Campion Hall on the Loyola University campus in Rogers Park is mostly rubble now, with only remnants of the east and south walls still remaining. Heneghan Wrecking is on site clearing the block-long property for Loyola’s future six-story nursing, forensic sciences, chemistry, and biochemistry facility for the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Rendering by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects
The Chicago Plan Commission approved the project in July, and a permit to demolish the former dormitory structure came through on October 8. A waiting construction permit in the Chicago Data Portal since September 3 would allow caissons and foundations to begin, through level 1. Caissons are to go to a depth of 100 feet, and the earth-retention system calls for a 150-foot depth. Loyola’s initial timeline shows said work scheduled for winter 2025, so that permit could be issued any day now.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Rendering by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Woodhouse Tinucci Architects designed the new facility, and Power Construction is on board as the general contractor. The building will rise about 90 feet in height and include over 150,000 square feet of space. The basement level will add an additional 40,000 square feet of usable space. Loyola expects completion of the project for the fall 2028 semester.
Photo by Daniel Schell
Rendering by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
Rendering by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects
Photo by Daniel Schell
Photo by Daniel Schell
The demolition site is one block north of Loyola’s former Centennial Forum, which was demolished this summer. The university has yet to announce permanent plans for that site, though a renovation permit issued early in November allowed modifications to Mertz Hall that will help enable construction of a “new academic building” to the immediate west where Centennial Hall stood.
Centennial Hall demolition, June 2025. Photo by Daniel Schell
Centennial Hall demolition, June 2025. Photo by Daniel Schell
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Ahh, nothing like demolition rubble with your morning coffee….
I love the rendering of the new building. Nice balance between brick and glass
As a slightly irrate university neighbor, I’m required to say I wish they would find some funds to do something with the multiple empty lots they own on the off-campus side of Loyola Avenue. Other than use them as makeshift parking, construction staging and a junkyard for 20+ years.
To BeMoreYIMBY, Loyola has been knocking buildings down for a long time with campus expansions or adding new parking lots. And ugh do they need that many? The very worst demolition they did many years ago was the Granada Theater on Sheridan in the early 1990s. Though it also hurt when the arcade building on the east side of the 6300 north block of Broadway was demolished more recently. Not to forget longer ago in the early to mid 90s when the corner building on southwest corner of Broadway and Devon got demolished for Checkers(site now Starbucks). I have no doubt this university would tear down the Bruno’s Liquors building on Sheridan(on top of everything else on that block that was demolished years ago), if not for the refusal of Bruno’s all those years ago to sell to Loyola. I admire Bruno’s for refusing to sell to them.
The next demolition to watch for in this area that will hurt to see, is the several floor apartment building on Loyola Ave that used to house several businesses including Archie’s Cafe. Honesty I would liked to see the university(which knows nothing but how to tear down buildings) do some creative reuse of that building, even if it meant an upper floors addition or an addition to the west side of this building. The building at 6101 N. Clark had an upper floors addition done sometime in the late 2000s to early 2010s.