Chicago looks in as we look out, for holes and trolls where anything goes.
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The east side of the boiler shop sported a platform with a control booth and heavy machine mounts. Note the door that replaces the lower section of stairs for explorers.
This is part of the oldest section of factory, one that hasn’t had a roof in a long time and all usable equipment has been extracted. The machines pictured would spin sliced beets in boiling water… it was a sealed system before someone cut holes on sides of each unit.
This “pit” would allow workers to crawl below locomotives to service them.
As if they were planning to move the furniture out of the hospital, it all sits in the main hallway in the ground floor.
Looking into the tunnel system from below the Women’s Ward. The tunnels were used mostly by staff to move food and laundry.
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Sherman’s history is better than mine. You should read it on Abandoned Online.
To get more light into the wards, the building was narrow and had angular rooms, often staff space, perpendicular to the main hallway.
Furnace #6; its catwalk and tapway. Note the lever-operated gutter-blockers.