The Centennial Forum, at 1125 W Loyola Avenue on the Loyola University Chicago campus in Rogers Park, is currently being demolished. We first visited the site back in May just as demo preparation got underway, and now the two-story concrete structure is about halfway torn down. That’s all the work of American Demolition, which received a demo permit from the City of Chicago on May 23.
The City of Chicago issued a demolition permit for 2841 N Southport Avenue in the Lake View neighborhood on Monday, June 17. Construction fencing already surrounds the four-story frame residential structure, as well as the garage at the rear of the property, which will also be removed. Tir Conaill Concrete is listed as the demo contractor.
207 West Superior is already gone. Now, 720 North Wells is meeting the same fate, as demolition of the two structures continues in River North. Dating back to the 1870s, the three-story brick and cast-iron building at 720 N Wells Street “slipped through the cracks” of Chicago’s survey of historically significant buildings, according to Preservation Chicago’s Ward Miller in this Chicago Tribune story about the demolitions.
Lake View Lutheran Church, at 835 W Addison Street in the Lake View neighborhood, received a demolition permit from the City of Chicago on May 31. That allows for the development of a 37-unit affordable apartment building, dubbed Lakeview Landing, to be built on the site.
Demolition work has begun at 1125 W Loyola Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood. That’s the address of Centennial Forum, on the campus of Loyola University Chicago. The two-story building served as event space for the school.
