The Illinois Statewide Preservation Conference will take place June 14-16, 2007.  This three-day event is packed with educational sessions that appeal to historic preservationists from various disciplines.  Tours will feature the 1893 World's Fair site, Gothic Revival campus buildings, and seminal examples of Early Modernism by architects Pond & Pond, Barry Byrne and Frank Lloyd Wright.  For attendees interested in the preservation of Mid-Century Modern architecture, a special "Recent Past" track has been coordinated as part of the program.   

Conference headquarters will be located on the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park-Kenwood National Register District.  Lectures will take place in the new graduate school of business, which was designed by architect Rafael Vinoly and completed in 2004.