CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood will not become a landmark district after the City Council Zoning Committee unanimously voted down the measure Tuesday. Two years ago, city officials ...

CHICAGO — Nearly 45 years ago, Marcos Carbajal’s father opened a restaurant that would become a staple of the Pilsen neighborhood in the first building the Carbajal family was able to buy after ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A City Council committee on Tuesday shot down a controversial plan to create one of the city's largest landmark districts in the Pilsen neighborhood, after the local alderman and many ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On the corner of 18th place and Throop Street in the Pilsen community, you'll find Socorro Gutierrez's home and business, both of which she had proudly owned since the 1980's. Her ...

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Historic landmark districts are usually created to preserve existing buildings and limit development. Not so in Pilsen, says Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th Ward), who is opposing a proposed ...

The city is in a hurry to turn a large section of Pilsen into a landmark district to save its historic buildings and murals from demolition but many residents are cautious thus far. The Chicago ...

The Pilsen and Heart of Chicago neighborhoods will be home to one of the most bountiful state historic districts, a bid by neighborhood leaders to help longtime residents stay. The owners of about ...

Over the last 14 years, 90 buildings have been demolished in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. Two years ago, city officials proposed an historic landmark district to protect hundreds of “Bohemian ...

There’s no doubt Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood has the stuff to become an official city landmark district. Yet a plan to do just that is widely despised in the community, viewed by the local alderman, ...

The city took a significant step towards establishing a landmark district in Pilsen despite a lukewarm reception from the alderman-elect and the objections of a small-but-vocal group of residents. On ...