State grant to restore Market Hall

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 3, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Labor Day is seldom the time for gift-giving, but this deviation is OK: Pullman's burned-out Market Hall building, built a century ago on the site where Clarence Darrow championed the eight-hour workday, has received a $1.1 million rehab grant.

The grant, from the state's $12 billion Illinois FIRST public works fund, is expected to turn the brick shell at 112th and Champlain into a usable building for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Work is scheduled to begin in October and to conclude possibly by mid-2001. That could mean a quick victory for preservation efforts in the historic former ...

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