The Commission on Chicago Landmarks voted to recommend it get the protection, setting up a final decision next week by the City Council.
Pilsen’s St. Adalbert’s Church building cleared a key hurdle Thursday in the years-long fight by former parishioners to have it declared a landmark to spare it from demolition or a complete overhaul.
“The alderman and the Archdiocese have a serious problem on their hands, and they have got to deal with it,” he said. “We as the commission, though, are doing our duty in terms of the structures within the City of Chicago to figure out what is worth preserving and what is not. We are holding by that.”
The church was called “one of the finest in Chicago” by the Tribune when it was completed in 1914 and, at its peak, served 4,000 families. But its membership declined as Pilsen shifted from a more heavily Polish community to predominantly Mexican. Speakers opposed to the designation, many parishioners of St. Paul’s, warned the landmarking designation will make their church unable to sell the St. Adalbert’s site it now owns and leave it crippled with debt. They criticized as too harsh protests by St. Adalbert’s supporters, including a man running into St. Paul’s to demonstrate during a mass last week.
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