Save the Woodruff Arcade Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-the-woodruff-arcade.html Online petition signatures en-us Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:30 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Keane Taylor [Signature #801] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24434145?utm_medium=rss I would love to have an update on this beautiful building that has been a part of my life for decades.

]]> Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:27:38 UTC 24434145 Anonymous [Signature #800] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23957847?utm_medium=rss I want the Woodruff Arcade saved not destroyed. Alderman Osterman, I ask that
you do all that you can do to save it for future generations.

]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:04:32 UTC 23957847 Devin Sears [Signature #799] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23077221?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 May 2019 06:19:18 UTC 23077221 Lorraine Klabunde [Signature #798] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22416187?utm_medium=rss Why do we continue to destroy Chicago history?Keep this property and build above.

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:52:55 UTC 22416187 Anonymous [Signature #797] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22189870?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 May 2018 02:17:16 UTC 22189870 cale Patton [Signature #796] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22123053?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Apr 2018 08:49:28 UTC 22123053 Jennifer Dini [Signature #795] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22092037?utm_medium=rss Sun, 18 Mar 2018 09:31:06 UTC 22092037 Anonymous [Signature #794] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22079623?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Mar 2018 08:41:16 UTC 22079623 Tracey Moore [Signature #793] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22074831?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Mar 2018 01:33:01 UTC 22074831 Laura Hurwitz [Signature #792] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22068024?utm_medium=rss Please save this historic building. This is what makes our community special.

]]> Sat, 3 Mar 2018 02:19:51 UTC 22068024 Anonymous [Signature #791] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22067614?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Mar 2018 04:14:16 UTC 22067614 Anonymous [Signature #790] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22067229?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Mar 2018 09:35:45 UTC 22067229 Tim Lacy [Signature #789] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22067070?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Mar 2018 07:31:59 UTC 22067070 Anonymous [Signature #788] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22065801?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Mar 2018 08:45:26 UTC 22065801 Jen Kafizov [Signature #787] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22064830?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Mar 2018 02:14:09 UTC 22064830 Gloria Callaci [Signature #786] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22048666?utm_medium=rss Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:49:15 UTC 22048666 David Gudewicz [Signature #785] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22041261?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:36:42 UTC 22041261 Anonymous [Signature #784] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22038350?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Feb 2018 04:11:23 UTC 22038350 Jeffery Moore [Signature #783] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22035356?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Feb 2018 07:37:40 UTC 22035356 Barbara McDonough [Signature #782] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22035086?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Feb 2018 04:44:51 UTC 22035086 Gerard Charles [Signature #781] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22032875?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Feb 2018 02:27:21 UTC 22032875 Barbara Cooper [Signature #780] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22030199?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Feb 2018 04:03:12 UTC 22030199 John Warner [Signature #779] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22030176?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Feb 2018 03:47:03 UTC 22030176 Anonymous [Signature #778] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22029905?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Feb 2018 12:00:24 UTC 22029905 Anonymous [Signature #777] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22029894?utm_medium=rss Please save the historic Woodruff Arcade from demolition.

]]> Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:51:55 UTC 22029894 Anonymous [Signature #776] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22004506?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:50:46 UTC 22004506 K M O'Reilly [Signature #775] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21979789?utm_medium=rss Don't destroy this piece of home.

]]> Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:54:05 UTC 21979789 Jennifer Greenburg [Signature #774] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21979779?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:48:36 UTC 21979779 James Pike [Signature #773] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21979741?utm_medium=rss Woodruff Arcade is a unique piece of architecture that is certainly worth saving, adapting, and celebrating.

]]> Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:30:13 UTC 21979741 Jack Weiss [Signature #772] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21979721?utm_medium=rss As a preservation commissioner in Evanston and someone who brought Open House Chicago to Evanston, this building must be preserved. It would be a highlight of a future Open House Chicago!

]]> Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:22:33 UTC 21979721 Steven Zick [Signature #771] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21979677?utm_medium=rss Please oppose demolition of this wonderful building! Retail is being threatened on all sides, and these tenants are working hard to survive in historic surroundings that deserve protection. thank you, Steve Zick

]]> Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:03:42 UTC 21979677 Andreas morgen [Signature #770] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21978310?utm_medium=rss This building needs to be saved as it the last of its kind in Chicago. Please don't allow demolition.

]]> Tue, 9 Jan 2018 08:53:19 UTC 21978310 Laurie Sherry [Signature #769] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21973003?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Jan 2018 06:10:22 UTC 21973003 Kari Dahl [Signature #768] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21971698?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Jan 2018 09:08:23 UTC 21971698 Henry Zimoch [Signature #767] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21971651?utm_medium=rss Let's not lose this wonderful remnant of Chicago neighborhood architecture.

]]> Fri, 5 Jan 2018 08:58:13 UTC 21971651 George Glastris [Signature #766] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21971012?utm_medium=rss I love this building and it's such an anchor to the neighborhood.

]]> Fri, 5 Jan 2018 06:29:57 UTC 21971012 Donna Green [Signature #765] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21970924?utm_medium=rss Our pediatrician had his offices in this building. As a child I loved the building.

]]> Fri, 5 Jan 2018 06:14:48 UTC 21970924 Douglas Rappe [Signature #764] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21963323?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Dec 2017 06:14:15 UTC 21963323 Anonymous [Signature #763] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21959127?utm_medium=rss This lovely, historic and now unique-in-Chicago building is the kind of place that makes Chicago unlike any other city in the country. We don't want to be like Dallas! Or Atlanta... or Phoenix, etc. We LIKE our older buildings, are special relationship to the streets of the city. Please save the Woodruff!

]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:49:09 UTC 21959127 Amanda Ault-Henning [Signature #762] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21936006?utm_medium=rss Please take steps to preserve this building! We Americans love to go to Paris and London and visit their beautiful arcades, filled with boutique stores. We have this lovely little place right here in our City. And, once it is torn down (for a "dime a dozen" condo building), it can't easily be replaced. Please honor our City's heritage and preserve something that can be of great value to the community. Thank you.

]]> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 03:06:54 UTC 21936006 Maria de la Rosa-Young [Signature #761] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21929751?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Dec 2017 04:13:41 UTC 21929751 Trudy Gardner [Signature #760] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21927513?utm_medium=rss It's bad enough that we have to displace Seniors' parking, community space and garden for another nondescript building, now Loyola wants to tear down one of the very few beautiful buildings left in our area. they plan to replace it with yet another bad building

]]> Wed, 6 Dec 2017 05:34:57 UTC 21927513 Nancy Klein [Signature #759] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21926335?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Dec 2017 05:44:30 UTC 21926335 Leona Lee [Signature #758] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21924748?utm_medium=rss Please save this building!

]]> Tue, 5 Dec 2017 05:11:17 UTC 21924748 Daniel Bassano [Signature #757] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21923709?utm_medium=rss I live 2 blocks away from this building, and I believe this building has historical significance, and there is no reason for tearing this building down. It was practically full of tenant prior to the possible redevelopment.

]]> Tue, 5 Dec 2017 01:08:48 UTC 21923709 Wallace Rappe [Signature #756] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21923461?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:25:17 UTC 21923461 Robert Kosticak [Signature #755] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21921683?utm_medium=rss Replacing a historic building with another very ugly box is a crime! How long is the destruction of beautiful buildings in OUR neighborhood going to continue?

]]> Sun, 3 Dec 2017 10:28:29 UTC 21921683 Justine Warford [Signature #754] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21920422?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Dec 2017 03:05:31 UTC 21920422 Tracy Schrayer [Signature #753] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21917230?utm_medium=rss Chicago 48

]]> Fri, 1 Dec 2017 11:49:03 UTC 21917230 Charlotte Adams [Signature #752] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21915570?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:53:51 UTC 21915570 Amy Shuffelton [Signature #751] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21915265?utm_medium=rss Sad to lose my dentist, but sadder to lose the opportunity to see something wonderful done with this neat old building

]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:24:49 UTC 21915265 Anonymous [Signature #750] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914995?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:35:18 UTC 21914995 Ruth, Goring [Signature #749] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914434?utm_medium=rss There are wonderful, profitable creative uses for this building that involve preserving rather than demolishing.

]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2017 05:20:25 UTC 21914434 Antonie Hoffmann [Signature #748] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914160?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:15:02 UTC 21914160 Anonymous [Signature #747] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914158?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:14:03 UTC 21914158 Anonymous [Signature #746] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914015?utm_medium=rss I want the Woodruff Arcade saved not destroyed. Alderman Osterman, I ask that
you do all that you can do to save it for future generations.

]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:01:32 UTC 21914015 Melissa Manak [Signature #745] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914014?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:01:32 UTC 21914014 Richard Meehan [Signature #744] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21914009?utm_medium=rss I want the Woodruff Arcade saved not destroyed. Alderman Osterman, I ask that
you do all that you can do to save it for future generations.

]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:59:53 UTC 21914009 Stefanie Shanebrook [Signature #743] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21913748?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:53:46 UTC 21913748 Anonymous [Signature #742] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21913744?utm_medium=rss Please stop letting developers pillage our beautiful historic buildings.

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:50:32 UTC 21913744 Kandie Alter [Signature #741] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21913665?utm_medium=rss This is tragic! Stop letting developers destroy our streetsapes and historic buildings that make our neighborhood beautiful and unique!

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:05:26 UTC 21913665 Amberly Stimson [Signature #740] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21913607?utm_medium=rss Resident of the 49th ward, just across the street.

Losing this building would be a huge loss to the history of Chicago architecture, and would be an even larger loss to the neighborhood as it loses 14 small businesses, many that have been staples here for years.

The proposed building would've been a better fit idea for the lot just across the way where the awful small target is going to go. A few small businesses there, and housing above (since the seniors won't get the community center they wanted).

This is just further destruction for profit with complete disregard for valuable history.

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:19:41 UTC 21913607 Olga Jewusiak [Signature #739] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21913556?utm_medium=rss Redeveloping the existing structure would garner more positive accolades and press than tearing down to build another generic, cookie-cutter building. Developers that embraced existing historic structures (like the mall in Providence, RI or buildings similar to this one in Baltimore, MD) experienced incredible public goodwill that resulted in 0 vacancies (business and residential) before the buildings were even open to the public. People are nostalgic, particularly in these trying times, and they'll pay market-rate and above to live inside "living history" that has central air now :)

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:41:57 UTC 21913556 Megan Ammer [Signature #738] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21913553?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:39:47 UTC 21913553 matt tuteur [Signature #737] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21913540?utm_medium=rss This should not be demolished! Chicago needs to stop throwing away its architectural past!

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:33:43 UTC 21913540 Suzanne Meyering [Signature #736] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21908116?utm_medium=rss Resident of 49th ward

]]> Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:39:46 UTC 21908116 Beth Basta [Signature #735] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21908107?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:24:00 UTC 21908107 Robert Basta [Signature #734] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21907629?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Nov 2017 03:51:54 UTC 21907629 Cindy Thomsen [Signature #733] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21907628?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Nov 2017 03:51:20 UTC 21907628 Jocelyn Gerard [Signature #732] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21907439?utm_medium=rss I am very familiar with this building as in my younger years, I visited the Planned Parenthood in the building for health care. This is a great piece of history and I believe the building should be saved. So much of the area on Sheridan Road has been torn down and paved over. It seems a shame to lose one of the few buildings left in this area.

]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:36:46 UTC 21907439 Soo Jong [Signature #731] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21906698?utm_medium=rss Sat, 25 Nov 2017 01:35:53 UTC 21906698 Abraham Kelly [Signature #730] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21906677?utm_medium=rss The existing building should stay....but needs tuckpointing!

]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2017 01:09:55 UTC 21906677 Mark Sachse [Signature #729] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21905171?utm_medium=rss This building has significant historic architectural value and needs to be preserved.

]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:52:07 UTC 21905171 Anonymous [Signature #728] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21905075?utm_medium=rss Fri, 24 Nov 2017 04:17:42 UTC 21905075 Vanessa Jhangiani [Signature #727] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21904928?utm_medium=rss Please preserve this unique building. Too many historic buildings that make up Chicago’s cityscape are being replaced with generic apartment towers.

]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2017 01:23:00 UTC 21904928 Michael Snyder [Signature #726] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21903214?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:13:20 UTC 21903214 Toby Mason [Signature #725] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902682?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:37:17 UTC 21902682 Sebastian Wuepper [Signature #724] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902461?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:29:44 UTC 21902461 Anonymous [Signature #723] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902373?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:02:37 UTC 21902373 Anonymous [Signature #722] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902302?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:43:07 UTC 21902302 Anonymous [Signature #721] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902288?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:41:05 UTC 21902288 Anonymous [Signature #720] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902274?utm_medium=rss The replacement is hideous. Save the last remaining building of its kind from destruction.

]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:37:39 UTC 21902274 Anonymous [Signature #719] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902253?utm_medium=rss Save Woodruff Arcade from demolition (Edgewater)

]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:32:21 UTC 21902253 Tori Golden [Signature #718] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21902231?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:25:42 UTC 21902231 Doug Meharry [Signature #717] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21901276?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:29:37 UTC 21901276 Anonymous [Signature #716] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900963?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:19:02 UTC 21900963 Anonymous [Signature #715] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900918?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:49:10 UTC 21900918 Dan Dowling [Signature #714] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900847?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:04:08 UTC 21900847 Anonymous [Signature #713] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900831?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:56:17 UTC 21900831 Shine Roberts [Signature #712] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900770?utm_medium=rss Clark and Elmdale. I think arcades have played a significant role in United States history and Chicago as well. It would be a shame to lose this building for yet another condo. It'd be great if we could turn into it a small business incubator or at minimal restructure it into small studios like the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the arcade so the structure is preserved.

]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:16:51 UTC 21900770 beth yaney [Signature #711] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900586?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:04:47 UTC 21900586 Anonymous [Signature #710] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900577?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:57:27 UTC 21900577 Thomas vaughan [Signature #709] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900437?utm_medium=rss This is too important of an architectural treasure to be replaced by a "modern" glass block mid-rise. Please save it .

]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:46:09 UTC 21900437 Dave Rasmussen [Signature #708] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900121?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:26:19 UTC 21900121 Anonymous [Signature #707] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21900097?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:13:54 UTC 21900097 Angelika Corlew [Signature #706] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21899900?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:58:28 UTC 21899900 Anonymous [Signature #705] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21899858?utm_medium=rss 48th ward

]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:41:43 UTC 21899858 Jodi Lacy [Signature #704] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21899804?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:22:52 UTC 21899804 Kiki Kakavas [Signature #703] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21899791?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:17:26 UTC 21899791 Gary Ford [Signature #702] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21899782?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:14:38 UTC 21899782