BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter August 20, 2013 3:00PM

Demolition crews dismantling the fieldhouse behind Whittier Elementary in Chicago on Saturday, August 17, 2013. | Chandler West/For Sun-Times Media

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Updated: August 21, 2013 2:21AM

Mayor Rahm Emanuel fended off allegations that the weekend demolition of a Pilsen school fieldhouse was a sneak attack akin to former Mayor Richard M. Daleys infamous midnight destruction of Meigs Field.

Emanuel said he appreciates the emotional attachment that people have to the Whittier Elementary School fieldhouse, which they were using as a volunteer community center.

But he said the run-down fieldhouse was unsafe for children and should have been torn down three years ago, when a parental protest prompted the Chicago Public Schools to call off the demolition trucks.

Three years ago there was a discussion of just tearing it down. Were not doing that. Were taking it down and building something new to replace it, he said.

Building up a new AstroTurf field, a new basketball court and a new playground that is safe for kids is exactly the right thing to do for the families . . . in and around Whittier. . . . That was not the case three years ago. There was no commitment to the neighborhood to make the type of investment which we are making now.

Emanuel likened the Whittier protests, which triggered 10 weekend arrests, to last years overnight campus sit-in at Brian Piccolo Elementary Specialty School in West Humboldt Park.

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BY NATALIE HAYES For Sun-Times Media August 21, 2013 8:14PM

The Purple Hotel, at Touhy and Lincoln Avenue in Lincolnwood, in 2006. | Sun-Times Media files

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Updated: August 21, 2013 11:07PM

The Purple Hotel is set to finally begin demolition next week, ending the notorious hotels tenure at the intersection of Touhy and Lincoln avenues in Lincolnwood.

During Tuesdays Lincolnwood Village Board meeting, Skokie-based North Capital Group LLC, which acquired the property for $8.3 million out of bankruptcy last year, announced that demolition will begin the week of Aug. 26.

Neil Stein, principal of North Capital Group, said he was waiting for the village to issue a demolition permit and would start bringing wrecking equipment to the site Monday pending the issuance of that permit.

Stein has said that the ultimate goal for the site is to transform it into an avid destination, providing a general idea of the redevelopment plan, which includes a mixed-use space with retail, office, residential and hotel areas.

The destruction of the Purple Hotel marks the end of an era in Lincolnwood, stretching more than 50 years for North Shore residents who remember attending parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs and conventions at the hotel back when it was the go-to hot spot for social gatherings.

Its parking lot was the ambush site of mobster Allen Dorfman in 1983.

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