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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Explore preservation group’s plan to save two doomed Loop towers

The Consumers Building, 220 S State St., (left), and the Century Building (right), 202 S. State St., could be saved from demolition under a plan to use the buildings as archives. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

We’re intrigued by a preservation group’s plan to save a seemingly doomed pair of Loop office buildings by turning the towers into a local archives center.

As first reported by the Sun-Times’ David Roeder this week, Preservation Chicago has lined up 20 religious orders, including Dominican University in River Forest, that are interested in converting the Century and Consumers buildings, 202 and 220 S. State St., into the proposed Chicago Collaborative Archive Center.

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