Washington Park Substation by architect Hermann von Holst
Washington Park Substation The South Side’s Washington Park Substation was constructed in stages [...]
Saint Boniface Catholic Church
Over the years, Saint Boniface Catholic Church has been a place for hang-outs, photo [...]
Canyons of Downtown Chicago
The city can often get pretty foggy. Especially the lakefront. Sometimes, the fog reaches [...]
Chicago Central Manufacturing District
The Central Manufacturing District (CMD), considered for Amazon's HQ2 Headquarters, was a 265-acre industrial [...]
Alta at K Station
Alta at K Station is part of a visionary development, comprising five-towers of luxury [...]
Abandoned Chicago Heights Executive Tower
This Abandoned Chicago Heights Executive Tower is a 74,000 square foot, 7 story masonry/concrete/steel [...]
Chicago Lakefront Citizen Photographers
It's that time of the year again when heading out for a walk along [...]
65 Photos From Inside The Old Chicago Main Post Office – Before The Renovations
Originally built to help serve Chicago’s mail order behemoths such as Sears and Montgomery [...]
Lincoln Logs Chicago
A vacant timber loft building that was used to make Lincoln Logs from the [...]
Gold Coast Chicago Aerial View
Gold Coast refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city's [...]
Death of the Shopping Mall
It is apparent that shopping malls have been dying over the last decade. The [...]
Vanishing Marktown – Historic Planned Worker Community in East Chicago
Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States, built [...]
South Works – Abandoned Steel Mills of South Chicago
South Works is an area in the South Chicago part of Chicago, Illinois, near [...]
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 [...]
West Loop Raising- Construction Boom Continues
The Near West Side Community Area 28, 2 miles W of the Loop. is [...]
The Reliance Electric Co
The RELIANCE ELECTRIC CO., a leading manufacturer of electrical products for industry, was founded [...]
Abandoned St. Stephen’s Church
Built in 1917 as the 10th Church of Christ, Scientist, St. Stephen’s takes its [...]
Last Days of Old Cuneo Hospital
When opened in 1957, Frank Cuneo Memorial Hospital was the most modern of hospitals, [...]
Urban Cumulonimbus Clouds
Cumulonimbus, from the Latin cumulus ("heap") and nimbus ("rainstorm", "storm cloud"), is a dense [...]
Republic Steel – Memory of an American Workforce
Republic Steel was one of the last major steel firms to use low-phosphorus Adirondack [...]
Brach’s Palace of Sweets – Last Days
Founded in 1904 by Emil J. Brach, he invested his life savings, $1,000, in [...]
Industrial Activity – Colors of an Era Gone By
Residential proximity to industrial activity has a negative impact on mental health and that [...]
Eastman Kodak – Demolition in Chicago’s South Loop
On Monday March 9, 2015, demolition began on the former Eastman Kodak Company plant [...]