Chicago Tribune: Condo plan would raze McCormick birthplace

Nancy Levy sends this link (it is also in the dead tree edition of the Trib sitting on my kitchen table) about a battle between developers and preservationists. I have no strong feelings about this one way or the other, but I love the line from one of the preservationists: "McCormick, who died in 1955, 'was an eccentric, but he was our eccentric,' Moran said."

Preservationists seemed resigned Thursday to the demolition of the Streeterville birthplace of longtime Chicago Tribune editor and publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick to make way for a condo and retail tower.