CULTURETECHLENSDocuments
Primary documents, evidence-carded like everything else in this archive: what each document is, its provenance, how CultureTechLens holds it, and its citation. Two lanes live here, kept separate on purpose — the documents of CultureTechLens’s own public work, and the public documents of the corporation. CTL’s research datasets live at Primary Sources.
Historical documents: none held yet. CultureTechLens does not yet hold historical primary documents of the kind this section will shelve — government records, charters, landmark files. The lane opens with the returns to the filings below and grows under the CTL document taxonomy (CTL-DOC-TAX-001). Nothing on this page is described as received that has not been received.
Filed by CultureTechLens — the Adopt-A-Landmark FOIA lane
On October 25, 2026, CultureTechLens NFP filed three requests under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140) for the Department of Planning and Development’s Adopt-A-Landmark files. DPD’s statutory response window runs to about November 2, 2026. Each filing is published here in full — the request as sent is itself a document of record — and its status is updated from the FOIA log as DPD answers.
FOIA-001 — Avalon Regal Theater, 1645 E. 79th St
What it is: CultureTechLens’s Freedom of Information Act request for the Chicago Department of Planning and Development’s Adopt-A-Landmark file on this landmark — application, staff report, and commission vote.
Filed: Sunday, October 25, 2026, 4:04 PM CDT — **SENT AND DELIVERED** (verified in the Zoho Sent folder; Zoho delivery status "Delivered"; exactly one copy sent).
Status: filed and delivery-verified; no records received yet. Open steps: DPD acknowledgment received; Records received / fee notice / exemption claim; File ingested into the CTL record (application + staff report + commission vote → Avalon Regal evidence file).
FOIA-002 — Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3620-22 W. Douglas Blvd.
What it is: CultureTechLens’s Freedom of Information Act request for the Chicago Department of Planning and Development’s Adopt-A-Landmark file on this landmark — application, staff report, and commission vote.
Filed: Sunday, October 25, 2026, 5:13 PM CDT — **SENT AND DELIVERED** (verified in the Zoho Sent folder; Zoho delivery status "Delivered"; exactly one copy sent).
Status: filed and delivery-verified; no records received yet. Open steps: DPD acknowledgment received; Records received / fee notice / exemption claim; File ingested into the CTL record (application + staff report + commission vote → Stone Temple Baptist evidence file).
FOIA-003 — Monumental Baptist Church, 729 E. Oakwood Blvd.
What it is: CultureTechLens’s Freedom of Information Act request for the Chicago Department of Planning and Development’s Adopt-A-Landmark file on this landmark — application, staff report, and commission vote.
Filed: Sunday, October 25, 2026, 5:13 PM CDT — **SENT AND DELIVERED** (verified in the Zoho Sent folder; Zoho delivery status "Delivered"; exactly one copy sent).
Status: filed and delivery-verified; no records received yet. Open steps: DPD acknowledgment received; Records received / fee notice / exemption claim; File ingested into the CTL record (application + staff report + commission vote → Monumental Baptist evidence file).
Public documents of the corporation
Document facts (titles, adoption/filing dates) per the Nonprofit Documents Inventory, 2026-10-24, which records each in the compliance PDF set on file. Web posting of the PDFs themselves is a separate step; until then, each document is reachable by the route its card states.
IRS determination letter
Date: 2025-08-29
What it is: The IRS letter recognizing CultureTechLens NFP as exempt under §501(c)(3), EIN 39-3143901.
How to reach it: A public-inspection document under IRC §6104 — available on request; also of record with the IRS (TEOS) and Candid.
Bylaws of CultureTechLens NFP
Date: Adopted 2026-10-07
What it is: The corporation's bylaws, adopted by board consent.
How to reach it: Governance record on file — available on request to [email protected].
Conflict-of-interest policy
Date: Adopted 2026-10-05
What it is: The board's conflict-of-interest policy, as adopted.
How to reach it: Governance record on file — available on request.
Document retention policy
Date: Adopted 2026-10-05
What it is: The board's document-retention policy, as adopted.
How to reach it: Governance record on file — available on request.
Gift acceptance policy
Date: Adopted 2026-10-05
What it is: The board's gift-acceptance policy, as adopted.
How to reach it: Governance record on file — available on request.
Whistleblower policy
Date: Adopted 2026-10-05
What it is: The board's whistleblower policy, as adopted.
How to reach it: Governance record on file — available on request.
Illinois annual report (2026)
Date: Filed 2026-09-16
What it is: The corporation's filed Illinois annual report.
How to reach it: A public record with the Illinois Secretary of State; CTL's filed copy is on file and available on request.
Source: CultureTechLens