• Landmarks Illinois joined a coalition of preservation partners in calling attention to a renewed urgency to protect and reuse the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago following the sudden passing of Helmut Jahn, the building's architect. Coalition members are: AIA Chicago, AIA Chicago Committee on the Environment, DOCOMOMO Chicago, DOCOMOMO US, Landmarks Illinois, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Chicago and Preservation Futures. In a press release issued earlier this month, the coalition also announced it had nominated the Post Modern building, included four times on Landmarks Illinois' Most Endangered list between 2017 and 2021, to the World Monuments Watch List. 

• Landmarks Illinois President & CEO Bonnie McDonald was among the many contributors in a tribute to the late Helmut Jahn published this month by Mas Context. "That lack of restraint led Helmut to design some of the world’s most memorable spaces—big and bold and unapologetic," McDonald wrote. "What could have been mundane public places became awe inspiring. His mastery of scale and proportion created sweeping vistas making us feel within and outside all at once, yet not insignificant or small. These places were designed for people to not only be inspired, but provoked. Now it is in our hands to save the work of our provocateur."