Details have been revealed for the multi-year renovation of the Ravinia Festival grounds at 200 Ravinia park Road in Highland Park. Located around 25-miles north of The Loop, the iconic festival has called its current grounds home for over 100-years and grown to be globally recognized and the nation’s oldest music festival.
Details have been revealed for a new community center at 7950 S Emerald Avenue in Auburn Gresham. Occupying a nearly half-block site bound by S Halsted Street to the west, the currently vacant lot will eventually be home to the new $8 million center. Efforts for this are being led by locals Eliseo and Valentina Pacheco-Cornejo.
Partial funding has been awarded for the Sunshine Community Center at 6020 S King Drive in Washington Park. Originally revealed in 2023 and approved by the city late last year, the center will replace a vacant lot on the southwest corner of Washington Park. The project is being led by Sunshine Gospel Ministries, which will be relocating from their current location nearby.
Additional funding has been awarded for After School Matters’ new location at 1065 N Orleans Avenue in the Near North Side. The project will redevelop an existing school building that was most recently the home of Architectural Artifacts before it relocated to Texas. The project is being designed by local firm Eckenhoff Saunders.
Details have been revealed for the renovation and expansion of the South Side Community Art Center at 3831 S Michigan Avenue in Bronzeville. Located just north of the intersection with E Pershing Road, the center currently operates out of a historic mansion with a vacant side yard. Design efforts are being led by Future Firm, with wrkSHäp serving as the preservation architect.
