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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
well, then it sure does seem unfortunate to throw all that hard work down the toilet by knocking down increasing numbers of rated buildings on the list with impunity
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It's not down the toilet. On the basis of that and the previous Illinois Historic Building survey, we preserved thousands of orange and red buildings as well at thousands of lesser rated workers cottages when we tied them all into landmark districts. I can stick my head out of the front door and see seven orange rated buildings that enjoy that protection.
A new survey may identify a few ones that fell through the cracks, but we are not producing any more pre 1940 buildings and no building is going to become more intact over time.
A new survey would only serve to tabulate out how many we have lost and how many will have lost their rating thanks to entropy.
That might seem like a good number to know, but I doubt that anyone downtown will want to pay you for it.