serene. “Man, I’d love to serve that church one day,” he recalled. A few years later, the Methodist district superintendent called him to pastor there, because, with his background, he could assess the church and parsonage infrastructure. “I definitely want to stay here to see this through,” he said. “I wouldn’t mind staying here until mandatory retirement at 72.”
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Other November 2021 Adopt-a-Landmark awardees include: Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, 4501 S. Vincennes Ave., granted $900,000, is the last building designed by Dankmar Adler—a German-born American architect and engineer whose partnership with Louis Sullivan created a new architectural style characterized by modern art features. Built in 1889 as Isaiah Temple, this landmark possesses fine acoustics for its 1,200seat auditorium, vaulted ceilings, and horseshoe gallery. The grant seeks also to honor gospel singers the church produced, such as Mahalia Jackson, Sallie Martin, Ruth Jones, and Dinah Washington.
Second Presbyterian Church, 1936 S. Michigan Ave., granted $250,000 for maintenance and upkeep. Built in 1874 by prominent New York architect James Renwick Jr., the GothicRevival-style church was reconstructed by Howard Van Doren Shaw after a 1900 fire. Known for its original spotted limestone, elegant Louis Comfort Tiffany windows, and Arts & Crafts interior, the church was home to the prominent Glessners, Pullmans, and the widow of Abraham Lincoln. It is a National Historic Landmark.
Muddy Waters House, 4339 S. Lake Park Ave., granted $250,000 to preserve the legacy of McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters, father of the Chicago Blues. Waters entered a contract – the only option available to Blacks in that era – to buy the home in 1954. Because of his financial stability, he was able to pay it off in 1963. With two stories and a basement, the home provided rehearsal space and hospitality (lodging and food) to Blues legends like Paul Oscher, Little Walter, Otis Spann, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry and James Cotton.
Gunnison Street Lofts, 1215 W. Gunnison St. in the Uptown Square District, $250,000. The Uptown Square District is one of the best-surviving commercial and entertainment-based neighborhoods of the early 20th century. Many of the exuberant structures were inspired by the fantasy style architecture of the Venetian Gothic and Spanish Baroque Revival, with Art Deco influences, and ostentatious terracotta designs.
Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3622 W. Douglas Blvd., $250,000 for preservation and restoration. Built in 1925 as a synagogue and refuge for Jewish immigrants escaping persecution in Romania, it became a Baptist congregation in 1954. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. campaigned for civil rights there during the Chicago Freedom Movement. Still decorated with Jewish religious symbols, the church combines eclectic influences of Romanesque, Classical, and Moorish architecture.
K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple - Kehilat Anshei Ma-arav (K.A.M.) Isaiah Israel Temple, 5039 S. Greenwood Ave., $250,000. The oldest Jewish congregation in Chicago, K.A.M. was organized in 1847, and Isaiah Israel was founded in 1852. The congregations merged in 1971 and are known for a commitment to social justice and reform, with programs for refugee rights and alleviating food scarcity. Alfred S. Alschuler was the architect for the Byzantine structure built in 1924.
6901 S. Oglesby [Ave.] Cooperative Apartment Buildings, $249,999 for protection and preservation. With the rising cost of both land and labor, apartment living became the most affordable and necessary option for both the lower and middle class. Exemplifying the early stages of real-estate history and the beginning of high-rise cooperatives along Lake Michigan and the South Side, this 11-story English Gothic style co-op, built in 1928-29, illustrates the beginning of the visually distinctive, lakefront skyline.
Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House - On Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett Till was brutally tortured and lynched. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open casket at his Chicago funeral. She continued to live in this home in the tightly-knit West Woodlawn neighborhood until 1962. She dedicated the rest of her life to keeping her son’s memory alive and advancing the Civil Rights movement. Located at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Ave., the house will receive $249,541.
Pentecostal Church of Holiness - The brick building at 4208 W. 15th St. with the distinctive bell tower, $248,000. Designed by architect Louis Gunzel in a Romanesque Revival style with Art Deco finishes, the church was built in 1931-32 by Czech immigrants. Subsequent Bishop Michael R. Dempsey helped thousands of Chicagoans find jobs and improve housing conditions during the 60s and 70s. The building remains a place for community gathering and for receiving assistance.
Former Schlitz Brewery-Tied House, 9401 S. Ewing Ave., built in 1907, $243,260 to preserve the history of brewing companies, its Queen Anne and Tudor Revival style architecture, and its effect on the larger community. Adopting the “tied house” system, Chicago taverns were controlled by large breweries that sold their products exclusively. High architectural designs and styles were commissioned to attract customers and counter the anti-alcohol activism of the day. Schlitz Brewery has ties to the German ethnic community.
John J. Glessner House, 1800 S. Prairie Ave., is the only remaining Chicago building by renowned American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Finished in 1887 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, Glessner House's cold, rugged exterior is contrasted with its warm, inviting interior designed for comfort and hospitality. John J. Glessner considered the home as a symbol of happy family life and simplicity amidst the ornate designs of the Gilded Age. A grant of $100,000 will preserve its legacy on Prairie Avenue.
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restoration of louis sullivan-designed by Stella Kapetan
The congregation of Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago's Ukrainian Village, one of two houses of worship designed by architect Louis Sullivan and the only one still operating in that capacity, has completed the largest restoration in its history. “The work that was done here is a testament that we have been and will continue to be here for another 130 years,” said the Rev. Alexander Koranda, parish priest since 2017. Metal trim around the church and rectory roof and windows – which had rusted and rotted to the extent that birds were nesting in the space -- was repaired. Missing pieces were replicated. The flat material used to fill in the cracks in the stucco over the years was stripped, the cracks were refilled and texturized and the entire exterior was painted. The rectory glass block windows were replaced with original style double pane windows, and the stairs were rebuilt. There are plans to reopen the rectory vestibule that was enclosed years ago. Of the $600,000 restoration cost, parishioners and word of mouth raised all but $250,000, which came from the Citywide Adopt-aLandmark Fund, leveraged by downtown development (see related story page 9).
Before After
Holy Trinity Church at 1121 N. Leavitt St. was founded in 1892 by Carpatho-Russian immigrants from Russia and Western Ukraine and led by the Rev. John Kochurov. Their efforts to raise the $27,000 building cost received a boost from Russian Czar Nicholas II’s $4,000 donation, part of a tradition of state-subsidized churches. A number of architects submitted plans – some quite elaborate – to Kochurov. According to a Holy Trinity fundraising letter in 2008, the Russian Empire pavilion at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair had attracted much public interest because of its styling like an ornate Orthodox church. Charles R. Crane, Chicago heir to the plumbing fixtures fortune, admired Russian culture and became interested in the building of the church. He was also a donor, as was Harold McCormick of the namesake Chicago farm implement company. Crane introduced Sullivan to Kochurov. Koranda said that what started for Sullivan as another business project turned into a fondness for the congregation. “Sullivan fell in love with the project,” he said. “He liked working with the people.” The church has in its archives a letter Sullivan wrote on Aug. 26, 1903, to Prince Nicholas W. Eugatilcheff, Russian Vice Consul and a member of the building committee, in which he expresses this kinship. “I would like to call your attention to a little matter, in the hope it may influence other well-wishers of your church: - My usual charge for work of this character and cost.…is 10% (ten per centum) upon the cost. However, my relations with Baron M. Schippenbach, yourself, and Mr. Charles R. Crane, have been for years so cordial, and our mutual desire to see a beautiful little Russian Church erected in this city, so great and enthusiastic, that I consented to do the work for 5% commission - which
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means - practically - cost to me - and in money terms, a donation of $1250.70 to the church. “I have had no reason whatever to regret this act of mine, and hope, only, that it may influence other well wishers, to contribute liberally, so that in the course of the ensuing year or two we may see our beautiful little church decorated in color outside and inside in the rich and beautiful way we all have had in mind - This accomplished, your church structure will be one of the most unique and poetic buildings in the country. “Let us hasten the day! With sincere regard to yourself and to all your co-workers. “Truly yours Louis H. Sullivan” Sullivan designed a simple building similar to the parishioners’ rural churches in Russia. The 47-foot-by 98-foot church has a central octagonal dome and a bell tower, each topped by an onion dome and a cross.
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Left: Priest Alexander Koranda, Cathedral Dean. Above: St. John Kochurov of Chicago, builder of Holy Trinity Cathedral. Right: Rev. John Kochurov was canonized as a saint after he was killed in 1917 by Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution for leading a prayer service and procession for peace through the town of Tsarskoye Selo. Sullivan can be seen in the mid-left image. All images courtesy of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church.
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Left: The facade of Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral under renovation. Above: Holy Trinity Orthodox Church after renovation. Left: Holy Trinity's Rectory before and after renovation.
“Original parishioners were from more humble areas than major Russian metropolises,” Koranda said, adding that the bell tower, dome, the three distinct parts and the arches make it “intimate and Orthodox in its architecture. The church gives you a grand feeling, and you feel the presence of God through the architecture, but it’s not overwhelming.” Sullivan also designed the arch above the entrance doors and donated the glass, multi-colored chandelier that hangs in the sanctuary. The building was completed and consecrated in 1903. It became a cathedral in 1923 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Today, the Cathedral has 113 active adult members. Half are converts to Orthodoxy, while the others are a mix of foreign and native born, lifelong Orthodox Latvians, Romanians, Slavic, Greeks and Russians, some who can trace their ancestors to the founders. It is important to Koranda and the parishioners that the Cathedral serve the community. The Cathedral Kitchen ministry serves a hot lunch onsite to the homeless and others in need every Saturday, and four different 12-step programs meet in the rectory building. Ko-
randa is on the advisory board of nearby AMITA Health Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center. He said he keeps the front doors open “every time I am in the cathedral -- for services or for work. The only time the doors are closed is during unpredictable weather.” Koranda said that neighbors, people visiting the hospital and those commuting to and from work who want to “clear their heads” often drop in. “There is something that speaks to their soul that brings them in. People carry very heavy burdens and crosses throughout their life and coming to the church allows them to seek meaningful help from the Lord. For my part, I simply open the door, offer a kind word, or even pray with those who walk in. My main role is not to interfere.” The restoration has Koranda and the parishioners looking to the future. “We see so many churches being sold, demolished, and even repurposed, but thank God, we have restored our temple for its proper use - to glorify God,” he said.
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