Secretly Tearing Down Chicago

A sad-but-interesting story from our local paper, the Chicago Tribune, about historic buildings here being saved but only in tiny slivers. The story goes that, in order to keep the buildings around, development companies are shaving off just the front of their exteriors, then building back, leaving only a tiny remnant of what used to be. So from the street, it looks like the building has been preserved, but from afar, you see it’s just a lot of smoke and mirrors.