Last Minute Pleas Made to Try and Save Remaining Michael Reese Hospital Buildings

Speaking of the architecture of our past, there’s been some past-the-11th-hour movement here in Chicago to save the remaining Walter Gropius-designed buildings that are a part of the Michael Reese Hospital. Despite years of activism to try and save the whole complex, several of the buildings have already met their maker via a wrecking ball and construction crews, but late this past Friday it seemed as though the rest might have a fighting chance as the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council voted unanimously to “recommend