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"For years my dream was that somebody would rescue the Cornell building and make it a useful neighborhood asset" in Grand Crossing, Chicago cultural historian emeritus Tim Samuleson said. Now his dream may come true.

Vacant and deteriorating for an unknown length of time, the Cornell Store & Flats has a contract pending from a buyer, according to the sellers, who've done little to stop its decline since buying it in 2015.

Newsletter Signup Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Twenty-one months into the pandemic, and with 99 percent of undergraduates fully vaccinated, Cornell finally hit “Alert Level Red.” On the one hand, this is very surprising — after all, we have so many more tools to combat the virus than we had last year. On the other […]

As Cornellians flocked to campus on Thursday for the beginning of an entirely in-person semester - the first in over a year - their excitement and optimism brightened the summery day.

Ceremonies for Cornell’s 153rd graduating class will look different due to safety protocols arising from the pandemic – but it promises to be as festive and joyous as ever.

Preservation Chicago called on the city and the Chicago Park District to seek a national park designation for Chicago's entire lakefront, which topped the group's new list of Chicago's most endangered historic places.

The historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration, made Preservation Chicago’s list of the city’s “7 Most Endangered Buildings” on Thursday. Supporters are fighting to save the home that’s poised to be torn down. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times The Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, a historic settlement house...

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