Vanishing Marktown – Historic Planned Worker Community in East Chicago
Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States, built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company. The [...]
South Works – Abandoned Steel Mills of South Chicago
South Works is an area in the South Chicago part of Chicago, Illinois, near the mouth of the Calumet River, that was previously home to a now-closed and vacant US Steel manufacturing plant. The area [...]
The Wasteland
The Wasteland - South Chicago. Industrial lands once used for manufacturing and power distribution.
Last of the original Central Manufacturing District
Over the many decades, there were many different businesses that went out of business withing the Central Manufacturing District. A 265-acre (1.07 km2) area of the city in which private decisionmakers planned the structure of [...]
West Loop Raising- Construction Boom Continues
The Near West Side Community Area 28, 2 miles W of the Loop. is bounded by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad to the north, the Pennsylvania Railroad to the west, the South Branch of the [...]
The Reliance Electric Co
The RELIANCE ELECTRIC CO., a leading manufacturer of electrical products for industry, was founded in 1905 by Cleveland industrialist Peter M. Hitchcock and his cousin, inventor John C. Lincoln. Originally founded as the Lincoln Electric [...]
Abandoned St. Stephen’s Church
Built in 1917 as the 10th Church of Christ, Scientist, St. Stephen’s takes its current name from the smaller black congregation that took over the space after the Christian Science church closed in the late [...]
Last Days of Old Cuneo Hospital
When opened in 1957, Frank Cuneo Memorial Hospital was the most modern of hospitals, including a stunning lobby and operating rooms with patterned walls and floors of individually designed Romany-Spartan glazed tile walls. Architect Edo [...]
Urban Cumulonimbus Clouds
Cumulonimbus, from the Latin cumulus ("heap") and nimbus ("rainstorm", "storm cloud"), is a dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms and atmospheric instability, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed [...]
Republic Steel – Memory of an American Workforce
Republic Steel was one of the last major steel firms to use low-phosphorus Adirondack magnetites, operating the Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company in Lyon Mountain, New York from 1939 to 1967. The Chateaugay mine was [...]