The Chicago Tribune Freedom Center gets closer to oblivion with each passing day, just as Bally’s Chicago Casino gets closer to beginning construction. The dramatic demolition scene continues to play out at Halsted Street and Chicago Avenue in West Town, as Brandenburg Industrial Services reduces the former newspaper-printing plant to rubble.
Demolition permits are in place for two properties in Edison Park in anticipation of a new residential development along North Northwest Highway. Two buildings that comprised the former M.J. Suerth Funeral Home, at 6750 and 6752 North Northwest Highway, received demo permits from the City of Chicago on October 24.
Partial demolition of the former W. C. Reebie and Brother Storage building at 5035 North Broadway in Uptown has left only the rearmost portion of the structure still standing. The gutted skeleton of the five-floor building is all that remains, and even that has gaping holes in the roof and back wall, exposing it to the sky. What remains of this partial demo will be used as office spaces and to anchor the forthcoming development.
1130 South Wabash Avenue in the South Loop is close to being completely demolished. All five levels, and the basement, are still visible, but only at the rear of the structure. The rest has been reduced to rubble and piles of scrap.
At 3456 North Claremont Avenue in North Center, a two-unit frame residence has been surrounded by demolition fencing, after having just been sold this summer. According to real estate website Zillow, the home, built in 1892, sold in September for $625,000.
