Demolition for the historic Damen Silos on Chicago's Southwest Side was supposed to begin Monday, despite a yearslong battle ...

Crews are demolishing the historic Damen Silos in McKinley Park, starting with the south building, using high-reach ...

The city said the silos on Chicago's Southwest Side would be taken down little by little, with no use of explosives. Sabrina ...

Abandoned since an explosion in 1977, the new owner of the silos has been planning to tear them down — and will begin doing ...

Chicago's Department of Buildings approved the permit days after outlining a plan for the demolition at a community meeting ...

Frustration with the silos’ owner boiled over during a public meeting. It’s not clear yet how the riverfront site would be ...

Chicago has granted demolition permits for a collection of grain elevators that preservationists have sought to preserve.

If the Damen Avenue Silos are demolished, they will take with them some of the final remains of Carl Sandburg’s poetic salute to Chicago: “Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of ...

The graffiti-covered concrete towers soaring over the Stevenson Expressway aren’t just local landmarks to Kate Eakin. She sees the defunct grain storage structures known as the Damen Silos as… ...

The Damen Silos face the Canalport Riverwalk in Bridgeport. Credit: S. Nicole Lane Walking toward the Canalport Riverwalk, a crane lifts shredded metals as traffic speeds toward a bridge. A ...

The Chicago Department of Buildings said the demolition of the structures would be “environmentally complex” — with concerns ...