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 ...

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

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

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 towering, old grain silos near 29 th Street and Damen Avenue, on the banks of the Chicago River’s south branch, date to Chicago’s heyday as a hub of manufacturing and food distribution ...

The Damen Silos complex on Chicago’s Lower West Side on Aug. 22, 2023. When the Santa Fe Railroad built the Damen Silos in 1906, Chicago ruled the wheat market.

The Damen Silos on Chicago’s Lower West Side on Aug. 22, 2023. Representatives from Landmarks Illinois and Preservation Chicago both attended the meeting to call on the city to preserve the site.

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