According to the Campaign to Save the Michael Reese Hospital folks in Chicago all of Bauhauser Walter Gropius' public buildings in Illinois are is danger of being erased from the cityscape should Chicago win it's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Indeed should Chicago not win its bid, the buildings could still fall to developer whims.
Located on Chicago's South Side Gropius was contracted in 1945 and the building went on through much of the 1950's. The campus is the only example of his architecture and city planning in the state of Illinois.
We join with the folks at The Gropius in Chicago Coalition in urging the city's olympic committee find a way to save these buildings through adaptive re-use.
For more information see the coalition's website...http://www.savemrh.com
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