UIC stalls plan to demolish 6 Maxwell Street buildings

A controversial plan to demolish six buildings in the old MaxwellStreet market area has been put on hold, a spokesman for theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago said Tuesday.

Preservationists oppose the plan, part of a southward expansionby UIC.

The six buildings, described by the university as boarded up anddilapidated, are among about 50 in the redevelopment area."I don't want to imply we are never going to tear down thebuildings," said UIC spokesman Danny Chun. "(Preservationists) wantto save every building. That's not practical."The university hasn't decided how many of the structures …