Landmarking the Black Panther Party

[Gunnar Larson]

Landmarking the Black Panther Party
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-24/how-chicago-is-landmarking-the-black-panther-party


Several of these buildings lack the grandeur or design pedigree of typical
preservationist causes. Take the “three-flat” apartment building where
Panther co-founder Brooks lived — a modest red-brick structure that looks
like thousands of others in Chicago. Yet this building still tells a story
about Black wealth creation (if you were the landlord) and Black wealth
extraction (if you were a tenant). So does its setting, a West Side
neighborhood full of empty lots. “More people have been in three-flats than
buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright,” says Elizabeth Blasius, a
preservationist that was on the state council that recommended the
Panthers’ nomination. “That’s where history happens.”
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