The silos, located at 2860 S. Damen Ave. on the side of the Stevenson Expressway, date back to 1906, but were abandoned after ...

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

Preservationists and community groups had fought for years to save the old grain elevators, and said tearing them down ...

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

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

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 ...

Community meeting planned for Damen Silos demolition A June 27 public meeting is set to discuss the demolition plans for the more than century-old grain silos on the city’s Lower West Side.

A plan is in place to demolish the massive Damen grain silos in McKinley Park, but the permit for the work is still pending.