Landmarks Illinois has hired Quinn Adamowski, who serves on several Joliet boards including the city’s historic preservation commission, as its regional advocacy manager.

Adamowski “will serve as the organization’s frontline preservation advocate in communities in the greater Illinois area outside Chicago and its suburbs,” Landmark Illinois said an announcement issued last week.

Adamowski will be based in Joliet and travel throughout Illinois “to meet with community advocates and nonprofit partners as well as city officials and legislators to provide preservation resources and expertise as needed,” Landmarks Illinois said.

Landmarks Illinois, a nonprofit marking its 50th anniversary, is devoted to preserving and reusing older historic buildings in the state.

“Quinn is an exciting addition to the Landmarks Illinois team,” Landmarks Illinois President and CEO Bonnie McDonald said in the news release. “A local advocate, civic leader and educator, he has firsthand experience engaging an entire community around solving what seemed to be an insurmountable preservation challenge.”

Adamowski’s experience in Joliet includes leadership in a coalition created to restore the Old Joliet Prison, which Landmarks Illinois included in its 2002 list of Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois. He is the chair of the Joliet Historic Preservation Commission. He also is a member of the Joliet Area Historical Museum Board, Joliet Arts Commission, and Joliet Board of Fire and Police Commissioners.

“I look forward to working with all communities in greater Illinois on their unique historic preservation needs, especially during a time when preservation is increasingly understood as a tool to protect and promote cultural heritage, the arts, tourism and economic development,” Adamowski said in the news release. “Every community in Illinois can benefit from historic preservation, and it’s a privilege to have the opportunity to help people save places special to them and their neighbors.”