Demolition for the historic Damen Silos on Chicago's Southwest Side was supposed to begin Monday, despite a yearslong battle by preservationists and community groups to save them. The silos, located ...

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 ...

Demolition of the historic Damen Silos on Chicago's Southwest Side will begin Monday — despite an effort from preservationists and community groups to save them. The industrial structures stand tall ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

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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