Is This the End of a great Chicago Industrial Monument?

click images for larger view Alby Gallun of Crain's Chicago Business was reporting yesterday that the State of Illinois is going to giv...

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Architecture as Tinder: Michael Bay's Transformers4 blows up Chicago's massive, abandoned Santa Fe Grain Elevators

You have to give Michael Bay credit.  He's built a multi-billion dollar franchise, largely on just blowing things up.  And his location ...

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Dumped at the Side of the Highway: Father Marquette's Strange Monument

click images for larger view The light was good yesterday so I went back to the abandoned Santa Fe Grain Elevator I wrote about a few days ...

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The Power of Uselessness: The History - and Potential - of Chicago's massive Santa Fe Grain Elevator

Sometimes something can be so spectacularly useless that it endures.  And in enduring, it begs to be re-invented. Such is the case with the ...

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