A panorama next to a long abandoned adit. The tram has seen better days.
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I never knew that all those elementary school balance bar exercises were for a very serious purpose: not falling to one’s death in the event they uncover lost Chicago history.
Looking across at the Cargill elevator.
The iconic outline of a prairie sentinel. Quintessential rural industrial architecture.
An experimental shaft dug in the 1950s and its Hoist House.
…a little close for comfort.
A quick vertical panorama taken on my back at the sweet spot of a great summer sunset. On the skylight is the torch-cut catwalk that used to link the outside of the smokestacks that vented the cupolas.
The top floor’s old-fashioned hospital ways were too much to pass without a photo or two… with the paint falling off the walls it was as if the building was shedding its skin in an effort to become rejuvenated or useful.
Will coming down “Darwin’s Ladder”.
Looking from one workhouse at another, with the other residents of Mill Hell falling into place as the distance grows. Across the rail yard you can see Froedert Malt elevator and Calumet.