Demolition for the historic Damen Silos on Chicago's Southwest Side was supposed to begin Monday, despite a yearslong battle ...

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

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

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 ...

The Damen Silos — now at the center of demolition drama — have a colorful history Grain elevators were Chicago’s first skyscrapers, and they helped the city become an economic powerhouse.

The Damen Silos' new owner is planning to tear them down, but a coalition of preservationists and community groups say that would amount to destroying part of Chicago's history.

Tadin, who owns the controversial MAT Asphalt plant in McKinley Park, has not said what he wants to do with the Damen Silos property.He has said he won’t put an asphalt plant there. Some ...

The Damen Silos complex on Chicago’s Lower West Side on Aug. 22, 2023. When the Santa Fe Railroad built the Damen Silos in 1906, Chicago ruled the wheat market.

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