A plan is in place to demolish the massive Damen grain silos in McKinley Park, but the permit for the work is still pending. City officials and contractors presented the proposed demolition plan ...

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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 date ...

Preservationists and other community groups are fighting to save the historic Damen Silos from demolition, and possibly turn the site into a park or concert venue, but the site's new owner is moving ...

The towering concrete silos that stood for decades at Palm Avenue and H Street are gone from the city’s skyline. Well, mostly. A Fresno demolition company has spent the past 10 months clearing the ...

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. Shamus has details on: City Stops Damen Silos Demolition Due To ...

CHICAGO—Southwest Side residents implored city health and planning officials last week to reconsider the future of two century-old towering grain elevators, empty for years, that an asphalt company ...

The immediate fate of the long-abandoned Damen grain silos will remain up in the air as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reviews plans to demolish the century-old concrete structures in Chicago’s ...

Demolition can start after site work is completed at the Damen Silos, a collection of grain elevators dating from 1906 that preservationists and others regard as a local Chicago landmark and which ...

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