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

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 ...

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 ...

The Damen Silos — now at the center of demolition drama — have a colorful history Grain elevators were Chicago’s first skyscrapers, and they helped the city become an economic powerhouse ...

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 Damen Silos' new owner is planning to tear them down, but a coalition of preservationists and community groups say that would amount to destroying part of Chicago's history.

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

The Chicago Department of Buildings issued a permit Thursday for the demolition of the iconic Damen Silos, a relic of the Lower West Side’s once-prominent grain processing industry. A demolition ...