Most endangered Chicago buildings list includes Pope Leo’s childhood church and Art Institute trading room • Capital One laying off another 1,100-plus employees at former Discover headquarters in Riverwoods
Working Lunch Thursday, March 5, 2026 | | |
| | | | | Each year since 2003, Preservation Chicago has highlighted historical places or objects that could be lost to demolition if action is not taken to restore them. | | | | | Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church and the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room at the Art Institute made Preservation Chicago’s annual ranking of the city’s most endangered buildings. | | | | | Capital One is laying off another 1,139 employees at the former Discover headquarters in Riverwoods, a second wave of downsizing following the credit card giants’ megamerger last year. | | | | | A super PAC created by Meta has spent nearly $340,000 on on mailers and digital advertising to support four Chicago and Chicago-area Democratic state House primary candidates. | | | | | This four-level, five-bedroom home was originally built in 1880 and renovated between 2013 and 2015, preserving the historic brick facade. | | | | | The LA city council voted unanimously on Wednesday to designate the the so-called “Brady Bunch” house in the San Fernando Valley as a historic-cultural monument. | | | | | Optimism around an ambitious United Auto Workers campaign has faded. | | | | | The Chicago Fire hosted a groundbreaking event for their privately funded $750 million soccer stadium on a vacant former rail yard in the South Loop, staking their turf in the city’s competitive sports landscape. | | | |