Help the Urban Observer Spend $1 Million?
(photos by Lee Bey)
Ok, well it isn't just me, but a team of us who were selected by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express as part of this year's Partners in Preservation campaign. The effort, announced yesterday in Chicago, allows you to vote to help us figure out which 25 key historic places in the city and collar counties will get part of a $1 million pot of preservation money, set aside by AmEx. Will it be Quinn Chapel AME Church? Or one of the domes at the Cultural Center? A fish hatchery in Sugar Grove? Louis Sullivan's last remaining church? Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House? The South Side Community Arts Center? Or the Fountain of Time sculpture by Lorado Taft, pictured above, or the whimsical animal sculptures of the old Jane Addams public housing project (pictured below) Click on the link above for more info. Also check out Blair Kamin's piece here and sidebar here.
