The silos, located at 2860 S. Damen Ave. on the side of the Stevenson Expressway, date back to 1906, but were abandoned after ...

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

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

Preservationists and community groups had fought for years to save the old grain elevators, and said tearing them down ...

Under the city’s Welcoming City Ordinance, which was modified in 2021, Chicago Police cannot set up a traffic perimeter or ...

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

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

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

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

A plan is in place to demolish the massive Damen grain silos in McKinley Park, but the permit for the work is still pending.