A Farewell to Farwell and Potentially All of Old Chicago

A scary bit of architectural information that plopped in our collective laps this morning. It’s from Lynn Becker about a vote the Commission on Chicago Landmarks will be taking tomorrow to decide if it’s okay to tear down the designated landmark, The Farwell Building, in order to build in that location. By doing so, Becker claims this will open the flood gates by making it that much easier to disregard buildings with landmark status and start bulldozing them into oblivion to make room for more ugly new cookie cutter buildings (our words on that last part, not hers).