The mill is one of the tallest buildings in the city. It’s too bad that the cupola with its big skylights and flagpole were removed.
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Looking at The Windy City from the top of the coal tower. The pond you see is the former ACME Coke coal yard.
Looking out the finishing end of the sintering plant at a network of torched-off catwalks through a maze of rust and asbestos. Paradise.
The flour mill (rear) and its elevators. The taller elevator was moved here in 1955, when the Harrisons bought it from Federal, who declared it surplus. The smaller elevator replaced an earlier smaller warehouse in 1926. Taken shortly after dawn. This one picture made the drive worth it, for me. Medium Format.
It’s not a good sign when you can see the chimney through the roof.
If it wasn’t for the humming and crackling of the wires, I could believe I had arrived to a post apocalyptic landscape.
A vintage X-Ray machine in the oldest section of the hospital.
Gaskets still organized on nails beside the power plant. This used to be a maintenance room, but since its roof and walls were torn down, it’s not any kind of room.
The wings of the church had a lot more water damage than the rest. The organ on the balcony was in decent condition when I arrived.
Why the elevator cars were removed or who removed them is unclear to me, but I do hope they still exist somewhere outside of a Honda frame. Judging from the decorations heaped on the doors and their frames, the cars themselves must have been beautiful.