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Streator High School, a dilapidated train station in Mattoon, a Chicago church that hosted labor union meetings and Alton's City Hall are among the places named Wednesday as the state's most endangered historic sites.
The Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois released a list of 10 buildings linked to famous people or historic events that are threatened by deterioration, lack of maintenance, or insensitive public policies.
The organization hopes publicizing the threatened buildings will help save them from destruction.
Streator school officials want to demolish all of the 1923 high school except for the facade and the auditorium as part of a $23 million reconstruction project.
"We hope the publicity these threatened buildings receive will result in a positive outcome for their future," said Preservation Council President David Bahlman.
Bahlman pointed...