CHICAGO-The National Trust for Historic Preservation has withdrawn its lawsuit seeking to secure landmark protection for the former Prentice Women's Hospital in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago.
The suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court accused the city of violating its landmark ordinance to protect the building designed by noted Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Recently, a Chicago landmarks commission rejected a proposal to grant the hospital landmark status.
“We continue to believe there were significant flaws with the process that granted and then removed landmark protection for Prentice,” the trust-led Save Prentice Coalition, said in a statement. “However, we feel that the landmarks process has run its course.”
Northwestern University, the owner of the building, intends to demolish the building to make way for medical research laboratory space. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has supported the project. See story in the Chicago-Sun-Times.
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