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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860606
Author:Celeste Busk

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions or human types is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother the least about. - Novelist John Galsworthy

Historic preservation wasn't in vogue when these words were written 53 years ago. Then, a Depression-battered America was more concerned with human survival and jobs than saving old neighborhoods.

More recently, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, riots, redlining and racial change hung like a dark cloud over the future of Chicago's aging housing stock.

Although many dedicated ...

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